She won more than 70 gold medals in her career, setting a record of winning the World Cup, World Championships and Olympic Games for seven consecutive years.
Gao Min's marriage failed and she remarried with her son. Now that more than 20 years have passed, how is Gao Min's life?
Gao Min, male, 1970, from Zigong, Sichuan. His father Gao Jiahua and his mother Jiang Zhonghua both graduated from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, and they are both senior intellectuals. Gao Min has a younger brother.
Gao Jiahua was a swimming champion in Chongqing when he was a teenager. Influenced by his father, Gao Min likes swimming since childhood.
1976, when Gao Min was 6 years old, her parents sent her to Zigong Youth Sports School to practice gymnastics. Once, when she was swimming in the swimming pool, she was found by coach Yang Qiang, who took her to the diving team. Nine-year-old Gao Min began to practice diving.
At that time, Gao Min's toes were not beautiful enough to meet the standard of "professional diving feet". The coach makes her sit on the "tiger stool" every day to help her correct her foot shape. Gao Min often tears in pain.
When parents came to see her, they asked their daughter with red eyes: If you feel too painful, don't practice diving. The stubborn Gao Min replied to his parents: "I can persist." After that, she smiled at her parents, but there were tears in her eyes, which made her parents sad.
Gao Min is a diving prodigy. He has just joined the team for one year, and his level has surpassed that of athletes who have practiced for three years. She has excellent understanding. The coach explained the diving action, and she could understand it once. And some students still don't understand after listening to it again and again.
1980, Gao Min was successfully selected for the Sichuan diving team with her outstanding performance. Due to excessive training intensity, Gao Min appeared eardrum perforation at 1984. After treatment, she recovered from the injury, and then there were many perforation of the eardrum.
In her sports career, Gao Min has been suffering from perforation of the eardrum.
1985, Gao Min was selected for the national diving team. Every morning, she arrives at the training hall 10 minutes earlier than her teammates. After the evening training, she will stay and practice 10 minutes. So she will practice 20 minutes more than her teammates every day.
20 minutes a day, unremarkable. A year later, she will practice more than her teammates 100 hours. Miracles were born slowly in Gao Min's hard training.
1986, Gao Min participated in the 5th World Swimming Championships and won the women's 3m springboard gold medal with 582.42 points, which was the highest score in the history of the World Championships. Then, she cooperated with her teammates and won the women's team gold medal.
Since this year, the world women's diving has entered a "high sensitivity era". Many foreign media published articles saying that this is a kind of sorrow for athletes who lived in the same era as Gao Min.
1987, Gao Min won the women's 3m springboard gold medal in the 5th World Cup diving competition.
1988 After the Spring Festival and before the Seoul Olympic Games, many domestic media began to predict how many gold medals China would win.
Among them, Gao Min's diving gold medal was unanimously considered a foregone conclusion, which brought great pressure to Gao Min.
At the Seoul Olympic Games, the China sports delegation got off to a bad start and missed the gold medal in many advantageous events. Li Ning of Prince of gymnastics also made a big mistake, and everyone thought that the gold medal that was hard won was lost.
Gao Min stepped onto the stage under great pressure, and she danced better and better. After seven rounds, she was already the champion, but Gao Min still jumped out of the perfect high score in the eighth round.
At that time, Gao Min's parents were invited by CCTV to watch the live broadcast of the event in Beijing. When their daughter won the championship, Gao Jiahua and his wife cried with joy.
Gao Min's movements are difficult and steady, far exceeding her opponents. She is a myth in diving.
Starting from 1986, as long as Gao Min participates in the world series, she will definitely win the championship, and other athletes can only compete for the second and third place.
1990, Gao Min broke her elbow during training, and the doctor said that her right arm might be disabled. Gao Min and the coach are very anxious. She is being treated in the hospital.
Two months later, Gao Min created a miracle and the elbow joint was completely cured. However, in the following training, Gao Min suffered from pulmonary hemorrhage and was admitted to the hospital again.
