China's first ever Olympic gold medal landed, took root and blossomed in his shooting.

In the central square of the National Shooting Training Base, there is a striking sculpture, which is a gun and a special shooting pistol. The prototype of the sculpture is 1984, a gun that made history at the Los Angeles Olympic Games. It won the first Olympic gold medal for China.

Twenty-two years ago, this gun appeared in the shooting range of 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and was held by China shooter Xu Haifeng.

When the last bullet was fired, Xu Haifeng stood in the shooting position of less than 2 square meters, and wrote a brilliant stroke for China's Olympic history with this domestic competition gun. The Los Angeles Olympic Games cast China's first Olympic gold medal.

10 minutes later, the first press release reporting this incident was issued by Xinhua News Agency reporter: "Xu Haifeng, 27 years old, was an employee of Anhui Supply and Marketing Cooperative. After winning the gold medal, he told Xinhua News Agency: "Although he won the first place, his performance was not very high. He needs to work harder in the future to win honor for his country. "

China achieved a "zero breakthrough" in the Olympic Games, which made all China people feel happy and proud. In addition, people are surprised to find that the athletes who realized this long-cherished wish were also "workers of supply and marketing cooperatives".

Many people think of the supply and marketing personnel who carry a basket, travel across mountains and rivers, and deliver goods to their homes. It was a model of rural supply and marketing personnel praised by the film "Red Basket" in 1960s.

1 August, 9571day, Xu Haifeng was born in an ordinary family in Anhui, and he was introverted since childhood. But he also has his specialty, and he likes to shoot birds with slingshots since he was a child.

Surprisingly accurate, the nickname "Slingshot King" was his first title. Like boys of that age, teenage Xu Haifeng likes to dance with a gun and a stick.

Like the young people of that era, Xu Haifeng's greatest wish when he was young was to be a soldier. For him, a soldier can have a gun, and shooting with a gun is Xu Haifeng's greatest hobby.

1974, Xu Haifeng, who graduated from high school, signed up to join the army. At that time, young people signed up for the army with great enthusiasm. /kloc-Xu Haifeng, 0/7 years old, failed to do it. Obviously, among the many choices to sign up for the army, "Slingshot King" is not one in a hundred.

1975, 18-year-old Xu Haifeng went to the countryside and became an educated youth in Luobai commune. Later, she was recruited as a salesperson by the supply and marketing cooperative of Xinqiao District, Hexian County, Anhui Province, and worked for three years.

Ordinary grass-roots business work did not erase Xu Haifeng's interest in filming. He spent dozens of dollars he had accumulated for a long time.

The air gun I bought was absolutely a luxury at that time, which showed the special interest of grass-roots supply and marketing personnel in shooting.

Holding this ordinary air gun, aiming at the target has become his greatest pleasure after work. 1979, the coach of the shooting team of the county sports commission heard that there used to be a "slingshot king" in the county, and his air gun was also very accurate, so he recruited him to the shooting team for training. Xu Haifeng's chance to change his destiny was thus opened. At this time, it has been five years since China appeared in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Two years later, 1982, Xu Haifeng was selected as the Anhui shooting team. At that time, some people were worried about whether Xu Haifeng, 25, still had time to play well, but Xu Haifeng answered this question with the results of the competition. A year later, at the 5th National Games, Xu Haifeng won two silver medals in air pistol and pistol slow shooting, becoming a famous shooting range in China.

1984 On July 29th, the first day of the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games, the first gold medal of this Olympic Games will be produced in the men's 60-pistol slow-fire competition. Because the Soviet Union boycotted the Olympic Games held in the United States at that time and did not send a team to participate, this shooting competition, which was almost monopolized by the former Soviet Union, was full of suspense and attracted much attention.

At that time, Wang Yifu, the best performance of China shooting team, was also listed as the favourite to win the championship, while Xu Haifeng was left out in the cold.

