Women s basketball team Liu Qing Three Dynasties Olympic Veteran , married a handsome basketball gu

Women's basketball team Liu Qing "Three Dynasties Olympic Veteran", married a handsome basketball guy after retiring, and her daughter is a women's basketball national player

This legendary woman, with her own struggle and persistence, wrote a sports life full of passion and hard work.

Her story is full of suspense and drama that makes people want to go after all.

Next, let's walk into the world of Liu Qing and learn the story of this legendary woman.

Liu Qing is a high-profile "desperate Saburo" in the first generation of the Chinese women's basketball team, with a height of 188 meters. In the last century.

In the 80s and 90s, Liu Qing dominated the basketball world and had a large group of super fans.

She was born in Shangzhi County, Heilongjiang Province in 1964, and her family is full of giants. Liu Qing's mother is 176 m, father 190 meters, brother 20 meters, and the younger sister Liu Dan is also as high as 188 meters.

In 1977, Liu Qing was only 13 years old, but he was already as high as 168 meters, not only that, but her palms are large, her arms are long, and her whole body is well-proportioned and flexible. Under the recommendation of her physical education teacher, she was successfully admitted to Heilongjiang Provincial Sports School and began to receive professional basketball training.

By 1979, Liu Qing's height soared to 185 meters, attracted the attention of the Heilongjiang Provincial Youth Women's Basketball Team. Half a year later, she was successfully selected for the Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Basketball Team.

In 1980, Liu Qing became a member of the national youth women's basketball team, although due to her young age, she could only play a substitute role.

Liu Qing not only has excellent physical fitness, excellent jumping, and a running height of 310 meters, and she's excellent at grabbing rebounds.

In the autumn of 1980, the national youth women's basketball team and the national women's basketball team had a teaching game, and Liu Qing ran between the courts, almost everywhere.

Her nimble range of movement, steals and blocks, and decisive shooting style all put a lot of pressure on opponents.

During a scramble with an opponent, Liu Qing even caused her nose to crook because of the impact, the pain was unbearable, and tears came out of her eyes.

Despite this, after Liu Qing left the game, the team doctor straightened her nose, and after briefly dealing with the injury, she did not hesitate to continue to play with the injury.

The head coach of the national women's basketball team, Yang Boyong, has just taken office and made some adjustments to the team.

originally planned to transfer Liu Qing to the national team in 1982, but seeing Liu Qing's high morale and passionate play, he decided to let her join the team in advance.

In the spring of 1981, Liu Qing, who was not yet 17 years old, was successfully selected for the national women's basketball team. Depending on the needs of the team, she played as the team's No. 2 centre-forward.

Last century. The eighties and nineties were the first period of the Chinese women's basketball team, with many famous players such as Song Xiaobo, Chen Yuefang, Cong Xuedi, and Zheng Haixia.

Liu Qing first worked as a substitute for the basketball team, and it was not until 1982 that she was promoted to the main second center position of the Chinese women's basketball team.

At the 9th Asian Championships in 1982, held in Tokyo, Japan, the Chinese women's basketball team performed well and finally won the runner-up, and Liu Qing won the "Dare to Fight Award".

The Chinese sports delegation participating in the 9th Asian Games in 1982 showed its style in the entrance ceremony.

At the Asian Games held in New Delhi, India that year, Liu Qing served as the main second center and reached the final for the Chinese women's basketball team.

The final opponent is the powerful South Korean women's basketball team, which has defeated the Chinese women's basketball team twice in the Asian Championships.

At the beginning of the final, the morale of Liu Qing and his teammates was high, Chen Yuefang served as the main center, and Liu Qing was the main second center.

The two scored frequently on the inside, and finally the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the South Korean team 75-67 and successfully won the Asian Games.

The following year, from July 24 to August 6, 1983, the Women's World Basketball Championship was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, marking the third time Brazil has hosted the Women's World Basketball Championship.

This World Championship brought together all the world's strongest teams, showing the peak level and development trend of the global women's basketball team.

However, the women's basketball team of the former Soviet Union eventually won the championship, which was their sixth World Championship title, and the center Semynova was the world superstar at that time.

