Hunan sports teenager “mass production”, the secret is here
Policies encourage the discovery and cultivation of “excellent competitive reserve talents” Short video dissemination helps sports rookies enter the public eye
From the 2021 National Games track and field arena, the Hunan Shaoyang girl Xia Singing, who has both beauty and strength, is an online fan, to Changsha Mingde Huaxing Middle School winning the national junior high school men’s basketball league championship in 2022, and then in the past three months, Chen Zhikang , Guo Yanyu, Xia Yuting, Chen Xingquan and other teenagers have achieved outstanding results in the national track and field arena, and they have become popular among young people through the short video platform.
Why is Hunan sports youth “mass production” in recent years? Hunan deepens the integration of sports and education, Hunan Province’s “star selection plan” for outstanding competitive reserve talents and a series of policy measures, as well as “assistance” from short videos, sports rookies have more and more opportunities to shine many.
All media reporter Ye Zhu
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National track and field competition, Hunan students frequently emerge
From October 30th to 31st, the National U16 Track and Field Championships was held in Huangshi, Hubei Province. More than 800 athletes from all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government participated. Among them, Guo Yanyu from Zhuzhou No. 5 Middle School won two gold medals in the women’s 100-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles, Xia Yuting from Yiyang Zhenyan Middle School won the women’s 100-meter and 200-meter championships, and 14-year-old Liuyang junior high school student Chen Xingquan scored 14.83 seconds Won the men’s 110m hurdles championship.
Guo Yanyu, 15 years old this year, previously won the bronze medal in the women’s U16 100-meter hurdles at the 14th Hunan Provincial Games held in Yueyang. In the 100-meter hurdles final of the National U16 Track and Field Championships held on October 30, Guo Yanyu took the lead from the second hurdle, and finally broke through the finish line with a score of 14.60 seconds to win the championship. Xia Yuting, who is also 15 years old, has been exposed to track and field training since the first day of junior high and joined the track and field team of Proverbs Middle School in 2020. After the game, Xia Yuting said that she would strengthen physical and skill training and strive to achieve better results in next year’s National Games.
Zhang Haiqin
World youth record, weightlifting girl strides toward Olympics
On November 5th, in the 55kg competition of the 2022 National Women’s Weightlifting Championships and National Women’s Weightlifting Championships, Zhang Haiqin, a 2020 senior from Changjun Liuyang Experimental School, successfully lifted 130kg with three clean and jerk. With this outstanding performance, he won two championships in clean and jerk and total score. In addition, she also won a silver medal in the snatch.
In the recent National U Series Weightlifting Championships, Zhang Haiqin, who participated in the U18 women’s 59kg class, won 3 gold medals in snatch, clean and jerk, and total score with 100kg snatch, 130kg clean and jerk, and a total score of 230kg. The total score exceeds the world youth record of 228 kg.
The women’s weightlifting levels for the Paris Olympics are set at 49, 59, 71, 81 kg and over 81 kg. “I hope she can move up step by step to become an Olympic champion.” Zhou Junfu, head coach of Hunan Weightlifting Management Center, said that Zhang Haiqin, who is now playing 55kg, still needs to gain 4kg, and her upper limbs and back are weak. Focus on this training. In the future, I will also participate in more competitions and strive to enter the national team as soon as possible.
“Just to win the championship”, the young badminton player is ready to go
On November 6th, the fifth round of Hunan Badminton “Star Selection Plan” training was held for 27 days. At the training ground of the Provincial Badminton Table Tennis Sports Management Center, the young players practiced with the guidance of the professional coaches of the provincial team. After a while, they will usher in a big test – the national U-series badminton competition (U12-U14) finals held in Huangshan, Anhui.
The young players come from cities and states across the province, and many of them have achieved good results in the 14th Provincial Games this year. They will receive professional guidance from the coaches of the Hunan badminton team within 6 months. Those who stand out will be expected to be officially selected for the Hunan Provincial Badminton Team and become a new force for the “Badminton Hunan Army” to compete in future national events.
Cheng Shujie, a 12-year-old girl from Shaoyang who won two gold medals in the countdown to the Provincial Games, also appeared at the “Star Selection Program” training site. This short-haired girl, who is looking forward to the Olympic Games in Brisbane in 2032, has the charm of Zhang Yining, the “big devil” of Chinese table tennis. “To participate in the competition is to win the championship. I believe that I can do it!” Cheng Shujie said.
