He Zi was born on December 10, 1990 in an ordinary family in Nanning, Guangxi.
He Zi's parents were ordinary workers, and they had a son before He Zi was born, but unfortunately this brother died before He Zi was born.
When she was four years old, He Zi's mother also died of cancer, and since then, He Zi has been dependent on her father for her life, and has experienced unparalleled blessings and disasters.
When He Zi was 6 years old, the gymnastics coach of Nanning Sports School came to her candy paper factory kindergarten to select outstanding students, and He Zi was selected.
He Zi and her father were very happy about this, but after training at the Nanning Sports School for half a year, the coach tactfully told He Zi's father a message: there will be no need to train again from tomorrow.
When Ho Zi was young, she didn't understand why the coach would say this, but her father understood that the coach was actually implying that his daughter had been eliminated and was not suitable for gymnastics training.
Just as the father and daughter fell silent at the gate of the sports school, a coach came up and asked, "Are the children interested in diving?"This coach is He Zi's enlightenment coach Pan Fenglian.
He Zi's father and daughter did not answer immediately, but He Zi's father noticed a smile on the corner of his daughter's mouth, so he immediately understood his daughter's intentions.
He Zi did not choose to leave the Nanning Sports School, but directly switched to the diving project, from the gymnastics project to the diving project.
When He Zi first practiced diving Xi, she encountered a big problem: she had never been exposed to swimming before and was completely a "landlubber".
Therefore, Coach Pan Fenglian tied a rope around He Zi's waist at the beginning and asked her to stand by Xi the pool and practice the most basic movements. However, even so, He Zi still felt very scared. When she got out of the water, she sank directly to the bottom of the pool and had to choke on a few mouthfuls of water.
He Zi's father accompanied her to the swimming pool every day for training, and seeing his daughter's performance like this, he gave He Zi a lot of courage and strength. She slowly tried to get into the water, gradually learned how to swim, and mastered the swimming technique in just one month.
Not only did He Zi develop a strong interest in diving, but at this age, most children were still coquettish in their parents' arms and mischievous at school.
He Zi's arrangement after school every day is like this: she holds a piece of bread, pours boiling water and mineral water, and then hurries to the diving hall of the Nanning Sports Brigade for training, which will not end until ** o'clock in the evening.
Nanning Sports School is actually facing closure, so He Zi's diving career is coming to an end.
The Shenzhen Sports Brigade is preparing to set up a diving team, and the Shenzhen sports decision-making department has taken active action to select young talents suitable for special training in diving inside and outside the province.
At the age of 9, He Zi became one of the first six members of the Shenzhen diving team.
After entering the professional team, the amount of training was several times that of before, and He Zi would cry after training almost every day, then fall asleep exhausted, and then wake up and devote himself to the next round of training, which lasted for several months.
He Zi's father stayed with her throughout this time until she gradually adapted to the training life and returned to Nanning to continue working.
Just when he was adapting to high-intensity training and improving his strength, the Shenzhen diving team broke up.
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He Zi stood at the crossroads again, and after careful consideration, she resolutely decided to stick to her diving career and joined the Tsinghua University diving team.
At that time, the head coach of the Tsinghua diving team was Yu Fen, who served as the deputy head coach of the Chinese diving team and cultivated world champions such as Fu Mingxia and Sun Shuwei.
The Chinese diving team was able to achieve such outstanding results at the end of the 20th century, largely thanks to the hard work of the head coach Xu Yiming and deputy head coach Yu Fen at the time.
Under the leadership of these two people, the Chinese diving team has gradually become the hegemon of the world diving community. However, due to a number of other reasons, both Xu Yiming and Yu Fen were forced to leave the national team in 1998. Ordinary coach Zhou Jihong suddenly became the leader of the Chinese diving team, and at the same time, the Chinese diving team also changed from the previous head coach responsibility system to the team leader responsibility system.
After Yu Fen left the national team diving team, she was invited to Tsinghua University to form the Tsinghua diving team, including Fu Mingxia, Xiong Qingqing and others were members of the team.
