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Yuan Weimin
Yuan Weimin is a well-known meritorious coach of the women's volleyball team at home and abroad. He once led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the "three consecutive championships". After resigning as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Yuan Weimin served as deputy director of the National Sports Commission, and was later promoted to director of the State Sports General Administration, making great contributions to the development of my country's sports industry.
Yuan Weimin once led the Chinese women's volleyball team to sweep through thousands of troops and defeat all the invincible opponents in the world. However, behind each gold medal, his tears and pain condensed. At that time, he lived in the sports team and was alienated from his wife and children. His son Yuan Li did not call him "dad" for six years.
After retirement, Yuan Weimin transformed into an ordinary husband and father, making up for his guilt for his wife and children with patience and love...
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Yuan Weimin During his tenure as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team from 1976 to 1984, he led the team to play 250 international games and won 223 games. 27 games and 27 losses. Such a brilliant record shocked the world.
Yuan Weimin and the women's volleyball team members
During his time in charge of the Chinese women's volleyball team, he led the team to win the 1981 Women's Volleyball World Cup , the 1982 Women's Volleyball World Championships , and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, creating the glory of the Chinese women's volleyball team's "three consecutive championships".
Yuan Weimin was the first Chinese coach to win the world championship in collective events at that time, and is also the only Chinese coach to have won three consecutive collective event championships. The brilliant achievements he led the Chinese women's volleyball team to achieve have an influence beyond the sport itself. He is a hero of China.
In October 2007, Yuan Weimin was awarded the Outstanding Coach Award by the Volleyball Hall of Fame in the United States, becoming the second Chinese to receive this honor (the other was his beloved disciple Lang Ping).
On July 8, 1939, Yuan Weimin was born in the urban-rural fringe area of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. His parents were both illiterate vegetable farmers. Yuan Weimin has five brothers and sisters, and he is the youngest child in the family.
Yuan Weimin's father was kind and simple. He planted vegetables in the fields from morning to night and also built nets for fishing. His skin is tanned from working in the fields all year round.
Young man Yuan Weimin
Yuan Weimin's mother goes to the streets every day to sell vegetables, and goes home to raise chickens and pigs. She is a leader inside and outside. My parents just immersed themselves in work and have never even been to Shanghai, which is just around the corner.
Yuan Weimin's brothers and sisters are not well educated, and none of them has gone to college. The whole family pins their hopes on Yuan Weimin. From such an ordinary family of vegetable farmers, no one expected that a gold medal coach of the national women's volleyball team would emerge in the future.
After graduating from junior high school, Yuan Weimin was admitted to Suzhou Middle School, which is a key middle school in the country. Yuan Weimin is talented and has excellent grades in mathematics, physics and chemistry. His goal is to take the Tsinghua exam.
When he was in his third year of high school, a People's Liberation Army aviation school came to Suzhou Middle School to recruit pilots. Yuan Weimin passed the initial physical examination and political examination, but during the reexamination, the doctor found that Yuan Weimin had mild arthritis, so he was rejected.
Then the coach from the provincial sports department came again, and the school physical education teacher recommended Yuan Weimin to the coach. At that time, his height reached 1.80 meters. Mao Abao, the basketball coach of the provincial physical training class, brought Yuan Weimin to the provincial capital Nanjing.
When Yuan Weimin and Chen Zhonghe were divided into classes, the basketball team, handball team, and track and field team all rushed to recruit Yuan Weimin. In the end, Jiangsu Provincial Volleyball Team coach Zhang Ran believed that Yuan Weimin was most suitable for playing volleyball, so he recruited him to the provincial volleyball team. It was 1958 and Yuan Weimin was 19 years old.
Yuan Weimin plays the role of setter on the court. He is not tall, but has outstanding volleyball talent and can learn the moves quickly. While playing in the provincial team, he also studied at Nanjing Institute of Physical Education.
In 1962, Yuan Weimin was selected for the Chinese men's volleyball team and served as the main setter. At that time, the Chinese men's volleyball team was very hopeful to achieve good results in the world volleyball world. Yuan Weimin trained particularly hard.