Chen Xingquan
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Integration of sports and education
Short video dissemination helps talents out of the circle
From Chen Zhikang, a senior in Changjun Middle School who won the 110-meter hurdles in the men’s B Division of the National Middle School Student Track and Field Championships in August this year, to Guo Yanyu, Xia Yuting and Chen Xingquan who won gold in the recent National U16 Track and Field Championships Several rookies in track and field, with their cool running posture and performance on the field, have won thousands of netizens’ attention and likes, and many people are amazed, “It turns out that Hunan track and field is so amazing!”
“Because of the impact of the epidemic, many outstanding athletes did not participate in the U16 national competition.” Facing the praise of netizens, Xiang Chirong, the coach of the Hunan Provincial Track and Field Team, calmly analyzed. In her opinion, the performance ranking cannot fully reflect the true level of our province’s athletes in the country.
Xiang Chirong believes that with the rapid development of short videos, grass-roots coaches send videos of athletes’ training and competitions to the Internet, providing more opportunities for provincial teams to discover talents. Since August this year, Hunan has launched the “Star Selection Program” selection work for outstanding competitive reserve talents for young people aged 6 to 19 across the province. “Now grassroots coaches and athletes can also select and sign up for the ‘star selection plan’ of various sports, and go to the provincial team for training. Sometimes I also brush up on short videos. Good track and field seedlings.”
As Xiang Chirong said, the growth of new sports stars is inseparable from the discovery, training and promotion of primary and secondary school coaches. In order to encourage the cultivation of talents, in April this year, the Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau and the Hunan Provincial Department of Education released the “Implementation Plan for Deepening the Integration of Sports and Education in Hunan Province to Promote the Healthy Development of Adolescents”, which mentioned that “for all kinds of students (youth) participating in the national and international levels, Sports competitions, as well as representing Hunan Province in the Olympic Games, Asian Games, Universiade, World Secondary School Games, World Individual Student Games, National Games, National Student (Youth) Games, National Individual Championships in track and field, swimming, shooting and other events. The outstanding achievements of the sports and education departments are included in the reward and evaluation mechanism of the sports and education departments.”
The more and more perfect youth sports event system and reward mechanism have made grassroots coaches more clear about their teaching goals, giving young athletes a direction to work hard and more choices.
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Provincial sports teams and schools jointly cultivate talents
The country is exploring the entry of outstanding retired athletes into colleges and universities
After winning the men’s 110-meter hurdles championship in the National U16 Track and Field Championships, Chen Xingquan talked about his future plans, “Becoming a national first-level athlete in the 110-meter hurdles in high school, admitted to an ideal university, and become a coach.”
“My target college is Zhejiang University,” said Liu Xianggan, a second-year senior at Yali Middle School in Changsha City, after winning the men’s U16 100-meter championship at the 14th Hunan Provincial Games held in September.
Like Chen Xingquan and Liu Xianggan, there are not a few students who have sports expertise and want to enter colleges and universities for further study.
Whether it is gymnastics, which is Hunan’s traditional strength, or track and field, where rookies are constantly emerging, Hunan Sports has been facing the dilemma of attracting and retaining talents in recent years. Zhang Lianbiao, deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau, said that going to university and practicing sports are not contradictory. In his view, even if an athlete chooses a professional path, he still needs to leave a retreat for the athlete in the future. It is important to retain their student status while giving them the opportunity to go to university. At the same time, it is also a good way to jointly build professional teams with sports characteristic schools.
Xia Sining, a 100-meter hurdles athlete who became popular on the Internet for her dazzling appearance and outstanding performance in the 2021 National Games, is a good example. At present, Xia Sining has been enrolled in Beijing Sports University. In order to ensure the quality of training, the Provincial Athletics Management Center cooperated with Sun Haiping, the mentor of Olympic champion Liu Xiang, to send Xia Sining to Shanghai for training. The sports performance has improved significantly recently. “In the future, there will be more and more cases like Xia Sining.” Zhang Lianbiao said.
“Parents have a lot of concerns about their children taking the professional sports path. It is not difficult to understand the idea of wanting their children to develop their studies and get a job smoothly.” Xiang Chirong said that because many sports seedlings have less professional training after entering colleges and universities, the provincial track and field team has already cooperated with Peking University. , Central South University, Hunan Normal University and other colleges and universities to cooperate in the training of professional talents. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education and the State General Administration of Sports stated that they are exploring the practice of outstanding retired athletes to serve as physical education teachers in schools. Xiang Chirong believes, “This is also a solution to the employment problem of athletes after retirement and to retain good seedlings. , to provide conditions for the emergence of talents. At present, Fujian and Shandong have already implemented such policies.”
