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On August 1, 2024, the Paris Olympics shooting men's rifle 50-meter three-position final began.
Liu Yukun took the penultimate shot and scored a high score of 10.9 rings. In the end, he won the 10th gold medal for the Chinese sports delegation with an excellent score of 2.3 rings over the second place.
Liu Yukun's shooting road was full of ups and downs, and with the encouragement of his wife, he fought back and won the reputation of "Sanqin Gun King".
Liu Yukun's family is not wealthy, and after winning the championship, he has one of his greatest wishes, which is to help his mother cure his heart disease......
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(Liu Yukun in the game)
The 50-meter rifle 3-position competition refers to the shooting competition, which includes three postures: kneeling, lying and standing, which not only tests the shooting level, but also tests the physical flexibility and psychological quality of the athletes.
The 50m rifle 3 positions competition is the dominant event of the mainland sports delegation, Qiu Jian won the gold medal in the Beijing Olympics and Zhang Changhong at the Tokyo Olympics.
In March 2024, after Liu Yukun qualified for the Olympics, he warned himself in his heart: win the three-position championship and defend the national honor. However, his road to winning the title was full of twists and turns......
In July 2024, after Liu Yukun arrived in Paris, France, he first encountered "water and soil dissatisfaction". Due to his lack of adaptation to the climate, venue, and equipment, his psychology fluctuated, and it was often difficult to hit 10 rings in a row during training.
(Liu Yukun and coach)
Liu Yukun's pursuit of perfection and perfection made him anxious.
The accompanying psychologist took the initiative to chat with Liu Yukun, asking him to adjust his breathing, relax his mind, and face the next game in the state of usual training.
Liu Yukun gradually found his feeling and played better and better. In the qualifying round on July 31, with the sound of gunshots, Liu Yukun rode into the dust, leaving many foreign players behind, and entered the final with the first place.
At 15:30 on August 1, the men's 50-meter three-position final of the Paris Olympics officially kicked off at the Paris Chateauroux Shooting Center.
In the finals, the results of all the qualifying rounds were not counted, and Liu Yukun and all the runners stood on the same starting line again.
(Liu Yukun in the final)
After 15 shots each in the kneeling position and lying position, Liu Yukun ranked second with a slight disadvantage of 0.6 rings.
The last event was the standing competition, and Norway's Hagrid, who was previously in front of Liu Yukun, was directly eliminated from the competition because he was too nervous and had a series of long bullets (the bullet landed far from the target and failed to hit the target accurately).
Liu Yukun didn't have time to catch his breath, and Ukraine's Kurish came from behind, surpassing Liu Yukun in the total number of rings.
Liu Yukun adjusted his breathing, kept his arms and body stable, raised the gun, aimed, and pulled the trigger in one go, and the more he hit, the smoother he became.
(Liu Yukun)
In the penultimate shot, Liu Yukun actually scored an excellent score of 10.9 rings. In the end, Liu Yukun successfully overtook Ukraine's Curry and successfully won the championship with a total score of 463.6 rings, winning the 10th gold medal of the Paris Olympics for the Chinese sports delegation.
Far away in Xi'an, China, the Shaanxi Provincial Shooting and Archery Sports Management Center, more than 300 athletes and coaches gathered together. The moment Liu Yukun won the championship, everyone cheered excitedly, waved the national flag, and then sang the national anthem in unison.
Liu Yukun's parents and grandmother watched the live broadcast of the event at their home in Beilin District, Xi'an, Shaanxi, and they also shed tears of happiness and excitement......
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Liu Yukun was born on April 12, 1997 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, and his father Liu Yonghong and mother both worked in a military industrial unit.
(Liu Yukun's parents)
When he was a child, Liu Yukun's eyes were big, like two black grapes, and he looked very cute. He loves to read, he loves to use his brain, and he loves to ask his parents "why".
When he was in elementary school, Liu Yukun was fascinated by basketball and Go, and he leaped on the basketball court, sitting in front of the chess table for an hour.
Liu Yukun not only has good academic performance, but also uses his spare time to obtain the amateur second dan certificate of Go.
At that time, Liu Yonghong and his wife did not have high requirements for their son, and only hoped that he could be admitted to a decent university in the future and live a 9-to-5 white-collar life after graduation.
(Liu Yukun's alma mater)
(The fifth from the left in the fourth row is Liu Yukun during primary school)
In 2009, Liu Yukun was admitted to the famous Xi'an No. 26 Middle School from Jianguo Road Primary School in Beilin District with excellent results.
In the second semester of the second year of junior high school, Liu Yukun's fate changed. In physical education class that day, the coach of the Xi'an shooting team came to the school to select seedlings, and the other party fell in love with Liu Yukun, who had long legs, long arms, wide shoulders and high hips, and decided that he was a good seedling for practicing rifles.
As a boy, he was naturally interested in firearms and shooting, and Liu Yukun was very excited to learn that he could go to a sports school to practice shooting.