During a training session, when Yuan Weimin flew to save the ball, his sweat dripped on the ground and the floor slipped. As a result, his mouth hit the ground hard, one of his front teeth fell out, and the nerve of the tooth was exposed.
It was not until the end of training that Yuan Weimin went to the hospital to treat his wounds.
From left: Zou Zhihua, Zhang Ran, Yuan Weimin
Two months later, Yuan Weimin saved a dangerous goal in a game and knocked out a front tooth. Yuan Weimin, who was in his 20s, had to have two dentures .
In 1964, at the International Volleyball Invitational Tournament held in Riga, the capital of Latvia, the Chinese men's volleyball team achieved third place.
Just as Yuan Weimin and his team members were preparing to help the Chinese men's volleyball team climb to the top of the world, the special era began. The Chinese men's volleyball team was disbanded and Yuan Weimin returned to the Jiangsu Provincial Team.
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In 1964, Yuan Weimin fell in love with his girlfriend Zheng Huying, who was a member of the Chinese women's volleyball team. She later returned to Jiangsu Women's Volleyball Team due to ligament injury.
Under the introduction of former national team teammate Zou Zhihua, Yuan Weimin and Zheng Huying went on a blind date in Beijing's Temple of Heaven Park. Unexpectedly, as soon as they met, the two fell in love.
Early years Yuan Weimin (middle)
In 1970, the national men's volleyball team was reorganized. Yuan Weimin returned to the team and served as captain of the Chinese men's volleyball team. At this time, Zheng Huying had retired and was coaching the Jiangsu Women's Volleyball Team.
After falling in love for 10 years, Yuan Weimin and Zheng Huying got married in a low-key manner in Nanjing.
In 1974, 35-year-old Yuan Weimin officially retired and was arranged to serve as the head coach of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team. At that time, the Chinese women's volleyball team was a third-rate team in the world. When the Japanese club women's volleyball team came to visit, the Chinese women's volleyball team couldn't even beat it and lost miserably.
This deeply hurt the hearts of Yuan Weimin and his team members. He vowed to lead the Chinese women's volleyball team to a turnaround.
In 1975, Zheng Huying became pregnant and Yuan Weimin was not around, so she had to take care of herself. When the fetus was more than 6 months old, she still led the team in training with a pregnant belly.
Yuan Weimin, his wife and their son
It was very inconvenient to make phone calls at that time, so Yuan Weimin had to write a letter to greet his wife and apologize to her.
Zheng Huying replied to her husband in the letter: I am an athlete, not so delicate, and can take care of myself. You play with peace of mind and strive to welcome the arrival of our baby with good results.
Not long after, Zheng Huying gave birth to his son Yuan Li in Nanjing. It was not until the day his wife gave birth that Yuan Weimin rushed to his wife's side.
At that time, Zheng Huying was living in Nanjing with her son, and the couple lived separately. In order to make it easier for Yuan Weimin to work with peace of mind, Zheng Huying was transferred to work in the Group Department of the National Sports Commission in 1976, and the family of three was finally reunited.
Yuan Weimin selected 12 team members, with an average age of 20 years old and an average height of 1.76 meters. The main attacker Zhang Rongfang is the shortest in the team, only 1.74 meters, shorter than the setter.
But Zhang Rongfang has comprehensive skills and is good at offense and defense, so Yuan Weimin trained her as his main force. The Chinese women's volleyball team is technically weak and only finished 14th in the 1974 World Championships.
Yuan Weimin and women's volleyball team member Liang Yan
Lang Ping and Chen Zhaodi (right)
In order to make a comeback, Yuan Weimin used "devil training" and often made his team members cry during practice. During extra training in the evening, as long as one team member fails to meet the requirements, all team members must follow suit for additional training.
Sometimes there was a lot of crying in the training hall, but after the crying, the players would jump and roll on the ground with tears in their eyes. When the players feel resentful, they want to confront the coach.
Once Yuan Weimin wore a new cashmere vest. After sweating while leading the team in training, he took off the cashmere vest and hung it on the wall. As a result, Chen Zhaodi put on the cashmere vest and rolled it on the ground intentionally, causing a big hole in the cashmere vest.
After Yuan Weimin found out, he didn't ask who broke it and acted as if nothing happened.
