Three female swordsmen
2021-08-29 10:55:01Source: Guangming Net-“Guangming Daily”
[Special report for the Tokyo Paralympic Games]
Guangming Daily reporter Wang Dong
On the 27th, in the Tokyo Paralympic Women’s Epee Team Finals at the Makuhari Messe, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, the Chinese team composed of Rong Jing, Bian Jing and Tan Shumei defeated the Ukrainian team by a 40-17 advantage, winning three consecutive times. Paralympic champion of the project. So far, Rong Jing won her fifth Paralympic gold medal, Bian Jing won her second gold medal at the Paralympic Games, and Tan Shumei became the first person to win three gold medals at the Paralympic Games. Of players.
Rong Jing: A rare good swordsman
Rong Jing was born in 1988 in an ordinary peasant family in Huachong Town, Shuyang County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province. She suffered from polio and had limited mobility on her right leg. In 2004, he joined the wheelchair fencing team of Jiangsu Province to engage in fencing. As an athlete on the Chinese wheelchair fencing team, her main events are epee and foil. The London Paralympic Games Rong Jing first stepped on the Paralympic stage and won a team gold medal with his teammates. At the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, she was also honored to be the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony. In the competition, she won three consecutive gold medals for epee individual, sabre A-level individual and epee team.
The Tokyo Paralympic Games is Rong Jing’s third Paralympic journey. The 33-year-old veteran still maintains a passionate fighting spirit. On August 26, she reached the final in the women’s wheelchair fencing women’s A-level epee individual competition, but in the final, she defeated the Hungarian player by three swords and won a silver medal. But she quickly adjusted her mentality, played steadily, and devoted herself to the epee team competition with her teammates. She played well and won this precious team gold medal with her teammates.
Rong Jing’s coach commented: “Rong Jing is a rare good swordsman who is not only daring to fight, but also calm and calm in the face of a strong player like Lin in a fiercely competitive competition.”
But Rong Jing has a clear position: there is no victorious general on the sports field. If you want to surpass yourself, you need to work hard.
Bian Jing: Touching the Paralympic Games
On the first match day of the Tokyo Paralympic Games, the Chinese player Bian Jing led the way in the Women’s Individual Sabre A-level gold medal match, defeating Georgian players 15-7 to win the gold medal. In this game, Bian Jing not only showed strong strength, but also showed the qualities of humility and friendliness. After the game, when she saw that it was inconvenient for her opponent to leave the stage, she took the initiative to help her push her wheelchair. Bian Jing said: “It is what I should do to pass on friendship and show a good image of Chinese athletes.”
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, because there was no women’s saber event, Bian Jing could only participate in epee, but she only won one silver medal. After the Rio Paralympics, Bian Jing once chose to retire, but her unyielding character once again awakened her desire to participate in the Paralympics. This time, she went to the Paralympic Games again, and finally won the gold medal in the Women’s Wheelchair Sabre Individual A-level final, and then won the epee team gold medal, realizing her Olympic gold medal dream.
After the game, Bian Jing said: “When the dream comes true, there is an urge to cry in my heart, but I feel that I still have to keep working hard.”
Tan Shumei: Life is changed by fencing
At this Paralympic Games, Tan Shumei is undoubtedly the most dazzling athlete since the start of the competition: within three days, she first won the women’s wheelchair fencing individual Sabre B championship, and then won the women’s epee individual B championship, and then cooperated with the team members. , Won the women’s epee team gold medal.
Tan Shumei, 32, is from Shaoyang, Hunan. In 2012, she suffered an accidental fall from a high altitude, causing damage to her spine, loss of consciousness in the lower body, and second-degree disability, which completely changed her life. The strong Tan Shumei did not sink due to her injury. She actively treated her. In 2013, she was introduced to the Shanghai Disabled Sports Training Center to practice fencing. In April 2015, Tan Shumei represented the Shaanxi team to participate in the Ninth National Games for the Disabled and won two consecutive silver medals in the wheelchair fencing competition. At the 2019 Korea Wheelchair Fencing World Championships, Tan Shumei won 4 gold medals for women’s individual saber, individual epee, team sabre and team epee. After the World Championships, Tan Shumei said that her biggest dream was to sprint for the Paralympic champion. Today, Tan Shumei has done it.
“Whenever the national anthem is played, I think I can also represent the country in the competition. It can be said that wheelchair fencing has changed my life.” Tan Shumei said.
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