This shows that the diving team of Tsinghua University is extraordinary, and the reason why He Zi can be favored by them also proves that she is definitely the best among her peers.
Due to the unsolvable contradiction between Yu Fen and Zhou Jihong, the national team did not allow the members of the Tsinghua diving team to join, which actually cut off the development prospects of the Tsinghua diving team.
He Zi later had no choice but to return to the Shenzhen diving team again, and was finally successfully selected for the Guangdong diving team.
He Zi, at the age of 16, began her career as a national team diver in 2006 with Hoon as her mentor.
Before Hu Enyong joined the national team, he heard many people's comments about He Zi, and they most often said that it was "difficult, full of energy, and strong control", but no one ever mentioned He Zi's beautiful movements.
Although He Zi is talented in diving, his foundation is not solid and his movements are not graceful enough. As the old saying goes, "jade doesn't make a weapon without a jade", she needed a coach who could make up for her shortcomings, and Hu Enyong happened to take on that important role.
The Chinese diving team had many talented children, but most of them failed to make it through. This is because these children are eager to achieve results and end up being too eager for quick results.
After entering the national team, He Zi also felt the situation, because there was a clear gap between her and her teammates.
He Zi was fortunate to meet her mentor Hu Enyong, who stopped He Zi's behavior of wanting to rush and suggested that she lay a solid foundation first to make her movements more elegant, so that her grades would naturally improve.
A year after joining the national team, He Zi finally won silver medals in the single and double 3m springboard at the Asian Games, and became the women's 1m springboard champion at the 2007 World Championships.
He Zi was competing in the one-meter springboard at the time, and her difficulty coefficient was far higher than that of most female athletes. This championship also allowed the Chinese diving team to win the women's singles championship in the one-meter springboard event at the World Championships again after 13 years.
Because of He Zi's outstanding performance and dazzling achievements, people gradually began to praise her as "Guo Jingjing's best person".
He Zi's performance led many to believe that she could compete in the Beijing Olympics, but just a few months later, that all changed dramatically.
In the women's 3-meter board preliminaries of the Beijing Olympic Diving Trials, He Zi and Li Ting, the double diving champion of the Athens Olympic Games, competed on the same field. In the second round of the competition, the two performed the "backward somersault half a week flexion" action.
He Zi and Li Ting's movements in the air were completely synchronized, echoing each other like a mirror, but in opposite directions. This made the audience very engrossed in the game, and it was not until the live announcer announced the "zero score" that everyone realized that He Zi had made a mistake.
It was only nine months since she won the World Championships, but she went from a high-profile future star to an athlete who didn't score a single point in the competition, so she missed out on the opportunity to compete in the Beijing Olympics.
He Zi was originally scheduled to compete in the women's 1m springboard, but before the 2009 World Championships in Rome, her coach suddenly decided to let her replace Wu Minxia in the women's 3m springboard competition.
He Zi won 0With a gap of 2 points, he ranked third and successfully advanced to the final. However, in the final, she made a mistake in her fourth dive, which resulted in fourth place and missing out on a medal.
He Zi is now nearly 20 years old, and in diving, the older you are, the less dominant it is, and many of the team members achieved results before the age of 20.
The only achievement He Zi could boast of at that time was winning the one-meter springboard world championship. What makes her anxious is that although she has always been pinned on the high hopes of "Guo Jingjing's ** person", after Guo Jingjing retired, she was not up to this important task.
Of course, Wu Minxia is 5 years older than He Zi, and she has not yet retired, so He Zi has not yet had the opportunity to lead.
He Zi and Wu Minxia won the women's double 3m springboard event at the 14th World Swimming Championships in 2011, but in the single 3m springboard final, despite being injured, she still lost to Wu Minxia and eventually finished second.
However, in the next step of the 26th Congress, He Zi won the women's double and single three-meter springboard championships in one fell swoop, fully proving her indisputable strength in the three-meter springboard event.
With these performances, Ho Zi successfully qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
He Zi first won the women's three-meter springboard double with her partner Wu Minxia at the London Olympics, and then she lost to Wu Minxia in the women's singles three-meter springboard final.
