It is difficult for Asian athletes to appear on the podium of world-class track and field events. It is very rare for Asian athletes to win medals in international competitions. The long jump event of the recent American Track and Field World Championships has created this miracle. In the last jump, Chinese player Wang Jianan ranked 5th according to the previous tentative plan, and became the champion in one breath. He not only won the gold medal from the Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Miltiadis Tentoglou, but also won the first side of the World Championships for China. The gold medal, and the first Asian to become the world champion in the long jump at the World Championships, made history.
Before he became a long jumper, Wang Jianan was a pole vaulter. He was quite talented in this event. From the moment he was discovered by the coach, he was able to jump over 5 meters in less than a year of practice jumping. Height (approximately the medal-winning results of the Taiwan National All-China Games High Men’s Team). After joining the Jiangsu track and field team, he switched to practicing decathlon. Among the decathlon events, Wang Jianan’s long jump performance was particularly outstanding. In the first competition, he jumped out in the long jump event and jumped out in the long jump. At the suggestion of the coach, he changed the project again and became a long jumper.
Wang Jianan, who was born in 1996, has a good talent in various track and field events. As long as the coach has demonstrated and guided him a few times, he can quickly get started and improve. Not long after training in the long jump, he was 16 years old in Chinese track and field. He won the championship with a jump of 8.04 meters, and then successively won gold in the Asian Athletics Championships and the World Youth Athletics Championships, showing his infinite potential in the long jump.
With talent and the results of practice, Wang Jianan quickly reached the peak of his long jump career. At the 2015 Beijing Track and Field World Championships, he was about to pass his 19th birthday and won the bronze medal in the long jump with 8 meters 18, becoming the first in Asia. The athlete who won the medal in the long jump at the World Championships, under the blessing of this glory, did not stop moving forward. In 2018, he jumped out of his career best time of 8 meters and 47, tying the national record of China’s long jump.
Although he has dominated China and even the Asian Games, he has not achieved good results in competition with European and American players in world-level competitions in recent years. Although Wang Jianan has entered the Olympic hall twice in Rio and Tokyo, he has always He could no longer stand on the podium of international competitions, and even failed to enter the finals in the Tokyo Olympics. At that time, because of the great psychological pressure, he jumped out in the East Olympics with a score of 7 meters 81, which was even less than 16 meters away from himself. For the first time at the age of 19, his performance in the decathlon long jump was only 0.01 meters higher, and he ended the Olympic journey with a completely abnormal result.
In the long jump preliminaries of the US Track and Field World Championships recently, Wang Jianan’s performance was not very good. The first 5 jumps in the finals did not even get the favor of the director, and there was no broadcast scene. Instead, it was the Greek player who won the gold medal in the East Olympics. Tentoglou kept jumping out of good results as everyone expected, and temporarily ranked first with 8.32 meters.
Wang Jianan was only ranked 5th in the first 5 jumps, and he was only shown on the broadcast at the last jump. I didn’t expect that in this 6th jump, regardless of the rhythm, pace, and pedaling, he was so smooth. While flying over the bunker, he advanced track and field history at the same time, jumping out of 8 meters 36, and no competitor surpassed it. In the end, Tentoglou, the gold medalist of the East Olympics, finished runner-up with a difference of 0.04 meters, while Wang Jianan wrote a new page in history and won the championship.
During the past period, Wang Jianan said that he had dreamed three times that he became a world champion, but when he woke up from the dream, he would keep telling himself to recognize the reality and practice down-to-earth. He successfully stood on the top of the podium of the World Championships, holding the championship he dreamed of winning. At only 25 years old, he can write many miracles in the history of track and field after a perfect reversal. Let us wait and see.
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