The U.S. women's basketball team won the runner-up, while the Chinese women's basketball team won the third place in its first World Championships.

The Chinese women's basketball team has sprung up, injecting new competitiveness into the world women's basketball world, breaking the traditional impression that Asian teams have always been inferior in height.

Particularly striking are the two centers of the Chinese team, Chen Yuefang and Liu Qing, whose level of threat led the former Soviet women's basketball team to choose to play with the Chinese women's basketball team.

At the World Championships, the Chinese women's basketball team successfully won the bronze medal, and Liu Qing became a hero in the team. In 1984, when the Los Angeles Olympics were approaching, New China decided to organize a team to participate in the competition for the first time.

However, the Chinese women's basketball team has not yet secured an Olympic ticket and must fight for a ticket by participating in the qualifying tournament.

In the Olympic Games in May 1984, Liu Qing traveled with the team. Before the trip, the main player Song Xiaobo suffered a left ankle injury, and in the match against the Bulgarian team, Song Xiaobo's injury worsened, but she still insisted on playing with the injury.

Song Xiaobo's tenacity infected Liu Qing, Chen Yuefang, Cong Xuedi and other teammates, and the whole team worked together to become more and more courageous.

In the end, in the 10 games of the qualifying round, the Chinese women's basketball team won all the remaining 9 games except for the Canadian team and successfully won the Olympic ticket.

From July 24 to August 12, 1984, the 23rd Summer Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, USA, and the Chinese sports delegation sent 225 athletes.

The Chinese women's basketball team is highly anticipated by fans, with an earnest entrustment, led by head coach Yang Boyong, and the team includes Song Xiaobo, Liu Qing, Xiu Lijuan, Chen Yuefang, Zheng Haixia, Cong Xuedi, Qiu Chen, Li Xiaoqin, Zhang Yueqin, Zhang Hui, Ba Yan, Wang Jun and other members.

The Los Angeles Olympics ushered in fierce competition from six women's basketball teams, including China, Australia, Canada, Yugoslavia, the United States and South Korea.

The Chinese women's basketball team faced Australia in the first game, Liu Qing became the starter, and the main task assigned to her by the coach was to master the rebound, launch a secondary offense, and respond at the free throw line and inside.

In the face of the Australian team's height advantage and strong physique, the Chinese women's basketball team once fell into a passive situation. However, Liu Qing worked closely with his teammates, and gradually changed the trend of the game by adjusting his own state, forcing the opponent, and adopting the best defense.

In the end, the Chinese women's basketball team narrowly defeated the Australian team 67-64 and successfully got off to a good start. In this fierce battle with the Australian team, Liu Qing scored 16 points alone and made a huge contribution to the team.

Subsequently, the Chinese women's basketball team faced the Canadian team on July 31, 1984. The opponent made many small moves that made the game more intense, and in the end, the Chinese women's basketball team lost 61-66.

However, in the game on August 2, the Chinese women's basketball team faced the Yugoslav team and won with a score of 79-58, while Liu Qing emerged again, scoring 12 points alone.

Although the Chinese women's basketball team could only compete for the bronze medal after losing to South Korea in the semifinals, the Canadian team defeated the Chinese women's basketball team twice in the qualifiers and group stage and was determined to win the bronze medal.

To this end, the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, Yang Boyong, made a significant lineup adjustment, giving up two high school forwards, Liu Qing as the center, Xiu Lijuan as the second center, Song Xiaobo as the forward, with Cong Xuedi and Li Xiaoqin and other players.

The team ushered in a crucial moment in the battle for the bronze medal with the Canadian team, and the two sides competed fiercely, and the Chinese women's basketball team hoped to win the much-anticipated medal by defeating the opponent.

Although the center of this squad is not tall, they have better attacking speed.

At the beginning of the match, the two sides were extremely fiercely contested, with the Canadian team defending fiercely and even deliberately hitting Liu Qing in the face with an elbow, causing her mouth, nose and eye sockets to start bleeding.

Liu Qing temporarily took off the court to accept **, and the team's medical tape simply bandaged her wounds, but she resolutely continued the game.

