Meng Guanyliang ( Chinese р 关 良 п , pinyin : Mèng Guānliáng ; January 24, 1977 , Haining ) is a Chinese canoe rower who played for the Chinese national team in the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s. Two-time Olympic champion, five-time champion of Asia, three-time champion of the Asian Games, multiple winner and medalist of national championships.
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| A country |  China |
| Specialization | canoe , deuces |
| Date of Birth | January 24, 1977 (42 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Hainin china |
| Growth | 185 cm |
| Weight | 90 cm |
Biography
Meng Guanyliang was born on January 24, 1977 in Hainin County, Zhejiang Province . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, he played at the age of eighteen, and at twenty already became the champion of China.
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1998, when he joined the main team of the Chinese national team and attended the Asian Games in Bangkok, from where he brought gold and bronze dignity awards, won in singles at a distance of 1000 meters and in doubles at a distance of 500 meters respectively. A year later, he became the champion of Asia immediately in the three disciplines of canoeing, but then in his career there was a slight decline.
In 2002, Maine once again won the Asian Championships and went to the Asian Games in Busan, where he mined gold in both of his disciplines: C-1 1000 and C-2 500 [1] . The following season he performed at the World Championships in American Gainesville, managed to get close to the prize positions in a single canoe, finished sixth in the two-hundred-meter distance, while he was fifth in the half-kilometer. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the country's honor at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , together with teammate Jan Wenjun ahead of all rivals at five hundred meters and thereby won the Olympic gold medal - the first in the history of China in kayaking and canoeing. He also took part in the kilometer program of twos, reached the final, but in the decisive race showed the last ninth time.
Four years later, Meng Guanyliang returned to the big sport and reunited with Wenjun to participate in the Beijing home Olympic games - they were again the best at five hundred meters, including bypassing the closest pursuers of the Russians Sergei Ulegin and Alexander Kostoglod , despite the fact that at the finish their boat capsized . Thus, Maine and Ian became the last and penultimate Olympic champions in the C-2,500 discipline, since it was subsequently excluded from the program of the Olympic Games.
Meng Guanylang, together with his partner, was recognized as the best athlete of the year in China, but shortly after the Beijing Olympics, he decided to finally end his career as a professional athlete, giving way to young Chinese rowers. He later worked in the field of sports administration, was sports officials, currently holds the position of deputy director of the center of water sports in Zhejiang province [2] [3] [4] . Married, has a son [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Chinese canoeist Meng Guanyliang came out on top in rowing in a 1,000 m single canoe . People's Daily (October 10, 2002). Date of treatment January 5, 2015.
- ↑ 从 奥运 冠军 到 “孟主任” —— 孟 关 良 的 华丽 转身
- ↑ 浙江 体育 界 唯一 十八 大 代表 孟 关 良 ： 杭州 会有 更多 的 孙 杨 (link not available) . Date of treatment January 6, 2015. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ 十八 大 代表 孟 关 良 呼吁 提高 运动员 待遇
- ↑ Xinhua News Agency. Meng Guanylang . China International Radio (August 24, 2008). Date of treatment January 5, 2015.
Links
- Meng Guanylang - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Meng Guanylang - medals at major international competitions