one Women's boxing won 5 gold medals in a world championship

At this Olympic Games, there are many "diving" events and breakthroughs of the Chinese Legion. For example, Zhao Shuai of Taekwondo and Gong Jinjie/Zhong Angel of Bicycle made a historic breakthrough to win gold medals, Dong Bin of triple jump and Cheng Xunzhao of Judo achieved the best results in China's Olympic Games... Among them, women's boxing is easily ignored. Although they did not win the gold medal, their "efficiency" was amazing. Ren Cancan and Li Qian reached the top four, and Yin Junhua won three games in a row to reach the final, Finally, it was reversed by this year's world champion Moseli. Because there is no bronze medal fight in boxing, the final result of women's boxing is 1 silver and 2 bronze, which is a record high, and the medal winning rate is as high as 100%!

Women's boxing has become a new force, not because they suddenly broke out, but because they were ignored for too long

It's not the first time that women's boxing has achieved good results. Four years ago in London, in the first competition of women's boxing returning to the Olympic arena, Ren Cancan, a flyweight (48-51KG), won the silver medal, and Li Jinzi, a middleweight (69-75KG), won the bronze medal. However, compared with the rapid progress of achievements, women's boxing has received too much attention.

Rogge worked hard when women's boxing entered the Olympic family

Women's boxing originated in Britain in 1720. In 1904, it was selected as a performance event in the Olympic Games. Since then, women's boxing has disappeared quietly. Most countries in the 20th century have banned women's boxing competitions. Until the 1990s, there was no unified women's boxing event in the world. Opponents insist that boxing is a sport only for men, and women's boxing is unacceptable. In the past two decades, gender equality has gradually become the mainstream consciousness of the world. Women's boxing was listed in the International Amateur Boxing Federation in 1996, and it took another 16 years to return to the Olympic Games.

It is worth mentioning that the decision to join the International Boxing Federation through women's boxing was made in Beijing on November 24, 1994. It can be said that this project has forged an indissoluble bond with China from the very beginning. In 2001, the women's boxing event finally had a world championship. The first world championship produced a total of 12 gold medals, of which the Chinese player Zhang Maomao won the 57KG championship. She became the first world champion in China's women's boxing history. Since then, Zhang Xiyan has won the 54kg champion of the second World Championships, and Li Jinzi has won the 75kg runner up of the fourth World Championships. At the fifth World Championships in 2008, Chinese women generals won five gold medals at one fell swoop to dominate the world. At that time, the eyes of the people all over the country were focused on the Beijing Olympic Games. No one cared about these heroines who shed sweat and blood on the boxing ring and won honor for the motherland.

It was not until August 13, one year later, when the IOC held its Executive Committee in Berlin, that women's boxing was officially recognized as the official event of the 2012 London Olympic Games. This is also the last Olympic project to achieve gender equality. Rogge, then the president of the International Olympic Committee, was a boxing doctor. Without his strong promotion, boxing would continue to be "lame" in the Olympic Games. 【 detailed 】

two 400 people, 8 boxing champions, low cost Olympic project "fighting chicken blood"

For an unexpected sport, being selected for the Olympic Games means that it has obtained development opportunities. In August 2009, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that women's boxing became an official event of the London Olympic Games, and the first women's boxing event was set up at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. After Ren Cancan won the silver medal in the London Olympic Games and Li Jinzi won the bronze medal, the women's boxing project of the 2013 Liaoning National Games was approved. It is easy to see what the General Administration of Sport is going to do for a project with a glorious history and three new gold medals.

Zhang Xiyan shows her golden belt. The competition in the women's boxing world championship is not too big

Before the women's boxing was selected for the Olympic Games in 2009, a total of 7 Chinese women's boxers had won the championship in the five world championships. The lack of fierce competition made China see the hope of winning medals. Zhang Maomao is the first world champion of women's boxing in China. Before joining the World Championships in 2001, Zhang Maomao learned that his first opponent was a famous Romanian player who had won the European Championships. She called her mother nervously. Her mother comforted her and said, "Don't be afraid, even if you can't win, you should also be a learning experience.". As a result, after coming on the stage the next day, Zhang Maomao put his opponent to the ground with two heavy fists, and then went all the way to win the championship. After playing all the invincible players in domestic invitational competitions, it was hard to win a defeat in the world.

The same example also happened to Gao Lijun, the champion of the 2006 World Boxing Championship, and Zhang Xiyan, the winner of the 2006 International Women's Boxing Association's super lightweight gold belt. These girls, who have experienced hard training in China and always thought how powerful and tough foreign opponents are, found it so easy to win the match when they really stepped onto the court. Gao Lijun used to practice Sanda, and became the champion of transformation boxing half a year ago. Zhang Xiyan has three gold belts on her waist. Only professional boxers can cause her some trouble. Although professional boxers are allowed to participate in the Olympic Games this year, and the rules are also close to professional competition, women's boxing is still not comparable to professional boxing, This is also the main reason why Chinese female boxers can achieve good results.

It was also after women's boxing became an official Olympic event that the boxers got better treatment. Ren Cancan once recalled that before women's boxing became an Olympic event, her training conditions, equipment and equipment, including the living conditions of athletes, could not be compared with other events, because even if a world champion was cultivated, No one paid attention. When you enter the Olympic Games, the level is completely different. At that time, the key players of the Chinese boxing team were Ren Cancan and Li Jinzi. Dong Cheng participated in the London Olympic Games but failed to qualify. The three men were equipped with five medical security personnel, which increased a lot from training conditions to personal income.

