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08/21/2025 01:09:55 am

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A 24-year old Track and Field Player Won the Frist Prize in the Asian Championship

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(Photo : Jiang Fan (middle), Liu Xiang (left), Shi Dongpeng(right) are very good friends )

After hearing the news that he was not in the list of players participating the 110-meter Hurdle Race of 2012 London Olympics, Jiang Fan, a young track and field player from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province felt quite down. He then wrote in his Sina.Weibo, China's twitter, that "I did not practice this afternoon, but talked a lot with my coach along the track field instead. I clearly knew that one's life must experience many ups and downs, such vicissitudes teaches us to accept gains and losses."

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"I am still very young. I definitely can prove my own capability by hard training, and I will fight for the next Olympics." Then, this 23-year old Jiang Fan has soon started his daily practice after a short-term blueness, and he still bears the dream of competing the Rio Olympics in 2016 in his mind.

Jiang Fan, born on September 16, 1989 in Nanjing City, he is as tall as 1.89 meters, which even makes him possesses the same chrisma with Liu Xiang, a widely known Chinese track and field player. Jiang Fan said in a interview that winning this champion honor was not easy, he actually did not perform his best running record in this Asian Championship. He also expressed that there was another reason why he was so excited this time, that was by wining this competition, he could attend the World Championship on behalf of China's national team without any selection before. In his own words, "It is awesome."

Jiang Fan gradually enters the best team of Chinese Men's 110-meter Hurdle race which was firstly grasped world attention because of Liu Xiang's excellent performance before, the public consider Jiang Fan a very promising player. 

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