Gao Min's mood is a little pessimistic. She often cries and even has the idea of retirement. My parents came to Beijing to visit Gao Min and encouraged her to be strong. The coach also said to her: The team depends on you to take the lead. You must recover and reappear on the field.
Yes, the country has paid a lot to cultivate itself. We must overcome injuries and win glory for the country. After struggling with injuries for 3 months, Gao Min recovered and returned to the national diving team.
199 1 year, Gao Min struggled with injuries and conducted intensive training. Everyone thinks that Gao Min can easily win the gold medal. In fact, the tears and pains, hardships and torture behind her are only clear to her and the coach.
Sometimes Gao Min practices very hard and stands on the springboard with tears in her eyes. Coach Xu Yiming couldn't bear to let her practice any more, but for the honor of his motherland, he made Gao Made Min jump into the water many times.
1992 In May, with the approach of the Barcelona Olympic Games, there was an Olympic craze in China, and many media predicted how many gold medals the China sports delegation would win.
The media agreed that Gao Min's gold medal was a foregone conclusion. Great pressure hit Gao Min, and she had the idea of running away or even committing suicide. When the pressure could not be relieved, Gao Min hit the door with his head.
Gao Min won the gold medal in the women's 3m springboard without letting people down under great pressure.
Gao Min smiled brightly when she came out of the swimming pool. You can go back to the lounge, Gao Min shouted, and all the pressure was released at this moment.
At that time, Gao Min was only 22 years old and could fight for another Olympic Games. However, with the old injuries on her body and the psychological fatigue and pressure caused by long-term high-load training, Min never found the pleasure of diving again.
199265438+February, Gao Min officially retired, which means the end of the "Gao Min era". At that time, many American media published articles: Gao Min retired and other athletes had a chance.
On February 27th this year, at 65438, Tianjin People's Gymnasium held a grand TV gala for Gao Min to bid farewell to sports.
Zhao Zhongxiang, Ni Ping, Song Shixiong and Yang Lan acted as moderators. Mao Amin, Wei Wei, Yan Weiwen, Na Ying and other famous singers were present to sing, and Gao Min shed tears at the scene.
After retiring, Gao Min can be a politician or a coach, but she didn't choose these two paths. Instead, she went to study in the United States with her boyfriend Su Dong.
Su Dong is four years older than Gao Min. He was born in Xi City, Shaanxi Province on 1966. After graduating from college, he joined the State Sports Commission to work as a translator.
1995, Gao Min married Su Dong and gave birth to her son Su Chao. Soon, Gao Min was invited to be a coach at Kensman Diving Club in Edmonton, Canada, and a family of three lived in Canada.
1997, Su Dong is going to Singapore for development, so Gao Min can take his son with him. Gao Min's work and income in Canada are very stable, and her English level has improved rapidly. She doesn't want to go to Singapore for development.
Instead, she urged her husband to stay in Canada, and then the family of three went back to China.
Su Dong's career in Canada is a bit bumpy, and his attitude towards Singapore is quite firm. In this case, the two had to break up. After the divorce, my son Su Chao and Gao Min lived together.
Gao Min and Su Dong are the first love, and the breakdown of their marriage left her with great psychological trauma. In the dead of night, after her son falls asleep, Gao Min often cries alone in bed.
In a strange foreign land, her parents are not around, and Gao Min has no relatives or friends. Her son is her only emotional sustenance. In order not to affect the growth of her son, Gao Min buried her tears and pain in her heart and lived with her son strongly.
From 65438 to 0997, Gao Min met Chen Zhigang, a Canadian Chinese, at a Chinese gathering. He is older than Gao Min 10 years old. He also had emotional setbacks. He is a professor at Edmonton University and a researcher at the United Nations World Trade Organization.
Chen Zhigang was handsome and elegant, and fell in love with Gao Min at first sight. Then he pursued Gao Min. He said, I have a son, which will bring you a lot of burdens.