In this Olympic Games, the relationship between He Zi and teammate Qin Kai was known to the public for the first time, which is also worth mentioning.
In the men's three-meter board final, Qin Kai missed the gold medal and sat alone on the sidelines in frustration. Seeing the scene, He Zi walked up to Qin Kai without hesitation, hugged him tightly, and whispered comfort and encouragement in his ear, Qin Kai burst into tears.
Qin Kai and He Zi have actually been in love for many years before this, and the two have shown their affection in a low-key manner on social **, but they were not famous enough at that time to attract everyone's attention.
On Valentine's Day in 2011, Qin Kai first released a photo of himself wearing purple short-sleeved **, sending everyone happy Valentine's Day wishes. Soon after, He Zi also posted that he was wearing the same short-sleeved **.
He Zi updated the news in May 2011, saying that "Fast and Furious 5" is really exciting.
Qin Kai just updated the news, saying that he just went to watch "Fast and Furious 5", and said that it was good, and recommended everyone to watch it. This post was posted in the last ten minutes.
Once the relationship between the two is **, looking back on the past, you will find that they are already a couple.
Although Wu won the women's single 3m springboard title at the London Olympics, she was already 27 years old at the time, and many thought she might consider retiring after the Games.
The 22-year-old He Zi is regarded by everyone as a new generation of "diving queen", because predecessors such as Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing have basically chosen to retire at this age.
In 2013, at the 12th National Games, He Zi won the gold medal in the women's single 3-meter springboard, making her the third player after Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia to achieve the "Grand Slam" gold medal in the Olympics, World Championships and National Games.
In the same year, He Zi won the title of Best Female Diver from FINA.
In 2014, she won the women's single 3m springboard at the Incheon Asian Games and the women's single and double 3m springboard at the 2016 FINA Diving World Series in Dubai, Windsor and Kazan.
He Zi's excellent results in the three-meter springboard competition proved her absolute strength in this event, and she successfully represented the Chinese diving team at the Rio Olympics.
Wu Minxia is already in her thirties, but she has not yet announced her retirement and has successfully qualified for the Olympic Games. However, in the women's singles 3m springboard event, she did not show much competitiveness.
He Zi was the favorite to win the championship at the time, but lost to her younger sister Shi Tingmao in the women's single 3-meter springboard final, and won the Olympic women's single 3-meter springboard runner-up again.
Despite losing the championship, He Zi received a surprise at this Olympics, which came from her boyfriend Qin Kai.
After the award ceremony, Qin Kai walked slowly to He Zi and suddenly proposed to her. Since this was a temporary decision, He Zi did not anticipate this situation at all.
Her joy and excitement were palpable, and it was because they had been in love for years. In the face of Qin Kai's marriage proposal, He Zi nodded without hesitation.
Qin Kai's proposal to He Zi was successfully on the hot search due to the popularity of the Olympic Games, and in addition to blessings, it also caused some different voices.
Some netizens think that He Zi should marry a rich man like her senior sisters Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing, but Qin Kai and He Zi are both from ordinary families.
For a person like He Zi, who lost her mother at a young age, she may pay more attention to family harmony and the relationship between the two.
He Zi and Qin Kai held their wedding on June 25, 2017, in Qin Kai's hometown of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Four months later, they welcomed their daughter "Little Box", which is the crystallization of their love.
After He Zi and Qin Kai gave birth to a child, they also officially announced the news of their retirement on social **. Now, He Zi has begun to live a life of husband and children.
He Zi and her husband Qin Kai co-founded a training institute again in 2019, which can be regarded as a collaboration between the couple to start a business together.
In the eyes of many people, marrying into a wealthy family may be the most ideal choice. However, He Zi and Qin Kai's reputation is already loud enough, and they don't worry about food and clothing. Therefore, the two pay more attention to the process of working together.
I think that the life of Qin Kai and He Zi may be better and more real, and netizens may be more envious of the love between Guo Jingjing and Huo Qigang.
May He Zi and Qin Kai be happy in the future, and bless them two!