A new honor for Chinese basketball, won the bronze medal in women's three-person basketball at the Tokyo Olympics
The women's basketball team has continued its glory for the first time in 29 years.
The women have never let the red flowers withered.
The next chapter of the women's basketball team is continuing in Tokyo. Yang Shuyu, Wang Lili, Zhang Zhiting, Wan Jiyuan, the four women's three women's basketball champions in China, won the bronze medal in women's three-player basketball in the Tokyo Olympics.
This is the third time in the history of Chinese basketball that they have won a medal in the Olympic arena, just like Du Feng What the coach said: This is a brand new honor for Chinese basketball.
The women's basketball girls shed tears on the scene. They created a new legend in Chinese basketball.
The first two times were on the Olympic podium, the first time was the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984, and the second time was the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. The last time the Chinese women's basketball team was one step away from the podium was the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
At that time, they lost to Russia in the third place battle. They were also the opponents that prevented the three women's basketball team from advancing to the final.
Back in the distant 1984, that was the Chinese women's basketball team's first Olympic game.
The head coach at the time was basketball star Yang Boyong. Lao Yang is a native of Jianshui County, Yunnan Province.
He used to be a player of the Southwestern District team organized by Marshal He Long. He is also a famous player of the Chinese Men’s Basketball Team. Before the 1984 Olympics, he also won the bronze medal in the World Championships with the women's basketball team.
37 years later, Yunnan juniors stood on the podium again.
Yang Shuyu, who became popular because of her fresh and sweet appearance, she was born in 2002 and only 19 years old this year.
Her native place is Guangzhou, Guangdong, but there is actually a story behind it.
Her sister named Yang Liwei, a national player in the women's basketball team, was born in Kunming, Yunnan. At the age of 7, Yang Liwei represented Guangzhou to participate in the 11th Guangdong Provincial Games. She was quickly selected by Guangzhou Weilun Sports School (renamed Guangzhou Sports Vocational and Technical College in 2004), and then embarked on a career path.
At that time, Yang Liwei's family had come to Guangdong from Yunnan.
She was just 7 years older than her sister. When she became famous when she entered the sports school, her sister was just born. In the future, Yang Shuyu also followed in the footsteps of her sister, under the coach Mao Weihong in Weilun Sports School, and step by step from the national youth to professional, and then came to Tokyo.
Facing France, Yang Shuyu hit an outside long shot at a critical moment to seal the victory for the team. The little girl had cut off her long hair two years earlier. Like her sister, she looks neutral now. Their style of play is no longer the impression of women's basketball, but more masculine.
Yang Liwei's fast break breakthrough, Yang Shuyu's three-pointer, each move are the characteristics of modern women's basketball masculinity, emphasizing the masculinity of women's basketball, which is exactly what Yang Lao advocated back then.
In 1984, among 12 people including Song Xiaobo, Xiu Lijuan, Chen Yuefang, Zheng Haixia, Qiu Chen, Li Xiaoqin, Zhang Hui, Cong Xuedi, Zhang Yueqin, Ba Yan, Wang Jun, Liu Qing, etc., the one with the greatest reputation in the future was naturally selected as an international candidate. Zheng Haixia of the Basketball Federation Hall of Fame, when she was only 17 years old. The captain Song Xiaobo, who had a broken ankle, insisted on participating in the competition and took on the task of scoring arrows. He lost to South Korea in the semifinals, defeated Canada in the third place, and finally won the first Olympic medal of Chinese basketball.
8 years later, the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games was the pinnacle of the Chinese women's basketball team.
Coached by Li Yaguang, who was only 34 years old at the time, 12 members Liu Qing, Li Dongmei, Zheng Haixia, Zheng Xiulin, Wang Fang, Zhan Shuping, Peng Ping, Cong Xuedi, Zheng Dongmei, Li Xin, He Jun, and Liu Jun rushed to the Olympics. At this time, Zheng Haixia is already the mainstay of the team, and her side is a group of mature and outstanding athletes aged 24-29.
Wang Fang's son is Zhang Zhenlin, and Zhan Shuping's son is Fu Hao. They both play for the Liaoning Men's Basketball Team. Li Xin is the only female head coach in the history of the CBA. They are considered players that fans know more about. However, the 29-year-old Cong Xuedi of that team is the real core of the perimeter. Although she briefly retired from the national team, she returned from the call, averaging 12 points per game, the second highest in the team.
Like Cong Xuedi in the 92 women's basketball team, the three women's basketball team also has an outside core, the 29-year-old Wang Lili. The veteran is the key to the team’s podium. Wang Lili was once a CUBA Peking University women’s basketball player. She was a great player in the college arena. She entered the Beijing women’s basketball team as she wished. However, in the 14-15 season, she sat on the bench and had a career. Precarious.
At first glance, Wang Lili is the 92 Olympic heroes Zhan Shuping. The coach of the team is the player who has transitioned to the head coach earlier and has coached the women's basketball team for the longest time. Coached in Shenbu for 17 years, and won the WCBA championship in the 10-11 season. Later, due to illness, she returned home to recuperate in early 2014. When she came out again, she had gone to faraway Xinjiang to form a brand new team.
