For example, in recent years, a number of former Olympic champions have begun to enter the leadership in their respective sports fields, such as the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games 3-meter springboard champion, the 2000 Sydney Olympics double champion Xiong Ni, the current party secretary of the Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau, and a department-level cadre
Zhang Jun, a double gold medalist in the Sydney Olympics and Athens Olympics, and a famous badminton player, was also Lin Dan's teammate back then, and is currently the vice president of Nanjing University of Physical Education and the seventh chairman of the Chinese Badminton Association, and he is also the first badminton Olympic champion in China to be a department-level cadre;
Chen Yanqing, the women's weightlifting 58kg double champion of the Athens Olympics and the Beijing Olympics, is currently a member of the party group and vice chairman of the Suzhou Women's Federation in Jiangsu Province, and previously served as the deputy director of the Suzhou Sports Bureau of Jiangsu Province; As the 2024 Paris Olympics approach, three more Olympic champions have officially stepped into the ranks of department-level cadres, the youngest of whom is now only 38 years old
1. Xian Dongmei: As the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics 52 kg double gold medalist, born in 1975 Xian Dongmei began to enter the sports school training at the age of 13, and was selected to the Guangdong Provincial Sports School in the second year to start practicing wrestling, until she was 15 years old before changing to practice judo, in 1993, only 18-year-old Xian Dongmei was selected into the Chinese national judo training team, in her career Xian Dongmei won a total of gold medals in the 2001 World University Games, She won the gold medal in the women's judo 52kg category at the 2004 Athens Olympics, the individual champion at the 2004 World Cup in Germany, the women's judo team champion at the 2007 Judo World Team Championships, the gold medal in the women's judo 52kg category at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the double champion at the 2008 Paris Super World Cup and the Budapest World Cup
In fact, what Xian Dongmei really admires the Chinese people is the various injuries she has experienced in her career, as well as the tenacious fighting spirit and amazing perseverance of 5 retirements and 5 comebacks. A number of major injuries such as patellar displacement, but all were overcome by Xian Dongmei, followed by 5 retirements and 5 comebacks, Xian Dongmei also overcame the age problem and the posture problem after childbirth, and won the 52kg gold medal in women's judo at the Beijing Olympics for China after the fifth comeback, you must know that this is her Olympic defending gold medal, which can be called a miracle in the history of world judo! It has also become the first judo athlete in the history of Chinese sports to win two Olympic gold medals
After retiring, Xian Dongmei successively served as the deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Heavy Competitive Sports Training Center, the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Heavy Competitive Sports Training Center and the director of the Guangdong Provincial Heavy Competitive Sports Training Center, until 2017, the 42-year-old Xian Dongmei became the chairman of the Chinese Judo Association and the head coach of the national judo team, and began to lead the team to compete in various world championships
2. Gong Jinjie: Born in November 1985, Gong Jinjie is the youngest of the three people, Gong Jinjie used to be a Chinese women's cycling team athlete, due to his father's strict education, Gong Jinjie insisted on running 3 kilometers a day with his father since he was 7 years old, rain or shine! Therefore, Gong Jinjie won the first place in the long jump and the second place in the 100 meters of track and field athletes in Jilin Province during primary school, and then Gong Jinjie began to practice sprinting after entering the Jilin Provincial Sports School, but during that time in the sports school, the coach found that Gong Jinjie's explosiveness was extremely prominent, so after the analysis of many coaches, it was suggested that Gong Jinjie began to practice track cycling, so Gong Jinjie really started to practice track cycling at the age of 16 years old, strictly speaking, he is an "older player".
The 2012 London Olympics is Gong Jinjie's first Olympic journey, the result of the first Olympic Games Gong Jinjie, in the women's team competition has achieved proud results, she and teammate Guo Shuang first broke the world record twice in the qualifiers, and then defeated the German team in the final with a time of 32.619 seconds to win the Olympic gold medal, the result of this joy only lasted less than 5 minutes, the referee research that Gong Jinjie and Guo Shuang had foul behavior in the game and changed the judgment, and finally the German team won the gold medal in the London Olympic track cycling women's team event, Gong Jinjie and Guo Shuang won the silver medal
Four years later, at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Gong Jinjie represented the Chinese track cycling national team again, and finally won the gold medal in the women's team sprint with his new teammate Zhong Angel with a time of 32.107 seconds, which is also the first Olympic gold medal in the history of China's track cycling project, and Gong Jinjie made history for Chinese track cycling!
After retiring, Gong Jinjie has served as the director of the track and field cycling management center of the Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau, the director of the Hangzhou Asian Games cycling competition and the deputy commander of the competition
3. Zhu Qinan: I believe many people are no strangers to Zhu Qinan, who was once known as the "wonder boy" Zhu Qinan was selected by the shooting coach of Wenzhou Sports School at the age of 13, and then was selected into the Zhejiang Provincial Shooting Team in 2002 and studied under Zhu Xiaobo, and was selected by the Chinese shooting national team in December of the same year, and most importantly, from his entry into the national team in 2002 to his first participation in the Olympic Games in 2 years, Zhu Qinan, who was not yet 20 years old, won the gold medal in the men's 10m air rifle at the Athens Olympics, and also broke the gold medal by the American player JaneSen Parker set the 702.5 ring world record, and since then Zhu Qinan has won the title of "wonder boy".
4 years later in the Beijing Olympic Games, Zhu Qinan regretted that he failed to defend his title, only won an Olympic silver medal, after retiring Zhu Qinan successively served as the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Shooting Archery Cycling Sports Management Center and the director of the competition department of the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee, after entering 2024, Zhu Qinan began to officially serve as the deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau, at the deputy department level, and he also became the fourth department-level cadre in Zhejiang Province to be the Olympic champion
The top three are former Chinese women's ranking player Zhou Suhong (now secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League), Chinese table tennis player Lu Lin (current party secretary and chairman of the Zhejiang Disabled Persons' Federation) and famous Chinese weightlifter Zhan Xugang, also a two-time Olympic gold medalist, who is now the deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau