At 16:50, July 31, Beijing time, a 37-year-old weightlifter Lv Xiaojun won the men's weightlifting 81 kg champion at the Tokyo Olympics!
In the first half of the game, Lv Xiaojun successfully challenged 170kg in the third snatch, leading his main opponent by 5kg. In addition, Lv Xiaojun successfully lifted 204 kg for the second in the clean and jerk link, with a total score of 374 kg, setting a new Olympic record!
The father's enlightenment coach and nephew of Lu Xiaojun in Qianjiang, Hubei also witnessed his highlight moment. My nephew said that it was not easy for my uncle along the way and suffered a lot.
Accompanied by weightlifting for half a lifetime, Lv Xiaojun is the oldest active weightlifter in the history of weightlifting in China. At the age of 37, he still maintains a vigorous fighting spirit and a high level of state. He has won worldwide applause and is known as the "Military God".
From rural children to weightlifters
On July 27, 1987, Lu Xiaojun was born in Luyuan Village, Wangchang Town, Qianjiang City, Hubei Province. Like many boys, he is a bit mischievous, climbed trees, and digs out bird nests; and a few good buddies, you will live with us today, and I will live with yours tomorrow. Mother Wang Aiping told a reporter from Wuhan Morning News that her son occasionally fights and can win, "is the eldest brother in the village", but in general, this is a sensible and obedient child.
If you had to find something different from Lu Xiaojun, his parents would think of the same scene. It happened when the son was about ten years old. The village of Luyin on the bank of the Han River had not been connected to tap water. The villagers needed to pick water from the pond. One day, the son picked up a bucket of water from the pond, which surprised the parents-in the village,No child of the same age as his son has such strength.
However, it will be over after this. Both Lu's parents are farmers, and their expectations of their son are very simple: it is enough to grow up healthy and support themselves. They never thought that their son would go to the world stage in the future and become a world champion.
In elementary school, Lu Xiaojun's athletic talent has already appeared. In a town sports meeting, he easily won the first place in the 200-meter sprint competition, so he was recruited from the village elementary school to Wangchang Town Primary School. He attended classes during the day and trained after school in the afternoon.
The turn of fate occurred in 1997. Lv Xiaojun represented Wangchang Town to participate in the city's sports games and won the sixth place in the 200m race. He once recalled to the media, “In the first half of the 50-meter run, he ran very fast. I suspect that after 100 meters, his physical strength began to slowly decline. Endurance, endurance (not enough). Just explosive power. ."
A pair of eyes spotted Lv Xiaojun. He is Lv Xiaojun's enlightenment coach and Deng Minghu of Qianjiang Sports School.
On July 30, Deng Minghu told the Wuhan Morning News reporter that he was recruiting students at the sports meeting and noticed Lv Xiaojun. "This kid is like this. Comprehensive evaluation, he is very explosive, and his body is very suitable for weightlifting, because his shoulders are very wide. (lifting weights) shoulders should be open."
So the game is over , He called Lu Xiaojun over and wanted to test his explosive power again, so he drew a line and asked him to do a standing long jump. Lv Xiaojun recalled later that he did not jump over the first jump.Just step on the line. He followed the coach's tone, "You kidn't, give me a good jump." This time, he jumped over. The coach said, go lift weights with me.
In this way, in April 1997, Lv Xiaojun left the village and took a bumpy shuttle bus to Qianjiang Sports School 30 kilometers away. He went all the way and entered the Hubei Provincial Team in 1999, the Tianjin Weightlifting Team in 2002, and the National Team in 2003. The road went wider and wider, and he walked towards his own world of weightlifting.
Lv Xiaojun’s card when he was in junior high school Photographed by Qin Yuyu, reporter of Wuhan Morning News
"I'm not tired, I like this journey to the world is not easy" _h1132span. According to a report by Xinhuanet in 2012, in order to make his son feel at ease doing sports training, Lu Shuailiang and his wife got up early and were greedy for the dark. The family contracted more and more land. At most, the couple planted more than 30 acres of land. The livelihood of a family depends entirely on the harvest on these lands. Even so, because the mother is ill, the family is still unsustainable.
Deng Minghu told the Wuhan Morning News reporter that Lv Xiaojun had the idea of giving up due to poor family economic conditions. During a holiday in 2001, he decided to work to support his family and ran transport with his uncle.
But the love for weightlifting in his heart is still there, the flame has not gone out. Two months after the sports car, he and his father went to Deng Minghu's house and asked whether this road should continue. Deng Minghu felt sorry for Lu Xiaojun’s giving up. He told Lu Shuailiang that he had mastered all the skills and abilities that Xiaojun should master. “It’s like climbing a peak. It’s halfway through. If you work hard, you can reach the top. If you give up, you will come down.”
Lv Xiaojun returned to the training ground.He didn't know it at that time. To prevent him from worrying, his father borrowed 3,000 yuan from someone without telling him, and paid 300 yuan in interest for two months.
Later, the country began to implement rural tax and fee reform , and abolished agricultural tax , began to issue grain subsidies, their lives gradually enriched, Lv Xiaojun also won on his own weightlifting road. The better the results come.
Now that Lv Xiaojun has left Qianjiang Sports School for more than 20 years, Deng Minghu has kept in touch with him. He told the Wuhan Morning News reporter that Lu Xiaojun was too young when he first arrived at the sports school, and he has not clearly revealed the talents and qualities that people will admire in the future.
But he remembers clearly that Lv Xiaojun has a big characteristic and can endure hardship. Lifting weights is very hard. He often frays his hands and hurts his collarbone, but Lu Xiaojun has never called pain and tiredness. Many times, his hands were worn to the point where he shed a lot of blood, and he remained silent, pulled the shoulder straps over and wrapped them around his hands, and continued to practice.