Maybe Xu Haifeng didn't bear the pressure of grades. He raised his gun, aimed and pulled the trigger, just like he usually did in training. Unexpectedly, Xu Haifeng is completing the most important aiming shot in his life, with 60 bullets, each of which is creating a gold medal called "Zero Breakthrough".

Champion! Xu Haifeng succeeded, and China people succeeded. This is the moment when the history of China Olympic gold medal begins.

After the game, Xu Haifeng walked from the stadium to the lounge for nearly 20 minutes, but it was only 100 meter. Journalists from all over the world crowded around him, scrambling to interview the neglected China player, the champion who won the first Olympic gold medal for China.

China won the first gold medal in the Los Angeles Olympic Games, achieving the breakthrough of zero gold medal in the Olympic Games. The news quickly spread to the motherland thousands of miles away through modern media. However, the awarding ceremony of the shooting gallery was delayed.

Originally, the organizing committee of the shooting competition predicted that China athletes might win medals and prepared a China flag in advance, but unexpectedly, Xu Haifeng of China won the championship and Wang Yifu won the third place.

The top three must raise the national flag, so there is no five-star red flag, so the organizing Committee has to send someone to find it temporarily. The award ceremony, which was postponed for nearly an hour, began. This is the first award ceremony of the 23rd Olympic Games.

Ueberroth, President of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee: Please allow me to say a few words. What I want to tell you is that you are experiencing an event of great historical significance. Because the gold medal and bronze medal will be awarded to the same country. This country has never won a medal in Olympic history.

Samaranch, then president of the International Olympic Committee, personally came to the stadium to present the award to Xu Haifeng. He said excitedly, "Today is a great day in the sports history of China. I am honored to present the first gold medal to China athletes on the first day of the Olympic Games. "

Once the "Slingshot King", 27-year-old Xu Haifeng hung this special Olympic champion gold medal on his chest.

Attach a personal profile

Name: Xu Haifeng.

Gender: male

Date of birth: 1957-8- 1

Place of birth: Fujian

Sports: shooting

Best result: 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games shooting men's 50m pistol 60 gold.

Sports experience:

I like shooting birds with slingshots since I was a child. I haven't received professional shooting training, but I have been determined to be a sharpshooter since I was a child. With his outstanding efforts, he has developed superb shooting skills. 1982 joined the Anhui team and 1984 joined the national team.

Sports performance:

1983 won two silver medals in pistol slow fire and air pistol in the shooting competition of the 5th National Games.

1984 won the gold medal of men's air pistol in the 23rd Olympic Games.

1986 The 1st 10 Asian Games won the champion of self-selected pistol, the individual gold medal of air pistol and the champion of self-selected pistol team with 660 rings exceeding the world record.

1986 hit 662 rings in the national shooting events, exceeding the world record of slow shooting of small caliber self-selected pistols.

1990 won four gold medals at the Beijing Asian Games.

199 1 won the world air gun championship.

199 1 won five gold medals in the 7th Asian Championships.

1984 won the first gold medal in the Los Angeles Olympic Games, breaking the record of "zero" gold medal in China in Olympic history.

Honors won:

1984 was awarded the Sports Medal of Honor by the State Sports Commission.

1984 and 1986 were elected as the top ten athletes in China twice.

Current situation:

1after retiring at the end of 1994, he began to serve as the head coach of the women's pistol class of the national shooting team, and later served as the deputy head coach of the national shooting team. In March, 2000/kloc-0, he became the head coach of the national shooting team, and in June, he became the deputy director of the shooting center of the State Sports General Administration.

Teaching record:

1996 At the Atlanta Olympic Games, Xu Haifeng's Li Duihong won the championship.

In the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Xu Haifeng's teammate Tao Luna won the championship.

At the 23rd Olympic Games, he won the men's pistol championship with 60 slow shots, becoming the first gold medal winner in this Olympic Games and the first champion winner in the history of China Olympic Games, breaking the record of "zero" gold medal in the history of China Olympic Games. After coaching, he led the team members to win two Olympic gold medals. Xu Haifeng is a veritable gold medal athlete and gold medal coach.

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