After returning home, Liu Yukun told his parents about the incident, working in the military industrial unit for many years, Liu Yonghong has a strong military complex, and he and his wife both support their son to practice shooting.
However, Liu Yonghong made a request to his son: if you want to practice, you must practice and never give up halfway.
(Liu Yukun in the early years)
Liu Yukun immediately expressed his determination to his parents: Don't worry, I will never embarrass you and your mother, and I will decorate your bookcase with medals.
At the age of 14, he only touched the gun, and he started very late among shooting athletes, and in the Xi'an shooting team, there are many students who are younger than Liu Yukun, and the shooting level is far above him.
In order to shorten the gap between himself and his teammates, Liu Yukun is the most diligent member of the shooting team. At the end of each day's training, he took the initiative to ask for more training. As long as the coach is free, he begs the other party to open a small stove for himself.
Before going to bed at night, other athletes either played online games or watched online dramas, while Liu Yukun closed his eyes and reviewed the training situation during the day.
Even if he goes home on weekends, Liu Yukun will also bring teaching materials with him, focusing on learning and self-improvement anytime and anywhere.
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(Liu Yukun and mentor Qin Guofu)
In August 2014, Liu Yukun went to Baoji to participate in the 15th Provincial Games and won the championship in the men's rifle 50-meter three-position competition.
With this brilliant result, Liu Yukun was promoted to the second team of Shaanxi Province at the end of this year, focusing on the 50-meter rifle event.
Here, Liu Yukun met his mentor, senior shooting coach Qin Guofu. Qin Guofu practiced shooting in his early years and won the national championship, and the famous shooting athlete Hou Kai came from his disciple.
Qin Guofu soon noticed that Liu Yukun was unusual.
Before training, other team members prepared one by one, but Liu Yukun could always complete it in the shortest time, and then leisurely swiped his mobile phone.
(Liu Yukun)
Once the scoreboard broke, other athletes were flustered and at a loss, but Liu Yukun was still able to play well in the case of blind play.
Privately, Qin Guofu encouraged Liu Yukun: The provincial second team is not a place for you to stay for a long time, and strive to enter the national team as soon as possible. Liu Yukun nodded seriously.
In the shooting event, practicing rifle is the most tiring, and athletes wear bulky training clothes in both spring, summer, autumn and winter. This kind of training clothes is leather, with a certain thickness and strength, especially in summer, it is not breathable to wear on the body, and sweat runs down the neck and back.
In addition, practicing rifle shooting is a severe test of physical endurance and stability. After entering the second provincial team, Liu Yukun's training volume increased sharply, and he had to hold a gun 400 times a day, and at the end of the evening training, his shoulders, arms, and neck were sore.
(Liu Yukun's father)
In 2015, the team had a 3-day vacation, and Liu Yukun went home. From the moment he entered the door, he was sullen, thinking that he would return to the provincial team to train in two days, and every hour that passed, the heaviness in his heart increased a few points.
Liu Yonghong seemed to see through his son's thoughts, and reminded: Don't forget the determination you made to me at the beginning, my bookcase is still empty, and I need you to decorate it with a gold medal.
Mother encouraged Liu Yukun: It only took you one year to be selected for the second provincial team, which proves that you are not ordinary from ordinary athletes, and the more difficult times are, the more you must see hope and light.
On the day he returned to the team, his father sent him far away and advised: "Returning to the team and practicing hard, your mother and I feel that you will win gold and silver in the competition in the future, and we feel that our days are rushing."
(Liu Yukun)
At that moment, Liu Yukun's eyes were moist, he was the hope and future of his parents, and there was no reason to be afraid of difficulties and lazy.
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After returning to the provincial team, in order not to disappoint his parents, Liu Yukun completed the training task with quality and quantity in order to prove himself, and asked the veteran players and coaches for advice when he encountered technical problems that he did not understand.
Qin Guofu especially appreciated Liu Yukun's diligence and began to let him participate in some important competitions.
In the 2016 National Shooting Championships, Liu Yukun won three gold medals in the men's 50-meter rifle three-position, the men's 10-meter air rifle and the men's 50-meter rifle prone shooting.
In the same year, at the Asian Shooting Championships, Liu Yukun lived up to expectations and won the men's 10-meter air rifle championship and the team championship.
(Liu Yukun)
(Liu Yukun (right) and the national team coach)
With a series of excellent results, in the winter of 2016, Liu Yukun was officially selected for the national team.
Soon after entering the national team, Liu Yukun made a fuss.
A relevant leader raided the dormitory, walked into Liu Yukun's room, and found more than 20 empty beer bottles on the windowsill.
The national team has rules that strict athletes drink in private, and the leader is ready to punish Liu Yukun, who shouts "wronged".
