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China's first world champion in sports history.
Reviewing the history of sports development in New China is a period of constantly breaking records and filling gaps. With their sweat and hard work, groups of outstanding athletes have washed away the shame of "the sick man of East Asia" and made contributions to the progress of sports in China and the world.

1On June 7th, 956, Chen Jingkai, a 20-year-old Guangdong guy, set a new world record in the history of sports in China with a jerk of133kg in the Sino-Soviet weightlifting friendship competition. From then on, China began to reach the peak of world sports.

1959 On April 5th, Rong Guotuan, a 2 1 year-old athlete who returned to the mainland from Hongkong, won the men's singles championship in the 25th World Table Tennis Championships held in Dortmund, the former Federal Republic of Germany, which was the first world champion in China's sports history.

1959 September 13, China, whose national strength is booming, held the first National Games in Beijing, and nearly 8,000 athletes gathered together, creating unprecedented good results.

1960 At 4: 20 on May 25th, China people stood on the top of the world for the first time. China mountaineers Wang Fuzhou, Kampot and Qu climbed Mount Qomolangma, the highest peak in the world, at an altitude of 8848.13m for the first time, which is also the first time in human history to successfully climb the summit from the North Road of Mount Qomolangma.

1981116 China, which won six games in the third women's volleyball world cup, welcomed its last opponent, the Japanese team. The cheers of the Japanese audience in Dafang Gymnasium were deafening, and the China team played calmly and finally won the first world championship in China's three goals with unbeaten record. Since then, China women's volleyball team has won many battles, creating a miracle of "five consecutive championships".

1In July, 984, China sent a strong team to Los Angeles to participate in the 23rd Olympic Games held here. At the beginning of the competition on July 29th, Xu Haifeng, a shooter from China, won the first gold medal in the men's self-selected pistol slow-fire competition with a score of 566 rings, which was not only the first gold medal in this Olympic Games, but also the first gold medal won by China people at the Olympic Games. When IOC President Samaranch put the gold medal on Xu Haifeng's chest, he excitedly announced: "This is the greatest day in China's sports history." China achieved a "zero" breakthrough in the Olympic gold medal list.