As a result, blood stained the tape red and even seeped into her mouth. Liu Qing wiped it with his hand, directly forgetting the pain of the wound.

Her return injury boosted her teammates and boosted the morale of the team, who came together to win the Olympic bronze medal with a 63-57 victory over Canada.

In the last minute of the game, Liu Qing grabbed the backcourt rebound and passed the ball to Xiu Lijuan from a long distance, and Xiu Lijuan scored a layup to seal the victory for the Chinese team.

In this game for the bronze medal, Liu Qing performed well, contributing 8 points, 7 rebounds, 2 steals, 1 block and 1 assist.

In 1986, the 10th Asian Games were held in Seoul, and the Chinese women's basketball team competed with the South Korean team for the championship.

Since the first Asian Games in 1974, the Chinese women's basketball team has played 15 times with the South Korean team in the Asian Games, the Women's Basketball Asian Championships, the Olympic Games and other competitions, with a record of 7 wins and 8 losses, which is slightly at a disadvantage.

At the Asian Games in Seoul, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the South Korean team 78-64 to win the gold medal, and Liu Qing was one of the key contributors to this victory.

From August 7 to 17, 1986, the 10th Women's World Basketball Championship was held in Moscow, bringing together 12 teams.

The tournament is considered a milestone in the history of women's basketball, as the U.S. women's basketball team rose to prominence and successfully surpassed the former Soviet women's basketball team.

In the first game, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to the Czechoslovak team 76-80 due to being too underestimated, causing the biggest upset in this World Championships.

The loss of this game is really regrettable, the Chinese team led by 17 points at 47-30 in the first half, and the players thought that victory was close at hand, but in the case of a change of mentality, they were finally counterattacked by the opponent.

Considering the strength of the Chinese team at that time, they should have been able to compete for the silver or bronze medal, but in the end they could only settle for 5th place. This result made Liu Qing quite dissatisfied, and she shed tears of heartache in her disappointment.

By the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Liu was young and twenty-four, at the peak of his prime. The main center of the Chinese women's basketball team, Chen Yuefang, and the captain Song Xiaobo have retired, and Zheng Haixia has become the main center of the Chinese women's basketball team.

The tactic used by the team is "big man plus three-point shot", around Zheng Haixia to play the inside line, and the outside line is Cong Xuedi is responsible for shooting three-point shots. Due to Zheng Haixia's height of 206 meters, she has a clear advantage on the inside, as long as the ball is in her hands, it is a point.

However, due to her tall size and weight, she moves relatively slowly, while European and American teams are tall and nimble, defensively**.

Therefore, there was a disconnect between the inside and outside of the Chinese women's basketball team, and in the end it could only finish sixth. This sixth-place result was a pity for Liu Qing, and despite her best efforts, she could not change the result.

After the Seoul Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team ushered in a new head coach Li Yaguang, who appointed Liu Qing as the captain. Li Yaguang actively guided the whole team to play a dexterous and changeable style of play, and Zheng Haixia's offensive speed was also improved, which improved the overall strength of the Chinese women's basketball team.

It is worth mentioning that Li Yaguang was later expelled from the party due to financial problems, but under his leadership, the Chinese women's basketball team performed well in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

In the group stage, Liu Qing and Zheng Haixia served as the main centers and led the Chinese women's basketball team to defeat the Spanish team 66-63.

However, with it comes challenges. In the second game of the group stage, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to the United States team with a score of 63-93.

Despite the difficulties, in the third game, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Czechoslovak team 72-70, showing tenacious fighting spirit.

In the semifinals, the Chinese women's basketball team faced the powerful Cuban team. The Cuban team is known for its abundant physical strength, ** defense and good at secondary offense under the basket, however, Liu Qing is very good at fighting for rebounds and successfully plays the advantage of secondary offense. In the end, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the opponent 109-70 and successfully entered the finals.

In the final, the Chinese women's basketball team faced the powerful CIS women's basketball team, and the strength of the two teams was not much different. Despite the final loss of 66-76, the Chinese women's basketball team won the silver medal in the Barcelona Olympics, creating the best record in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team in the Olympic Games and going down in history.

