<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > introduction:</h1>
The spirit of tenacious fighting and brave struggle of the Chinese women's volleyball team has been widely spread and well-known. Nowadays, the spirit of the women's volleyball team inspires and inspires people from all walks of life to strive for their respective positions.
In 1981, in the third Volleyball World Cup held in Japan, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the world championship for the first time with a record of seven complete victories. Since then, the Chinese women's volleyball team has become more and more courageous in the war, and the momentum is like a bamboo.
In 1981, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the world championship for the first time
In the following five years, the Chinese women's volleyball team created the first "five consecutive championships" in the history of world volleyball in the World Cup, the World Championships and the Olympic Games.
Behind this glory, Yuan Weimin, the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, is indispensable, and he is the founder of the women's volleyball career.
How did Yuan Weimin embark on a volleyball career? How did he lead the Chinese women's volleyball team to achieve a leap from second-rate to top-notch? How did he discover Lang Ping and train her to become the world's top attacker? What was the life of Yuan Weimin, who is more than eighty years old, in his later years?
Let's start with Yuan Weimin, who was not very interested in volleyball, to embark on a volleyball career.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="108" >, Yuan Weimin's volleyball career</h1>
Yuan Weimin was born on July 8, 1939, to a family of vegetable farmers on the outskirts of Suzhou. My parents are simple and industrious farmers, although the life is not very rich, but because the parents are down-to-earth, the life is also peaceful and happy, there is no shortage of food and clothing.
Yuan Weimin
Yuan Weimin has a total of six brothers and sisters, and he is old and young. Although he was deeply cared for and loved by his parents and siblings, Yuan Weimin was not a child who was dependent on others and arrogant. On the contrary, the childhood Yuan Weimin's personality is very self-reliant, strong, and willing to do things and endure hardships.
It is precisely because of this personality that Yuan Weimin is very hard in his studies, plus he is relatively smart, so his results have always been excellent.
Not only has excellent results, Yuan Weimin also has outstanding athletic talent. Athletics, football, basketball and other sports are his hobbies and strengths.
In today's parlance, Yuan Weimin is what parents call "someone else's child." Yuan Weimin has always been excellent in terms of morality, intellect and body.
When Yuan Weimin was in middle school, once the recruiter of an aviation school of the Air Force came to his school to "recruit flying" (the seedlings who selected pilots). Like other male classmates, Yuan Weimin has a heroic dream of flying a fighter jet to soar into the blue sky, so he also signed up for this "recruitment flight".
Yuan Weimin's results were excellent, there was no problem, and the initial examination of the physical examination was also passed, which made him doubly confident and dreamed of becoming a handsome air force pilot.
Unexpectedly, in the physical examination and re-examination, Yuan Weimin was found to have a small problem with a joint (the physical examination of pilots in China is very strict, and his joint problems are not a problem at all in other industries, but they do not meet the physical examination standards of Chinese pilots), which makes him miss the dream of pilots.
Due to his athletic talent and good basketball foundation, Yuan Weimin was soon hit by volleyball coach Zhang Ranxiang. In this way, Yuan Weimin, who was originally more interested in basketball and not very interested in volleyball, has since formed an indissoluble relationship with volleyball.
In 1958, at the age of 19, Yuan Weimin entered the Nanjing Institute of Physical Education, and in the same year, he entered the Jiangsu Men's Volleyball Team, serving as a second setter in the team.
The second setter plays the task of organizing the attack with the second pass in the volleyball team, and is a key player in the implementation of attack and tactical application. It requires a flexible mind, adaptability, and control of the big picture.
Talent is important, Yuan Weimin's outstanding athletic talent has made him stand out from many ordinary high school students and be selected by the coach. However, if you want to stand out from many volleyball players who also have extraordinary athletic talent, you must go through hard training and immersion in research.
Yuan Weimin's height is only one meter eight, although compared with ordinary people, such a height is not short, but in the average height of nearly two meters of men's volleyball players, Yuan Weimin's height does not have any advantage.
However, Yuan Weimin has a strong nature, does not accept defeat, can bear hardships, he is very strict with himself, training is very hard, and can concentrate on researching technology.
Yuan Weimin attaches great importance to basic exercises, and in order to improve his speed and strength, he often practices an action repeatedly until he thinks it is "up to standard".
Not only that, Yuan Weimin will carefully observe and study the offensive habits of the main attackers in the team, including the offensive height, position, timing, etc., in order to pass the ball to the most comfortable position of the main attacker, so as to organize an effective attack.