Going home at night, Zheng Huying felt very distressed: Why did your cashmere vest get torn on the first day you wore it? Yuan Weimin said casually: I accidentally broke it. Zheng Huying did not pursue the question further.
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Young man Yuan Weimin
At that time, Yuan Weimin went out at 6 o'clock every morning and had to be busy until late at night before returning home. His son could not see him at all. His son was asleep when he came home, and he had not gotten up when he went to work in the morning. Therefore, his son had not been close to Yuan Weimin since he was a child.
Once, Zheng Huying had a cold and fever. The training center was very close to home, but Yuan Weimin did not go home to take his wife to the hospital. At a young age, my son accompanied his mother to the hospital, and both mother and son shed tears along the way.
From then on, Yuan Li stopped calling Yuan Weimin his father and was very cold towards his father. Yuan Weimin felt very sad and felt that he owed his wife and children too much.
In 1977, Yuan Weimin led the Chinese women's volleyball team to visit Japan. Japanese TV "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" column commented on the Chinese women's volleyball team's match against the Japanese team, saying that the Chinese team was still half a step away from the highest level in the world. Mr. Okada, a senior in the Japanese volleyball world, gave the answer, saying that the 12 members of the Chinese team have comprehensive skills, but they lack a decisive attacker.
This deeply touched Yuan Weimin: Yes, to win the world championship, the team must have a world-class super heavy gunner. So Yuan Weimin selected players from the local team and discovered Lang Ping in Beijing Women's Volleyball Team .
Yuan Weimin and Lang Ping
The then 17-year-old Lang Ping was already 1.84 meters tall, but his physical fitness and skills were not very good, and he had thin skin and tender flesh.
To cultivate an excellent athlete in the volleyball world, it takes 3 years to lay the foundation, 5 years to become a talent, and 7 years to become a master. But time waits for no one, Yuan Weimin made an exception and used Lang Ping.
As soon as Lang Ping joined the team, Yuan Weimin trained her as the main attacker, replacing Yang Xi who was at his peak at the time.
Half a year later, Yuan Weimin led the Chinese women's volleyball team to visit Japan, with more wins than losses. Japanese media reports: Lang Ping disrupted the Japanese team's formation, and her appearance has greatly improved the level of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
In the 1981 Women's Volleyball World Cup, Yuan Weimin won the best coach
A group photo of the Chinese women's volleyball team that won the world championship for the first time in November 1981.
In November 1981, the 3rd Women's Volleyball World Cup was held in Japan. Yuan Weimin led the Chinese team to win seven games and seven victories. Win the championship.
At that time, China, Japan, and the United States were the three strongest teams in the world. The Chinese women's volleyball team's semi-finals with the United States team and the finals with the Japanese team both lasted for 5 games, and they fought fiercely for more than two hours and finally won by a narrow margin.
After the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship, Lang Ping became the subject of research by teams around the world. They shouted the slogan "If you want to defeat the Chinese team, you must first control Lang Ping."
However, Lang Ping is still in the world of volleyball, and opponents can rarely restrain her.
In September 1982, the 9th World Women's Volleyball Championship was held in Peru . In the preliminaries, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to the American team 0-3, and the players were under tremendous pressure.
On September 25, 1982, at the 9th World Women's Volleyball Championship, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship.
On the car back to the station, Yuan Weimin took turns doing work for the team members. As a result, he was too tired, suffered from motion sickness, nausea, and vomiting. The
players did not let him down. Since then, they have defeated all opponents 6 times 3-0 and won "two consecutive championships". Zheng Huying was watching the game at home. When the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship, she burst into tears in front of the TV.
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In 1983, the Chinese women's volleyball team underwent a major blood change. Cao Huiying, Sun Jinfang and other 7 old players left the team. The team was supplemented by fresh blood such as Jiang Ying, Hou Yuzhu, Su Huijuan.
Due to the large number of new players, the level of the Chinese women's volleyball team suddenly dropped. In order to achieve the goal of "three consecutive championships", Yuan Weimin simply lived in the sports team. In fact, his home is only a ten-minute walk away from the training center, but Yuan Weimin hardly returns home once a month.