Liu Qing, together with Chen Yuefang, Song Xiaobo, Zheng Haixia, Cong Xuedi and other players of the same generation, is known as the "first generation" of the Chinese women's basketball team.

She competed in three Olympic Games as a key team member, winning bronze at Los Angeles and silver at Barcelona.

In 1993, Liu Qing retired and entered the Beijing Institute of Physical Education for further study. During that time, she also ushered in an important node in her life - with a height of 190 meters, basketball handsome guy Zou Wei from Beijing got married.

Liu Qing graduated from the academy and then began her coaching career. This period also marked the birth of her daughter Zou Runjin in 1998, which became an integral part of her life.

After graduating from the Beijing Institute of Sport, Liu Qing coached the women's basketball team of the Beijing Military Region, and later took over the head coach position of the Chinese youth women's basketball team.

The pressure of work makes her often busy, and going out early and late has become commonplace. Liu Qing's work requires frequent team training and competitions, and it is commonplace for her not to return home for several months.

Despite her busy work, Liu Qing only let her daughter breastfeed for half a year before she had to go out to work in a hurry. This made her feel guilty, but with the support of her husband Zou Wei, she was able to concentrate on her work.

Zou Wei did not complain, he has always taken care of his daughter with his parents, and never let trivial matters affect Liu Qing's work status.

In March 2002, Liu Qing took over the position of head coach of the Chongqing women's basketball team, and since then she has been separated from her husband for many years.

Not only does Zou Wei have to work full-time, but he also has to take care of all aspects of his daughter: cooking, picking up and dropping off from school, and tutoring homework, which is a very heavy burden.

Sometimes Liu Qing comes home from vacation to rest and wants to cook a meal for her family, but she is always stopped by her husband and mother-in-law at the kitchen door: "Your work pressure is already high enough, come back and have a good rest." ”

This deeply touched Liu Qing: many women want to have a career, but are bound by their families and children, while they are able to devote themselves to work. She is grateful to her husband and in-laws for supporting her silently and allowing her to move forward bravely in her career.

In 2012, Liu Qing began coaching the Chinese University men's basketball team, and in 2014, she switched to the position of head coach of the National Olympic women's basketball team.

Leading a young "post-95" team, Liu Qing knows that the physical fitness of players and the speed of acceptance of new things are crucial.

In order to better train these young players, Liu Qing actively participated in the coaching training courses organized by the Chinese Basketball Association and worked hard to improve his coaching level.

Liu Qing's daughter, Zou Runjin, showed her parents' independence and outstanding athletic talent early on. In 2015, Zou Runjin was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent results and became a member of the school's women's basketball team.

In 2018, Zou Runjin was successfully selected for the national women's basketball team, and participated in the National University Basketball League five times, winning the finals twice.

However, due to the decline in the overall performance of the Chinese women's basketball team, she failed to realize her dream of participating in the Olympics, which became the most regrettable part of her career.

In 2019, Liu Qing chose to retire from a front-line post at the age of 55. Feeling indebted to her family, she devoted herself to family affairs after retirement, cooking for her husband, taking care of household chores, and often accompanying him to visit her in-laws.

After retiring, Liu Qing politely declined the interview of ** and the invitation of the TV station. Away from the basketball court, she feels like an ordinary person, living a low-key life in Beijing with her husband and daughter.

With the arrival of 2020, Zou Runjin successfully graduated from Tsinghua University and was admitted to her alma mater, the School of Finance, for graduate studies, paving a new path for her future. At the same time, Liu Qing also became a member of the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023.

On August 25, 2022, Liu Qing was successfully inducted into the 2022 Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame nomination list. Entering November 2023, he was once again inducted into the 2023 Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame.

Today, at the age of 59, Liu Qing regards her daughter as the most outstanding masterpiece she and her husband have created together.

As a basketball player Liu Qing, she has always maintained the Xi of sports, and her figure is still quite good, and there is no fat. In addition, she has a ruddy complexion and is in an excellent mental state, looking much younger than her peers.