Wang Lili is Zhan Shuping’s core fighter for Xinjiang. After moving to Xinjiang, she quickly became an excellent offensive and defensive star. Against the hometown team Heilongjiang, she contributed 18 points and 7 steals. After that, she was selected as an All-Star substitute for three consecutive years. Become an All-Star starter in the 4th year. Under the guidance of the exhibition, Wang Lili can be said to be like a fish in water and eventually became a famous player. She had 32 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists and 5 steals in a single game in the league, ending August 1 and 15 consecutive victories.
However, Wang Lili's championship luck in the league was not good.
In the 15-16 season, Wang Lili eliminated Liaoning with a right knee injury in the playoffs, but in the semi-finals against Guangdong, her right knee cruciate ligament ruptured, and eventually missed the finals, and finally saw Xinjiang lost to Beijing 1-3 and lost the championship. Since then, the personnel has changed and after ups and downs, after Han Xu joined in 2018, Xinjiang finally returned to the finals in 2021, but their opponent is the powerful Inner Mongolia women's basketball team.
She missed the championship in the league, but Wang Lili is the blessed general of the national team. In the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, she was called up by the national team. The head coach is Xu Limin, the coach when she played for Beijing. Xu did not miss the second time. Wang Lili averaged 5.2 points, 2.8 assists, 1.8 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game in 5 games. The two-point field goal percentage was as high as 63.2%. The Chinese women's basketball team won the Asian Games for the first time in 8 years.
Coming to 2021, Wang Lili became the eldest sister of the three women's basketball team, wearing No. 23 she became a "female Jordan." In two high-intensity games a day, she was the mainstay of the team, averaging 5.5 points per game and shooting 69% from the field. In the final battle against France, she scored 9 of the team's 16 points and successfully won the bronze medal.
Wang Lili once dreamed of being on the Olympic podium wearing a national team jersey like coach Zhan Shuping, and now she has done it.
Shao Ting, who was born in CUBA like Wang Lili, is now a famous women's basketball player. Although she became famous at Beijing Normal University, was a registered athlete from Sichuan, and became the finals MVP in Beijing, her basketball starting point was Shanghai Pudong. The famous basketball school Jianping Middle School is her alma mater, and the women's basketball coach Shi Xudong is her mentor. The female basketball star produced by Jianping is not only Shao Ting. This time, Zhang Zhiting, the inner core of the three women's basketball team, is the same school sister.
Zhang Zhiting was called "Little Yao Ming" when she was a child. Her father, Zhang Chengji, was a former Shanghai men's volleyball player. At the age of 7, she was already a standout among her friends. Since then, she has been focused on by coach Shi Xudong and walked along the road of her senior sister Shao Ting. Into the profession. However, Xiao Yao Ming did not grow up after 15 years old, and her height was fixed at 195CM. The expected height advantage disappeared, making her career path more difficult.
The east side is not bright and the west side is bright. In 2018, coach Xu Jiamin formed a women's three-person basketball team in Shanghai. Zhang Zhiting was encouraged by her mentor to actively join. This transition made her career brighter. In 2018, she won the Jakarta Asian Games three-person women's basketball championship with Li Yingyun, Dilana Dilixiati and Jiang Jiayin.
In 2019, she and Wu Di, Li Yingyun, and Jiang Jiayin represented the Chinese women's basketball team in the FIBA Three-player Basketball World Cup. In the semifinals, they scored overtime against Australia. At the last minute, Zhang Zhiting completed the lore and won by 1 point. In the final, he defeated Hungary and won the first world championship in the adult group in the history of Chinese basketball. Then in Tokyo, Zhang Zhiting took the top spot to secure the women's basketball on the podium.
Losing the expected height and possible career prospects, Zhang Zhiting lost the East and reaped the mulberry.
Among the four players, the youngest Wan Jiyuan is half a year younger than Yang Shuyu, and just turned 19 half a month ago. When Zhang Zhiting won the World Cup in 2019, she was competing with the U19 National Youth Championship in the World Youth Championship. Just as Zhejiang played a youthful whirlwind in the CBA, Wan Jiyuan was a youthful and beautiful rainbow of the Zhejiang women's basketball team.
Since 2017, Wan Jiyuan has been a frequent visitor of the women's national basketball team, from the U16 Asian Championships to the U19 World Youth Championships. In 2018, the WCBA reform allowed each team to have a 16-year-old young player, so she became the youngest professional player in the WCBA league. At the age of 19, she has played professional leagues for 3 years. In order to play three-person basketball, she lost 5KG to increase her physical fitness and flexibility. In the non-stop running of three-person basketball, the young people trained by Zhuji Junma Basketball School are full of vitality.
After experiencing the two podium peaks of the last century and the strong 2008, the Chinese women’s basketball team has inevitably fallen into the pit of failure to pick up and lose strength. However, in recent years, the women’s basketball team has begun to emerge a large number of young players. . Just like Wan Jiyuan and Yang Shuyu in three-player basketball, Li Yueru and Han Xu also made their debut in the five-man women's basketball team.