Yuan Weimin
He suffers from chronic bronchitis. He has a severe cough and is reluctant to go to the hospital. Only a few days before the Spring Festival of 1984, Yuan Weimin led the team to Chenzhou, Hunan for winter training.
Zheng Huying celebrated the New Year with her son at home, and she and her son ate the New Year’s Eve dinner. Because Yuan Weimin was not at home, the mother and son were not in the mood to have a reunion dinner.
Before the Spring Festival was over, Yuan Li wrote a letter complaining about his father, saying that his father had brought loneliness and desolation to him and his mother, and that his father valued volleyball more than his family.
Yuan Weimin read the letter from his son, and tears welled up unknowingly.
In March of this year, Yuan Li suffered from acute appendicitis and was undergoing surgery in the hospital. Yuan Weimin did not accompany his son during the surgery. His son was hospitalized for a week and he did not visit him. It wasn't until the day his son was discharged from the hospital that Yuan Weimin used his lunch break to go to the hospital to pick up his son and take him home.
From left: Wu Dan, Zhang Rongfang, Liang Yan
Yuan Li has resentment in his heart and behaves very coldly towards his father. Yuan Weimin wanted to tease his son into saying something, but Yuan Li refused to speak. After sending his son home, Yuan Weimin rushed back to the team to lead training before his butt was still hot.
In July 1984, the 23rd Olympic Games was held in Los Angeles. In the group match on August 3, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1 to 3 to the United States team, but the cumulative total score was 47:46, and the Chinese team scored 1 more point.
The failure of the Chinese women's volleyball team was mainly due to Lang Ping's abnormal performance. She blamed herself very much. While eating at the athletes' restaurant, Lang Ping stepped aside with his plate, and Zhang Rongfang immediately followed.
Before Zhang Rongfang opened her mouth, Lang Ping's tears fell on the plate. The two of them had no intention of eating and sat on the lawn outside. Immediately after, Yuan Weimin also went out, and other team members also gathered around.
Yuan Weimin gives Lang Ping a job: Your opponent has broken down every move you make, and the human brain and computer combine to deal with you. How can you not make mistakes? Being able to take it up and put it down is the demeanor of a general. If a person dares to make demands of himself, he must fight the ball below.
Hou Yuzhu
On August 7, 1984, at the Los Angeles Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship, achieving "three consecutive championships"
As a result, Lang Ping calmed down. In the subsequent games, Lang Ping was invincible and regained the glory of " iron hammer ".
In the semi-finals, the Chinese women's volleyball team entered the final after defeating the Japanese team 3-0.
html On August 8, the Chinese and American women's volleyball teams competed for the gold medal. The Chinese team led 14 to 9 in the first game, but was chased by the US team to a 14-all tie. The competition on the court became fierce.At the critical moment, Yuan Weimin replaced his new player Hou Yuzhu to serve. Hou Yuzhu hit two long-distance overhand floaters and scored two points. After the Chinese women's volleyball team won the first game 16-14, the American women's volleyball team 's mentality collapsed. In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the second and third games with a big score, thus achieving the "three consecutive championships."
The team members cried, Yuan Weimin shed tears, and Zheng Huying, who was far away in Beijing, cried uncontrollably.
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Yuan Weimin
After returning to China, Yuan Weimin had a long talk with his son, describing the pressure he had endured in leading the team over the years and his belief in winning glory for the country.
Zheng Huying also taught his son to understand his father, and Yuan Li finally called "Dad". This was the first time in six years that his son called him "dad", and Yuan Weimin burst into tears.
After the women's volleyball team won the "three consecutive championships" in 1984, Yuan Weimin resigned as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team and was appointed deputy director of the National Sports Commission. After that, he still cared about volleyball and contributed to the Chinese women's volleyball team in another way.
Since 1992, Yuan Weimin has successively served as Chairman of the Chinese Football Association, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee, Chairman of the Chinese Sports Science Society, Chairman of the Asian Volleyball Federation, and Deputy Director of the State Sports General Administration. .
Due to working hard when he was young, Yuan Weimin suffered from hypoglycemia. In 1997, the Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was held in Thailand. Yuan Weimin fainted when he came on stage to present the award. After examination, the doctor said he had hypoglycemia.
