The Chinese diving team is a sport in the Chinese sports world, which is rarely popular on weekdays, but once the Asian Games, the Olympic Games and other large-scale competitions are approaching, they become the focus of attention. It is known as the "Chinese sports dream team", and the project is extremely rare.
As we all know, the Chinese diving team has many outstanding athletes who have attracted much attention, the most famous of which are several diving queens. Today, let's take a look at the story of one of the diving queens, Wu Minxia.
Wu Minxia was born in 1985, her hometown is Shanghai, but her ancestral home is Haining, Zhejiang.
In the spring of 1991, Yuan Lianying, the coach of Shanghai Children's Sports School, went to Longhua Kindergarten to select students. At that time, more than 100 children were tested on their body and toughness, among which Wu Minxia performed the best.
Coach Yuan Lianying fell in love with Wu Minxia at first sight, but at the same time, the teachers of the dance class also favored her. In the end, due to the proximity of the Shanghai Natatorium to her home, Wu Minxia began to dive under the choice of her parents.
When Wu Minxia first learned Xi diving, because she didn't know anything about the technique and didn't master it well, she was always photographed blue and purple every time she entered the water, but she never showed weakness and did not confide in her parents about these troubles.
With this perseverance and perseverance, Wu Minxia quickly stood out among many children who practiced Xi diving together, and joined the Shanghai diving team as early as 1995 to receive more professional training.
In 1998, Wu Minxia was selected by the Chinese national diving team, and its coaches were Wu Guocun and Wang Min.
At that time, the Chinese diving team had become a leader in Chinese sports, with famous players such as Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing, while Wu Minxia was just an ordinary team member at that time.
Wu Minxia trained very hard until 2001, when her persistence finally bore fruit. At the World Championships, she won the women's double 3m springboard championship and the subsequent East Asian Games single 3m springboard title.
Wu Minxia and Guo Jingjing teamed up at the 2002 Asian Games, where they won the double 3m springboard and also finished second in the single 3m springboard.
Wu Minxia later basically became the absolute main force of the Chinese diving team, although the diving sister at that time was Guo Jingjing, but Wu Minxia was not Guo Jingjing's fixed partner.
Wu Minxia and Guo Jingjing won the double 3-meter springboard championship at the 2004 Athens Olympics, becoming the new generation of Olympic champions of the Chinese diving team, and also became Guo Jingjing's regular partner.
Wu Minxia also ushered in the peak of her career after the Athens Olympics.
She won the women's 3m springboard title at the 2005 FINA Diving Finals, followed by the women's 1m springboard and the women's 3m springboard single and double titles at the 2006 National Diving Championships.
In addition, she also won the women's 1-meter springboard and women's 3-meter springboard double championships at the National Diving Championships.
In July of the same year, she also won the women's single 3m springboard championship in the World Cup diving competition.
In 2007, Wu Minxia and Guo Jingjing partnered to win the women's 3-meter springboard championship and the women's 3-meter springboard runner-up at the World Championships.
Wu Minxia won the World Cup doubles and singles in 2008, and then partnered with Guo Jingjing to win the double 3m springboard title at the Beijing Olympics.
Guo Jingjing announced her retirement shortly after the Beijing Olympics, while Wu Minxia became the new leader of the Chinese diving team.
Although Wu Minxia had been looking forward to this moment for a long time, it was only when she actually got to this position that she realized the difficulty.
Although she has already won numerous world and Olympic titles, she quickly adapted to the role and led her teammates to outstanding results.
In 2010, he won the World Cup double 3m springboard championship and won the championship titles of 1m springboard, single 3m springboard and double 3m springboard at the national championships.
Wu Minxia won the women's single 3m springboard title for the first time at the World Championships in 2011, and also won the women's double 3m springboard title, which equaled Guo Jingjing's record of five gold medals at the World Championships.
Wu Minxia has been focusing on the singles event since 2012 and won the 3m springboard title for the third time in the World Cup, which made her the first person in the history of the Chinese diving team, surpassing Gao Min and Guo Jingjing.
At London 2012, she won both the double 3m springboard pair and the 3m springboard singles, which also enabled her to achieve the feat of her solo career.
Her number of Olympic gold medals has reached the same level as that of Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing, and the total number of medals has reached the same level as legends such as Li Ning, Li Xiaoshuang, and Guo Jingjing, making her a leader in Chinese sports.
Almost everyone thought that Wu Minxia would retire, but she persevered for four years.
In 2013, Wu Minxia won the World Championships for the sixth time, creating the first in the history of the Chinese diving team.
Wu Minxia won her fifth World Cup title in 2014, which also increased her total number of world titles to 24.
Wu Minxia won her ninth diving World Cup title in 2016 and became the first woman over the age of 30 in Chinese history.
Wu Minxia won the two-man 3m springboard title at the Rio Olympics, becoming a five-time Olympic champion and the most decorated Olympic athlete in Chinese sporting history.
Wu Minxia announced her retirement after the Rio Olympics.
During the Rio Olympics, Ms. Wu and her boyfriend, Zhang Xiaocheng, were in the limelight, but many were skeptical about their relationship at the time.
Predecessors like Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing all married into wealthy families, while Wu Minxia's boyfriend Zhang Xiaocheng is a journalist, and his family is also an ordinary family.
However, many netizens are still blessing them, they think that Wu Minxia gave up marrying into a wealthy family and chose love, which is very worthy of blessing.
Wu Minxia and Zhang Xiaocheng registered their marriage in 2017, and then in 2018, Wu Minxia became pregnant and successfully gave birth to a daughter.
Later, someone broke the news that Wu Minxia's husband Zhang Xiaocheng may be bisexual, and shared some photos of the two. The whistleblower also said that what he said was true and he was not afraid of being denounced by others, which showed that the news had a certain degree of credibility.
Although everyone has their own past, even if Zhang Xiaocheng has done something before, now that he has become Wu Minxia's husband, the father of the child may have put an end to his past.
Wu Minxia's decision to choose him should be carefully considered, because to become an Olympic champion, you need not only skills and strength, but also intelligence, emotional intelligence and other qualities.
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