Chinese women's volleyball competition in 1984
It is precisely because of the hard training and careful research that Yuan Weimin's volleyball skills and abilities have improved by leaps and bounds.
Because of his technical skills, in 1962, Yuan Weimin was selected into the national men's volleyball team, serving as the main second setter in the team, and also the captain.
However, at that time, the strength of the Chinese men's volleyball team and the world's top level were still far behind. Yuan Weimin's highest honor during his service with the national team was only a bronze medal at the 1974 Asian Games.
Soon after, the 35-year-old Yuan Weimin retired. After retiring from the army, Yuan Weimin continued to work in volleyball until 1976, when he was appointed as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Although Yuan Weimin did not achieve remarkable achievements during his tenure as a volleyball player, his 16-year career as a volleyball player not only gave him a deep understanding and rich experience in volleyball, but also forged his spirit of hard-working, hard work, tenacious fighting and brave struggle.
Yuan Weimin and the Chinese women's volleyball girls
This also laid a deep foundation for Yuan Weimin, who later served as a volleyball coach, to lead the Chinese women's volleyball team to create brilliance.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="109" > two, "devil" style training, leading the Chinese women's volleyball team to create brilliance</h1>
When Yuan Weimin first served as the head coach of the women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team had never won a championship in Asia, and there was a big gap from the world's top level.
However, Yuan Weimin not only has a love for the volleyball cause and the momentum of not accepting defeat, but also has the dream and determination to lead the Chinese women's volleyball team out of Asia and into the world.
Therefore, Yuan Weimin's training requirements for the women's volleyball girls are extremely strict, and can even be described as cruel. In the eyes of the women's volleyball girls, Yuan Weimin is an iron-faced "devil" coach.
Yuan Weimin assisted the women's volleyball team members in training physical fitness
At that time, the highest record of the Japanese team, the veteran strong team of the women's volleyball team, was four hundred times, but Yuan Weimin asked the women's volleyball players to break through the limit and practice five hundred times.
Five hundred seems to us to be a simple number now, but the women's volleyball players who participated in the training at that time clearly understood what this five hundred meant.
According to the original women's volleyball player Chen Zhaodi recalled, at that time to the end of the training, the vision was blurred, watching the volleyball was ghosted, and even wanted to die.
Cao Huiying, a former women's volleyball player, was injured and deformed due to long-term high-intensity receiving training, resulting in injuries and deformations in the little thumb joint of her right hand, and it is still difficult to return to normal, and the pain she endured at that time was unimaginable to ordinary people.
The little thumb of the former women's volleyball player Cao Huiying's right hand was deformed
According to the recollections of the sparring staff, the girls in the women's volleyball team were "tortured" very badly at that time, and the sparring staff could not even bear to watch.
However, even so, no player is willing to give up the opportunity to train because they want to win.
Once, when Yuan Weimin and the women's volleyball team members visited Springs, Colorado, the United States, a twenty-hour flight coupled with the highland climate of Colorado made the women's volleyball players who had just got off the plane vomit.
What people did not expect was that Yuan Weimin did not let the women's volleyball team rest, but immediately took them to the training ground for training. The women's volleyball team can only endure the extreme discomfort of the body to participate in high-intensity training.
This scene was seen by the American reporters who were preparing to interview, and they were very shocked and could not understand "what materials this Chinese women's volleyball girls are made of."
Iron-faced coach Yuan Weimin supervised the players in practicing catching the ball
Yuan Weimin believes that strength is the short board of the Chinese women's volleyball team. In order to make up for the lack of strength, Yuan Weimin came up with an unprecedented training method.
He issued an invitation to the provincial men's volleyball team and asked the men's volleyball team members to give the women's volleyball team a sparring partner. The men's volleyball sparring of the provincial teams has arrived, and the "nightmare" of the women's volleyball girls has begun.
The training task is very heavy, and the women's volleyball team is exhausted after each training, and their bodies are sore, and they are eager to collapse to the ground. But they can't fall down, because there are still men's volleyball sparring partners waiting for them.
The slam strength of the men's volleyball sparring is naturally much larger than that of the women's volleyball sparring, and under their powerful slam, the volleyball smashes at high speed to the sour women's volleyball girls, almost knocking them unconscious.
Former women's volleyball player Zhang Rongfang
But Yuan Weimin knows that only by training in this way can our women's volleyball team be able to play with ease in the face of the strong smashes of other women's volleyball teams.
