(China in this decade) the number of Olympic champions in Liaoning is the first in the country to add color to Chinese sports”
China News Service, Shenyang, September 1 (reporter Han Hong) at present, 32 athletes in Liaoning province have won 31 Olympic championships, ranking first in the country in the number of championships. On September 1st, Zhou Tiemin, a first-class inspector of Liaoning Sports Bureau, made the above statement at the series of press conferences on the theme of “Liaoning this decade.
According to Zhou Tiemin, in the recent three Summer and Winter Olympic Games, Liaoning cultivated Guo Yue, Li Na, Sun Yujie, Zheng Yuyin, Ding Xia, Yan Ni, Cui Xiaotong, liu Yang, Xu Mengtao and other 9 Olympic champions. Liaoning’s “three big-ball sports” has attracted much attention. Liaoning won two National Games championships, two CBA finals and six finals in men’s basketball years; dalian City was identified as the first batch of key cities for national football development during the 14th Five-Year Plan in 2022; Chinese women’s volleyball team won the Olympic championship three times, and Liaoning athletes have made important contributions.
During the cycle of Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, winter sports in Liaoning province achieved rapid development, with the number of sports teams increasing from more than 100 to nearly 1,000, the project layout has achieved full coverage of all 7 major items and 15 sub-items from individual projects to the Winter Olympics. In the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, 17 athletes and 18 coaches from Liaoning participated in the competition, and finally won the best record in history of 1 gold and 1 silver. The number of participants, the number of entries and sports scores all reached a record high, make outstanding contributions to the Chinese delegation’s realization of “all-project participation” and “winning the best results.
The latest data shows that the total scale of Liaoning sports industry in 2020 was 107.921 billion yuan, and the added value accounted for 1.45 percent of the province’s GDP in that year. (Finished)