On the evening of June 30, a sad news came from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, that Zhang Zhijie, a player of the national youth badminton team, suddenly fainted on the court during the last game of the group stage of the badminton Asian Youth Championships, and finally failed to rescue him, and died at 23:20 local time on June 30 at the age of 17.
The Chinese Badminton Association said that the cause of the disease has not yet been determined by local hospitals.
However, according to the analysis of many medical experts, Zhang Zhijie's unfortunate death was most likely due to sudden cardiac death.
Sudden cardiac death is when the heart suddenly stops beating, causing the blood supply to the brain and other vital organs to be interrupted.
Medical V "Emergency Stone Brother" said that high-intensity and continuous sports such as badminton are prone to respiratory and cardiac arrest. In the last European Cup, Danish star Eriksen fainted at the scene, and it is because he received timely and high-quality rescue (high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED use), so he is now recovering well.
Xu Zhimin, deputy chief physician of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine of Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, emphasized that the golden time for sudden cardiac death is 4 minutes. If a patient has sudden cardiac death, failure to perform effective CPR within 4 minutes can lead to brain death.
After the sad news of Zhang Zhijie's death, many Chinese badminton stars expressed their condolences and sorrow, and some revealed that they had also suffered heart problems during their sports careers.
Olympic champion Cai Yun revealed that he withdrew from the national team after the 2001 National Games, and underwent cardiac radiofrequency ablation in Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital in January 2002, recovered for most of the year, and returned to the national team in July.
Zhu Junchang, a famous general, said that he had been hospitalized in Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital for more than a month because of heart problems, and then slowly recovered before he began to gradually resume training, and it is hard to imagine how uncomfortable Zhang Zhijie's family is.
In the world of badminton, there have been tragedies of athletes dying of heart problems before.
In March 2018, former men's doubles world No. 1 and South Korean star Jung Jae-sung died of a heart attack in his sleep at the age of 35.
Jeong Jae-sung died unexpectedly
In June 2021, the Beijing Olympic men's doubles champion and Indonesian star Makis died of a heart attack while playing at the age of 36.
(Michau Sports)