Under the high-intensity training of "Devil" coach Yuan Weimin, who is almost "deliberate torture", there are often some small emotions among the players.
For example, Zhang Rongfang once deliberately flew the ball; another time, Lang Ping deliberately pulled out a low-quality ball several times.
The "uprising" of the women's volleyball team will be "suppressed" by Yuan Weimin relentlessly every time. After they have made small emotions, what awaits them is a more "cruel" "torture".
However, the women's volleyball girls can only give in, because they do not want to give up, do not want to be deprived of the opportunity to train and compete, they want to win, they want to win for the glory of the country.
The Chinese women's volleyball team after winning the championship
It is difficult to clearly and completely show the arduous training of the women's volleyball team at that time in just a few paragraphs.
Under the "devil" training of Yuan Weimin, the strength of the Chinese women's volleyball team has made a qualitative leap.
In the process of the women's volleyball team's "rebirth from the fire", Yuan Weimin deeply branded the spirit of tenacious fighting and brave struggle on the Chinese women's volleyball team, and has been passed down from generation to generation.
After Yuan Weimin served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team for three years, that is, in 1979, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the Asian championship for the first time in the second Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, and since then rushed out of Asia and joined the team competing for the world championship.
Two years later, in 1981, in the third Volleyball World Cup held in Japan, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the old strong team Japan women's volleyball team that occupied the advantage of the home field and won the world championship for the first time.
Coach Yuan Weimin received the award
The Chinese women's volleyball team's victory this time is not a momentary luck, but a thick accumulation.
At the World Championships the following year, the Chinese women's volleyball team performed generally in the preliminary round, and if the rematch lost a round, it would not win the championship. Every young women's volleyball girl is under tremendous pressure.
In fact, Coach Yuan is under greater pressure at this time. However, in order to let the players unload their burdens and go into battle lightly, Yuan Weimin showed a confident and determined appearance in front of the team members, which made the women's volleyball team reduce some pressure.
As a result, the women's volleyball girls did not disappoint and won the world championship again.
At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1-3 to the host United States in the group stage. The Chinese women's volleyball players have a heavy heart and great pressure.
In 1984, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship
In the final, the Chinese women's volleyball team once again encountered the American team. Yuan Weimin told the team members to have confidence, concentrate, overcome the fluke mentality, and let go.
As a result, the women's volleyball girls defeated the American team with a score of 3-0 and achieved a "triple crown".
Until 1986, under the leadership of Yuan Weimin, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the first "five consecutive championships" in the history of world volleyball, creating the glory of Chinese volleyball.
In the rise of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Lang Ping has made great contributions as a personal participant. How did Yuan Weimin discover Lang Ping? And how did he cultivate Lang Ping?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="110" > third, the most proud disciple - Lang Ping</h1>
In 1975, Yuan Weimin had not yet served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, but he had begun to look for potential players for the women's volleyball team.
Lang Ping and Yuan Weimin
At the Beijing Sports School, Lang Ping, who is 1 meter 84 tall and has good bounce and arm span, has attracted the attention of Yuan Weimin, who is keenly aware that Lang Ping is a good seedling who plays volleyball.
However, Lang Ping was mainly engaged in athletics at that time, and long jump and high jump were her interests and strengths. Like Yuan Weimin, Lang Ping began to have little interest in volleyball. Therefore, Lang Ping refused Yuan Weimin's invitation.
Yuan Weimin was unwilling to give up such a good seedling, so he often appeared at the door of the Beijing Sports School, hoping to persuade Lang Ping to practice volleyball. His frequent appearances once made the doorman of the Beijing Sports School think that he was a bad person.
Yuan Weimin's persistence finally touched Lang Ping, and in 1976, at the age of sixteen, Lang Ping became a member of the Beijing women's volleyball team. Due to his talent and hard training, in just a few months, Lang Ping became the main force of the Beijing women's volleyball team.
Lang Ping in his youth
After Yuan Weimin served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, although the Chinese women's volleyball team underwent extremely intense "devil" training, it has made great progress in strength and height, and its overall strength has also been significantly improved. But Yuan Weimin believes that if we want to beat other strong teams, we must make breakthroughs and innovations in technology.
After carefully studying and analyzing the playing style of all the strong teams in Europe and the United States, Yuan Weimin believes that "strong attack" should become the main scoring means of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Then it is imperative to select and cultivate a tall, strong and fastest attacker. Yuan Weimin first thought of Lang Ping.
