As a young figure skater, Chen Lu showed her athletic and artistic talents in the early 1960s. She can complete five kinds of three-week jump (three-week jump on the outside of the back, three-week jump on the inside of the back, three-week jump on the inside of the back, three-week jump on the hook), two-and-a-half jump and three-week jump combined jump. Compared with the world's top athletes in the same period, including Christie Yamaguchi, Itō Midori, Togna Harding, Sua Bonali and Nancy Creaghan, Chen Lu can often complete more jumps. For example, in the free skating stage of 199 1 World Figure Skating Championships held in Munich, Germany, 14 years old, she completed seven three-week jumps (including a joint jump of the back ice three-week jump and the outer ice three-week jump), which exceeded the previous five. At that time, women's figure skating single skating had just entered the era of three-week jump, so young Chen Lu was widely concerned. American sports commentators at that time, such as Scott Hamilton and Sandra Basque, all praised her talent.

199 1 In autumn, she became the first figure skater from China to compete in the United States. In the American leg of this Figure Skating Championship Series (later renamed Grand Prix) held in Oakland, California, she won the fourth place, while Kristi Yamaguchi and Togna Harding who participated together were the world champions and runners-up.

Chen Lu won the third place in the 1992 World Youth Figure Skating Championship, and then the sixth place in the 16 Winter Olympics. In this Winter Olympics, her jumping ability was fully demonstrated. For example, she is one of the few athletes who tried to finish the hook three-week jump in the joint jump. Although she completed this complicated joint jump, she was only ranked 11th after the short program stage due to problems in other prescribed movements. In the subsequent free skating stage, she completed six three-week jumps, more than the previous five. She is also the only player in the top six of this Winter Olympics who didn't fall in the jumping session. Chen Lu's success in the 1992 Winter Olympics shows that she will be a strong contender for the women's singles medal in the future. Subsequently, Chen Lu won bronze medals at the World Championships 1992 and 1993, which was the first and second World Championships medals won by China athletes. 1994 In the 7th Winter Olympics, she completed six three-week jumps (one of which was after falling off the ice) and won the third place in the event, becoming the first China athlete to win a medal in the figure skating Winter Olympics. However, her success did not immediately attract widespread attention, because the focus of the news media at that time was the debate between American women's single skaters Nancy Creaghan and Togna Harding, and the second was the short-lived women's single skater champion in the Winter Olympics, Ukrainian girl Baiur, who was only 16 years old.

1After the 7th Winter Olympics in February, 1994, Baiul and nancy kerrigan, runners-up of the Women's Single Skating Championship in this Winter Olympics, stopped participating in amateur competitions, so Chen Lu, runner-up of this Winter Olympics, became a popular candidate for the World Championships in March of the same year. However, the sudden fracture forced her to quit at the last minute before participating in the World Championships and short program competitions, which threatened her sports career. In the autumn of the same year, Chen Lu won the championship in the Japanese race of the Championship Series (later renamed the Grand Prix) held in Nagoya, and made a successful comeback. 1995 In the World Championship held in Birmingham, England, Chen Lu successfully completed five three-week jumps with the soundtrack of the last emperor (one of which was a joint jump of hooking for three weeks, then adding ice for two weeks outside). She finally defeated Surya Bonali of France, Nicole Boback and Michelle Kwan of the United States and Olga Malkova of Russia, becoming the first figure skating world champion in China. At that time, Sandra Baizik, a sports commentator and artistic director of NBC TV in the United States, explained at the beginning of the free skating program in Chen Lu: "In this free skating program, she (Chen Lu) said that she would integrate her Asian tradition into this sport that originated in the West."

Reach the pinnacle of technology and art

After becoming the world champion in the 1995 World Championships, Chen Lu's status declined. In the 1995- 1996 season, her performance fluctuated and was challenged by younger opponents, such as Michelle Kwan of the United States and Irina Luca of Russia. Although she won the first and second place in the three races of the championship series (later renamed the Grand Prix) in the autumn of 1995, she was still in trouble. For example, in France, her short program ranked seventh and freestyle skating first. In Japan, she overcame difficulties in both the short program stage and the free skating stage and won the first prize. However, in the final of the championship series, she ranked first in the short program, but finally fell to fourth due to a series of mistakes in the free skating stage, while Michelle Kwan and Luca won the championship and runner-up respectively, which became her lowest point this season.

In the 1996 World Championship, Chen Lu made no obvious mistakes, but lost to Michelle Kwan and won the second place. In the free skating stage, both of them got a perfect score of 6.0 twice with excellent performance, but Michelle Kwan scored higher in technique. Of the nine judges in the free skating stage, six thought that Michelle Kwan was ahead of Chen Lu, and the other three thought that Chen Lu was ahead of Michelle Kwan. In the end, Chen Lu failed to defend the world champion. One explanation is that Michelle Kwan's three-week jump (the least difficult three-week single jump) is more complicated than Chen Lu's, so his technical score is higher. However, there are also different opinions that Chen Lu jumped more than Michelle Kwan for two and a half weeks, and it is more difficult for Chen Lou to jump three times with ice inside than Michelle Kwan to jump three times with ice outside. For another example, in the last minute of free skating (at this time, the players often can't complete the difficult jump well because of physical decline), Chen Lu completed three three-week jumps and one two-and-a-half-week jump, one of which was a very difficult hook three-week jump; Michelle Kwan only arranged two three-week jumps. However, in terms of difficulty of footwork and overall stretching degree, Michelle Kwan is stronger than Chen Lu. Due to the different music themes and performance styles, their artistic point should be higher, and people have different opinions.

Although Chen Lu only won the runner-up in the 1996 World Championships, her wonderful performances in short programs and free skating became classics. Especially the second movement of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2, which is a set of free skating, is generally regarded as one of the best deductive versions of world famous songs in figure skating, and is Chen Lu's personal peak in technology and art.