Deng Minghu Photographed by Wuhan Morning News reporter Qin Yuyu
Mother Wang Aiping recalled that there was a time when her son came home from vacation and his clavicle was injured. She looked very distressed and asked if her son was tired. The son replied, "I'm not tired, I like it".
Father Lu Shuailiang also said that his son always reports good news but not bad news. He learned from the coaching office and his son’s conversations with other people that his son felt that he had come from the countryside and his family conditions were not good, so he worked harder than others. “If someone else practices for an hour a day, he will practice for an hour and a half. , He said so.
late bloomer
In 2003, 19-year-old Lv Xiaojun was selected into the national weightlifting team. In May of the following year, he won the World Youth Weightlifting Championships in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. When I was really excited. The first time I felt that I represented China and won a little honor for the country. "Recalling the scene of winning the championship, he told the media.
This win gave Lu Xiaojun a great encouragement. Since then, Lu Xiaojun's training has worked harder. However, injuries followed. His merciless torture caused injuries to his knees, shoulders, and waist. In 2005, he started treatment because of the injury. The pain made him frustrated. He did not continue training and spent two or three years. Until 2008, he Originally intended to submit a retirement report, the coach asked him to participate in the 2009 National Games, and then insisted on insisting, and he agreed. Coach Yu Jie. This time, he obeyed the coach's arrangement and moved to the 77 kg class.
"I admire Mr. Yu Jie very much. "Deng Minghu said that Lv Xiaojun still had some psychological baggage at the time. Yu Jie kept talking to him, chatting, and constantly enlightening him. Later Lv Xiaojun figured it out. He has good quality and can get twice the result with half the effort after training.
2009 , Lv Xiaojun lived up to expectations and won the 77 kg gold medal in the National Games, and then represented the Chinese team in the 77th World Weightlifting Championships held in South Korea Gaoyang, breaking the two world records of snatch and clean and jerk, and broke the total result with 378 kg. World record.
At that time his opponent was the champion of the 2008 Olympic Games.South Korean player Shi Jae Hyuk. However, Lv Xiaojun won at Shi Zaihe's home court, which made him famous in the first battle.
After that, he was almost invincible. In 2010, he won the clean and jerk champion, snatch runner-up and overall performance runner-up at the World Weightlifting Championships; in 2011, he won the International Weightlifting Federation Super Grand Prix Championship; the Paris World Championships snatch, clean and jerk, and overall results champion.
Time came to 2012 London Olympics . Coach Yu Jie does not live in the Olympic Village. Before the game, he makes good soup every day and takes the subway to bring it to Lu Xiaojun. On August 2, Lu Xiaojun broke the world record for snatch with 175 kilograms, and at the same time broke the world record with a total score of 379 kilograms and won the London Olympic champion. He was grateful to the coach and happily picked up the coach Yu Jie.
, Qianjiang City, Hubei Province, thousands of miles away, his parents were in tears. They said: "This is a gold medal drawn from the ground."
During the post-match interview, Lv Xiaojun smiled with tears, "Too difficult, too bitter." At this time, he was 28 years old.
Lv Xiaojun’s home is full of his photos. Photographed by Wuhan Morning News reporter Qin Yuyu
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, and other people’s physical exercises. It is a contest with one's own body, a test of the coordination of the body's muscles. At this moment of exertion, the combination of skill, balance, will, strength, and speed, people call weightlifting "the art of one second."
As the world record holder, Lv Xiaojun's innate strength and talent, textbook-like technical movements fully demonstrated the art of weightlifting to the world. What's more commendable is that he is still present and is the oldest active weightlifter in the history of Chinese weightlifting.
73 kg weightlifting champion Shi Zhiyong praised: "Lv Xiaojun is known as the'shen of the army' in our weightlifting world. He is over 30 years old and breaks the world record every time he goes out to compete. The level is gone, so he is called the god of the army."
From 2013 to 2015, Lv Xiaojun hardly let the World Championships, Asian Championships, Asian Games weightlifting champions of 77 kg side by side. However, in 2016, he was defeated at the Rio Olympics and placed second. At a press conference held after the game, he said, "I will come back again, I will return to the world arena, and I will compete with him again."
He is with his father and Deng Minghu It is mentioned that he lost the gold medal in 16 years and wants to get it back from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
This is not easy for an older athlete in his thirties. In particular, the sudden new crown epidemic caused the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed for one year, which suddenly increased the difficulty for him. "The delay has really had a big impact on him. (In the face of) the increase in age and the decline in physical function, how to maintain this state." Coach Yu Jie said.
Lv Xiaojun himself can also feel, "When I was young, I might not feel very tired. Now that I get older, the gap in physical fitness and muscle elasticity,Pulling and core strength are not as good as before. "For this reason, the time he spends on rehabilitation has gradually increased.
Nevertheless, Yu Jie believes that Lv Xiaojun is still in a good state, "His thinking is firmer than before." I like to ponder this".
This reminds people that the previous year, at the 2019 World Championships, his waist injury was caused by the game. After returning to the backcourt, he has been on ice for treatment.
Many people thought he was going to give up the game, but he did not expect him to return to the court. "At the time I thought that he loved weightlifting too much, and I liked the feeling of this game too much. For a person of my age, no If I am willing to give up every game, I just want to show my abilities to the audience on stage. "
Wuhan Morning News reporter Qin Yuyu sent from Qianjiang, Hubei
Intern Jiang Ruiying also contributed to this article (please contact reporters to break the news
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