Yuan Weimin and Lang Ping
After that, Yuan Weimin went out to participate in activities, and Zheng Huying put some sweets in his bag to help him replenish his blood sugar.
Yuan Weimin is dedicated and diligent. Although he has left his job as a first-line volleyball coach, he is still involved in various administrative matters. He only goes back to his hometown to visit his parents once every two or three years, and he never leaves home.
Zheng Huying held up the house by herself, so her hands were particularly rough.
Yuan Li completely understood his father. He didn't complain when his father didn't go to school for parent-teacher meetings. Yuan Li's father did not accompany him during the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination. He understood his father.
In April 2000, Yuan Weimin was appointed director of the State Sports General Administration. At this year's Sydney Olympics, the Chinese sports delegation shocked the world by winning 28 gold medals.
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Yuan Weimin and his wife
In December 2004, 65-year-old Yuan Weimin officially retired. When he was working, he owed too much to his wife and children. Now that he is retired and has nothing to do, Yuan Weimin works hard to make up for his debt to his wife and children.
At home, Yuan Weimin helps his wife with housework, cooking, mopping the floor, cleaning the range hood, and everything else. Yuan Weimin also has strong hands-on skills. In order to save money, he also made his own clothes hangers from beverage bottles.
Whenever he has free time, he and his wife make dumplings and make sauce beef at home, which is both delicious and hygienic. Out of concern for her husband's health, Zheng Huying did not allow him to smoke anymore, and Yuan Weimin really quit smoking.
In 2006, Yuan Weimin's mother-in-law passed away due to illness. He and his wife rushed to Nanjing to deal with the funeral arrangements. Yuan Weimin had a pair of old sneakers that he couldn't bear to throw away. He took them off and asked his wife's uncle to keep them for him, saying that he wouldn't need to buy new ones when he visited Nanjing in the future.
Yuan Weimin's frugal lifestyle has been praised by relatives and friends.
Yuan Weimin
In 2009, Yuan Weimin published his autobiography "Yuan Weimin and the Sports World". The book records Yuan Weimin's 47 years of ups and downs in sports work, as well as his thoughts and summary of Chinese sports.
This book was written word by word by Yuan Weimin. His wife and son were his first readers and helped him correct it.
After the book was published, it caused waves in the sports world, and Yuan Weimin was pushed to the forefront of public opinion. His mood was inevitably gloomy. His wife and son encouraged and comforted him at home, and accompanied him out to play tennis and golf. Yuan Weimin soon became happy again.
Yuan Li worked in film and television culture after graduating from university. After marriage, he had a son and a daughter.
Yuan Weimin did not accompany his son to grow up before, but now he has transplanted his love for his son to his grandchildren. He often visits his son and grandchildren, bringing them gifts and toys every time he goes.
Yuan Weimin’s calligraphy works
Sometimes Yuan Weimin would take his two children home to take care of them. Whenever something happens to Yuan Li and his wife, he just needs to make a phone call and Yuan Weimin will go and pick up the child.
Yuan Weimin loves calligraphy and is a good friend of Fan Zeng, a master of calligraphy and painting. He usually practices calligraphy at home. When his son produced the sports interview column "Contest", the title of the film was inscribed by Yuan Weimin himself.
In 2019, Yuan Weimin is 80 years old. When he was an athlete, he had minimally invasive surgeries on both knees, and half of his meniscus was removed. Because the menisci of both legs are unbalanced, Yuan Weimin walks a little awkwardly.
As long as Yuan Weimin goes out, his son will follow him and help his father go up and downstairs. Yuan Weimin's right heel tendon was ruptured and now he feels a dull pain whenever it rains. His wife Zheng Huying usually gives him massages at home and buys him some medicine to apply.
From left: Lang Ping, Yuan Weimin, Chen Zhong and
In June 2022, Yuan Weimin was 83 years old. He looks good and is energetic. He occasionally goes out to participate in activities. Most of the time he and his wife stay at home practicing calligraphy and doing housework.
On major holidays, Yuan Li would bring his family over to reunite with his parents. In his later years, Yuan Weimin had a peaceful mind and his life was no different from that of an ordinary old man. He was very content.
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