It turned out that those empty wine bottles were borrowed by Liu Yukun from the cafeteria, and they were props for him to practice aiming. In order to shorten the gap between himself and the veteran players as soon as possible, Liu Yukun exercised his eyesight on the wine bottle on the balcony every day and practiced aiming hard.
Knowing what happened, the relevant leaders not only did not punish Liu Yukun, but praised him in public at the regular meeting.
(Liu Yukun)
However, after entering the national team, Liu Yukun seems to have fallen into a strange circle, in various competitions, in addition to winning a few championships, most of the rest are silver medals, becoming a veritable "second millennium" in the team.
In the 2017 Shooting World Cup India, Liu Yukun won the silver medal in the men's 50m rifle prone shooting.
In the June 2018 National Shooting Championships, Liu Yukun partnered with Pei Ruijiao to win the silver medal in the air rifle mixed team.
In the shooting World Cup in February 2019, Liu Yukun won the silver medal in the men's 10m air rifle.
(Zhang Changhong at the Tokyo Olympics)
In the 14th National Games in September 2021, Liu Yukun lost to Olympic champion Zhang Changhong by a slight disadvantage of 0.1 rings and won the second place in the men's 50m rifle three positions.
In the face of the TV interview, Liu Yukun looked helpless: I tried my best, but I was still 0.1 rings short. The host actually laughed unkindly.
At the trough of the movement, Liu Yukun ushered in a love in the city.
His girlfriend is an intellectual woman, dignified and beautiful, proficient in English, she and Liu Yukun are of the same age and have similar interests. Liu Yukun is very protective of his girlfriend and has always refused to disclose her name and occupation.
(Liu Yukun and his girlfriend)
Love intoxicates and matures. learned that Liu Yukun's grades had been stagnant, and his girlfriend analyzed the reasons with him and sought countermeasures.
At the suggestion of his girlfriend, Liu Yukun bought some philosophical and psychological books to strengthen himself spiritually. encountered depression and depression during training, and Liu Yukun confided in his girlfriend through WeChat.
The girlfriend is delicate, knows how to empathize, and leads Liu Yukun to grow up with female tenderness.
Under the nourishment of love, Liu Yukun's mentality became more and more stable, and his state began to gradually pick up.
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(Liu Yukun in the game)
On August 24, 2022, Liu Yukun won the first place in the men's 50m rifle three positions at the National Shooting Championships.
In October 2022, Liu Yukun participated in the International Shooting Federation Rifle Pistol Shooting Championships and successfully got a ticket to the Paris Olympics.
can make gratifying progress, inseparable from the encouragement and guidance of his girlfriend, Liu Yukun is full of gratitude to her.
After two years of dating, their love matured, and in 2023, Liu Yukun and his girlfriend got married in Xi'an in a low-key manner.
The two did not have a honeymoon, and on the 4th day after marriage, Liu Yukun returned to the national team and began to separate from his new wife.
(Wedding photos of Liu Yukun and his wife)
After becoming a family, Liu Yukun has more sense of responsibility, and every time he competes, he admonishes himself in his heart to fight for his wife, for his small family, and for the motherland.
Inspired by love, Liu Yukun will start the champion harvesting mode from 2023.
On July 30, 2023, Liu Yukun won the gold medal in the men's 50m rifle three-position team at the 31st Summer Universiade.
In the shooting World Cup Brazil in September 2023, Liu Yukun won the championship in the men's 50m rifle three-position competition, hitting 460.1 rings.
On May 9, 2024, Liu Yukun set a new world record with 467.3 rings in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event at the International Shooting Federation World Cup in Azerbaijan and won the championship.
(Liu Yukun)
With the blessing of a series of excellent results, Liu Yukun has won the reputation of "Sanqin Gun King".
Every time Liu Yukun wins the championship, he can receive a congratulatory text message from his wife as soon as possible, although they are not together, their hearts have never been far away.
On August 1, 2024, after Liu Yukun won the championship in the men's 50-meter rifle three-position final at the Paris Olympics, his wife posted on his personal social platform: My brother has a very good job this time!
This meaningful blessing touched thousands of netizens.
After Liu Yukun won the championship, he told the media about his holiday plan: two days to Qinling, two days to fish, three days to play games, and then a self-driving trip with his parents and lovers to go shopping in Qinling!
However, after reading a report on the Internet, Liu Yukun cried and changed his mind.
It turned out that the news report said that Liu Yukun's mother had a bad heart. On the day of her son's finals, she didn't dare to watch the live broadcast. Her husband, Liu Yonghong, was worried that his wife would have a heart attack, so she hid in her bedroom and broadcast her son's results in each round in the living room.
When she learned that Liu Yukun had won the championship, her mother walked out of the bedroom and cried into tears.
After reading the report, Liu Yukun burst into tears. He decided to change his vacation plans and try to do everything he could to help his mother get her heart attack.
I wish Liu's mother a speedy recovery, and I wish Liu Yukun's dream come true!
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