Chen Zhigang replied: I love you, so I can accept your son. He keeps his promise. Every time he comes to Gaomin, Chen Zhigang will bring a small gift to Su Chao and spend some time alone with him.
Gradually, Su Chao developed feelings for Chen Zhigang. After a while, I will ask: Why hasn't Uncle Chen come yet?
Gao Min knows that it is easy for a man to be kind to her, but accepting her son requires a broad mind. Chen Zhigang did it. Gao Min didn't want to miss this good man and accepted his feelings.
1998, Gao Min remarried Chen Zhigang with her son. The following year, Gao Min gave birth to her youngest son, Chen Weidong.
As a mother of two children, Gao Min does many things by herself. Chen Zhigang helps her at home when she is too busy.
After having his son, Chen Zhigang showed more love for Su Chao, which made Gao Made Min particularly moved.
Although Gao Min was under no pressure to teach in the club, she worked hard and seven of her players were selected for the Canadian national diving team.
In 2005, Gao Min was 35 years old and had the idea of returning to China. She told her husband what she thought, and Chen Zhigang supported her.
This autumn, Chen Zhigang gave up all his hard work in Canada and returned to Beijing to settle down with Gao Min and his two sons.
Gao Min knows that her husband has made great sacrifices for this, and she is full of gratitude to her husband.
After returning to Beijing, Chen Zhigang entered a university to teach. Besides taking care of her two sons, Gao Min devoted the rest of her time and energy to charity.
As early as 1992, when Gao Min retired, he auctioned his gold medal at the 6th World Swimming Championships for 770,000 yuan. Part of the money was used to support China's Olympic bid, and the other part was used to set up a "Gao Min Scholarship" in Chengdu Sport University.
After returning to Beijing to settle down, Gao Min took part in charity activities. In 2008, after the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan, Gao Min went to the disaster area for the first time to express his condolences.
She takes care of the children in the tent, and her Sichuan dialect makes them feel very cordial. During the summer vacation, she also brought several children from Beichuan to Beijing to play.
Gao Min subsidizes 65,438+00 children in remote mountainous areas of Sichuan every year. 10 For many years, she never left her name, and many sponsored children never knew that Gao Min was donating money to them.
Someone asked Gao Min: Why didn't you leave your name when you did something good? Gao Min replied: "I just want to give some real help to the children, and there is no need to spread it all over the world."
Usually organizers organize public welfare activities, the first thing that comes to mind is Gao Min. No matter how busy she is, Gao Min always takes time to attend.
On 20 13, Gao Min served as the judge of Phoenix TV's "Public Welfare China" and contributed to this project. Also in this year, Gao Min, together with many Olympic champions, stars and staff, donated 1 10,000 yuan to the earthquake-stricken area in Ya 'an, Sichuan.
On 20 15, Gao Min was also the initiator and athlete representative of the "Champion Athletes Fund" project of China Soong Ching Ling Foundation.
Gao Min is tall, beautiful and elegant, and has been invited to participate in TV performances many times. 20 18 participated in CCTV's "Vietnam War is Brave" and sang the song "Journey to Paradise", which won unanimous praise from the audience.
Husband Chen Zhigang is the strong backing of Gao Min's charity. Every time Gao Min goes out to participate in activities, Chen Zhigang takes time to send his wife to the airport. When Gao Min is away, he undertakes housework and takes care of his two sons at home.
202 1, Gao Min is taking photos in Weibo. In the photo, she has a bright smile, dignified and elegant temperament, and her figure is still slim and charming.
In April 2022, Gao Min was 52 years old and married Chen Zhigang for 24 years. Their eldest son, Su Chao, is about to graduate from graduate school, and the youngest son is studying in university.
Gao Min created the brilliance on the springboard and wrote the legend of an era. In life, she has a happy and stable marriage, the love of her husband and two sons, her favorite charity and a champion.
Gao Min is very satisfied with the current living conditions!
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