The equipment cost is too high. Women's folk boxing depends on their love of this sport

Even so, the cost of training a female boxer is still far lower than that of other events. In 2004, there was a media report that the cost of training Liu Xiang as a world champion exceeded 3 million yuan a year. Sun Yang, who shone brilliantly at the London Olympic Games in 2012, earned an annual salary of 1 million yuan for his coach Dennis, and spent more than 10 million yuan on overseas training for more than two years, The most expensive thing is shooting. If we use the standard equipment of the Olympic Games for training, a shooter will kill tens of thousands of yuan just by bullets on a training day.

What about boxing? A field, a pair of boxing gloves, sandbags, protective gear, shoes and other training equipment, the biggest expense is the food and medical security of the team members. Similar projects also include gymnastics, weightlifting. Therefore, we tend to invest great efforts in these projects to get as many gold medals as possible at the minimum cost of money. However, women's boxing was not valued after all. It was the same in the world, as in China. At the London Olympic Games in 2012, coach Tian Dong brought out the three competitors. At that time, there were only about 400 women boxers in China. In the past Olympic cycle, because women's boxing entered the Asian Games and the National Games, the number of athletes has increased, and the overall number is still far less than other major events. However, after being linked to the Olympic Games, the Chinese female boxers still won two gold medals in the 12 year World Championships. Up to that time, a total of 8 women had won the championship, with obvious results.

In addition, Chinese female boxers have a characteristic that they basically practice boxing in transition. When Ren Cancan was 14 years old, he was selected by the track and field team of the sports school to practice hurdles. Yin Junhua was a sanda player before 2008, and Li Qian was transformed from a women's basketball guard to a boxer in 2007. The experience accumulated in other events before can provide some help for women boxers, such as Ren Cancan's footsteps and Li Qian's height and arm span, but it also shows that women's boxing in China, After all, there is no mass base. 【 detailed 】

three Take the gold belt prize of 5000 yuan as the title of Olympic disposable boxing champion

In 2013, Zou Shiming, the boxing champion of the two Olympic Games, was transformed into a professional. At that time, many domestic boxing fans praised him. They said that with his level, he could have been popular in the professional boxing arena in the past four years, but he received four years' death pay for Chinese boxing to make a difference in the London Olympic Games. Now, three years later, Zou Shiming has been doing well in the professional boxing arena, and since the Olympic Games this year, the International Olympic Committee has also allowed professional boxers to participate in the Olympic Games. From this point of view, the Olympic Games and professional double handedness are a way out for boxers, especially women's boxing, which is just starting now. In fact, the promotion and development of women's boxing is far from being comparable to men's boxing.

In the past 100 years, women's boxing has been banned in various countries in the world. A few years ago, women entered the Olympic Games for the reason of "not letting men's boxing limp". It can be seen that the boxing ring is still the world of men. Women's boxing has low attention and low income.

The income of professional competitions is higher than that of amateurs, but it is not much higher in women's boxing. Xu Chunyan, a Ningbo boxer who once won the 57KG national elite championship, was transformed from "within the system" to a professional in 2013. The professional competition is more free, without the constraints of large-scale events. Xu Chunyan likes it very much. She has won the gold belt of the "Happy New Year Cup" WBC championship for 14 years, and the gold belt of the "China Thailand Cup" WBA championship for 15 years. What's the result? The appearance fee of a game is only 5000 dollars at most. After deducting the fees of agents and coaches, only half of the players can get it. Until now, Xu Chunyan has often asked her family for money, and she also wanted to return to the system. After all, she managed to pay her salary. "There is nothing you need to worry about." Xu Chunyan said, but the Olympic women's boxing group does not have 57KG. If you want to go up or down, it is too difficult to go back.

Before her, Zhang Xiyan, the lightweight champion of the Women's Boxing Association in 2006. She was the first world champion of professional women's boxing in China. The reason why she turned to her profession at the beginning was that she could not see the hope of women's boxing entering the Olympic Games. A few years later, women's boxing successfully entered the Olympic Games. Zhang Xiyan returned to amateur boxing. As a result, the International Amateur Boxing Federation of London Olympic Games in 2012 did not allow boxers who had played professional boxing to participate in the Olympic Games, In addition to personal status, group competition and other reasons, the trip failed.

Cai Zongju is the best player in the professional competition at present. She switched to the professional competition only when her professional team's performance was not good. It can be said that she has made a big difference

Zhang Xiyan's professional competition income is higher than Xu Chunyan's, and the appearance fee can be up to 20000 dollars, but she is not at the peak after all. The professionalization of women's boxing has a long way to go. Tian Dong, who once took the post of Cancan, said: "Professional boxing has its own way of playing. A successful athlete needs not only strength, but also someone to run competition promotion and packaging." Of course, the best way is to get support from the government and enterprises, but it seems unrealistic now, However, I don't know where to go through commercial promotion, including brokers, coaches and boxers themselves. At present, Cai Zongju, a sister from Yantai, has the best record in professional boxing. She has four-star strength (Zou Shiming, by contrast, has only two and a half stars). At the beginning, she turned to professional boxing because she could not play in a professional team. It is strange. From her future development, we may see the future direction of women's boxing.

These are the most successful female boxers who have retired from the system. Being a fitness coach is a better way for them. However, the salary of thousands of yuan a month is better than staying in the system. With the return of women's boxing to the Olympic arena, the Olympic champion is certainly a good promotion channel, but as long as you join the Olympic preparation team, you are doomed to be out of luck with professional boxers. The case of Zou Shiming is ahead. The monthly salary of 2000 yuan is very different from the appearance fee of 700000 dollars, because the leader of the Sports Bureau said that he waited until he was 31 years old to embark on a career path. The problem is that the current women's boxing, within and outside the system, is at most the difference between the appearance fee of thousands of yuan and thousands of dollars. 【 detailed 】