Yuan Weimin chose Lang Ping as the main attacker of the national team, which caused some people to question. They think that Lang Ping is too young, his football age is short, and he has no experience in big competitions, so it is difficult to carry such a heavy burden.
But Yuan Weimin believed in his own vision and believed in Lang Ping's potential. So he pushed against all odds and transferred Lang Ping from Beijing to the national team as the main attacker in 1978.
Lang Ping's classic slam dunk
As the "secret weapon" of the national team, Lang Ping received a more brutal special training than ordinary players. It is said that at that time, After Lang Ping finished training every day, he didn't even have the strength to go back to the dormitory, and he had to be supported by two teammates to return to the dormitory.
Kung Fu pays off, after a period of special training, Lang Ping's strength has improved by leaps and bounds, and the height of the touch has reached three meters and two. "Iron hammer" Lang Ping deservedly became the offensive core of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
The Chinese women's volleyball team created the "five consecutive championships" brilliantly in the 1980s, and Lang Ping, as the main attacker of the team, was indispensable.
When he won the championship in 1981, Lang Ping won the "Outstanding Athlete" award, and when he won the championship in 1982, Lang Ping won the "MVP" of the World Women's Volleyball Championship.
In 1985, after Lang Ping retired from the military, he went to the United States to study. She is very grateful to her mentor Yuan Weimin for her kindness and cultivation, and every New Year's Day, she will send sincere greetings and blessings to her on the other side of the ocean.
Lang Ping and his mentor Yuan Weimin
In 1995, Lang Ping served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team for the first time. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win a silver medal.
Later, Lang Ping had some foreign coaching experience. Until 2013, Lang Ping once again served as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Lang Ping, who is the head coach, has carried out drastic reforms to the Chinese women's volleyball team.
After three years of hard work, Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Until 2019, the Chinese women's volleyball team won a total of ten world championships in the past four decades. Such results are unattainable for other teams.
As a mentor, Yuan Weimin discovered Lang Ping and achieved Lang Ping, it can be said that without Yuan Weimin, there would be no Lang Ping's brilliant achievements.
Yuan Weimin and Lang Ping
Lang Ping also did not live up to her mentor Yuan Weimin, who made great contributions to the cause of the Chinese women's volleyball team with practical actions.
This also strongly proves the uniqueness of Yuan Weimin's vision. In a sense, Lang Ping also achieved Yuan Weimin.
Yuan Weimin also admitted that Lang Ping was his most proud disciple.
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In addition to the position of head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Yuan Weimin has also served as the executive chairman of the Beijing Olympic Bidding Committee, the chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee, and the director of the China General Administration of Sports.
In 2004, Yuan Weimin, director of the General Administration of Sports
Yuan Weimin made a contribution to the successful bid of Beijing in 2008. He devoted his life to the cause of sports in his homeland until 2004, when the sixty-five-year-old Yuan Weimin retired from the post of director of the General Sports Bureau.
After retirement, Yuan Weimin's life is very leisurely, he likes to read newspapers and cut newspapers. Whenever he saw a good article in the newspaper, he always liked to cut it out and collect it.
This habit allowed him to accumulate a wealth of knowledge, but also allowed him to have a unique insight into some things.
Elder Yuan also has a hobby, which is calligraphy. But whenever someone asked him for ink treasure, he always smiled and waved his hand and said, "I haven't practiced well enough." ”
In life, Elder Yuan is also a person with a heart, and he often helps his wife and children to do housework. Moreover, he also summarized a lot of home life tips, as well as waste utilization tips.
Elder Yuan also likes to play with his grandchildren, and he does not feel tired when he plays with his grandchildren with his energetic energy.
After retirement, Elder Yuan rarely appears in the public eye, but he still silently cares about the sports cause of the motherland, especially the volleyball cause.
Today, the eighty-three-year-old Yuan is still tough and looks younger than his peers. I think it's inseparable from his good life mentality and physical exercise.
Now the kind-looking Yuan Lao yanran is the image of a neighbor uncle, and it is difficult to think that he was once the iron-faced "devil" head coach who led the Chinese women's volleyball team to create brilliance all the way.
May Mr. Yuan Weimin live a long and healthy life and a happy life!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="112" > Conclusion:</h1>
Ice heart in creation
Finally, a small poem given to the Chinese women's volleyball team by Bingxin is used as the end of this article:
The flower of success,
People only admire her current brilliance!
But at the beginning of her bud,
Soaked with tears of struggle,
Sprinkled with a rain of sacrifice.