As of May 11, 2019, the only Chinese Olympic long-distance running champion is Wang Junxia.

Wang Junxia was born on January 19, 1973 in a rural village on the outskirts of Jiaohe City, Jilin Province. Her family had difficult living conditions.

In 1991, Wang Junxia performed well in the National Urban Games and was picked by Ma Junren, coach of the Liaoning track and field team.

On April 7, 1993, in Tianjin, Wang Junxia participated in her first marathon and successfully won the championship.

In June 1993, Wang Junxia won the women's 10,000-meter championship at the 7th National Games Women's Track and Field Qualifiers and National Track and Field Championships, breaking the Asian record.

In August 1993, at the 4th World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Wang Junxia won the women's 10,000-meter gold medal with a time of 30 minutes, 49 seconds and 30 seconds, and set a world championship record.

On October 30, 1993, Wang Junxia participated in the 5th World Cup Marathon held in San Sebastian, Spain, and won the championship with a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes and 16 seconds.

In September 1993, at the 7th National Games in Beijing, Wang Junxia appeared five times in six days, rewriting the world record three times and shortening the women's 10,000-meter world record by 41 seconds, which had been dormant for seven years. 96 seconds.

At the end of 1993, he was ranked first among the "Top Ten Athletes in the Country", and won the titles of "Best Global Sports Athlete" and "Top Ten Athletes" in the world by British Global Television.

On February 1, 1994, Wang Junxia accepted the 14th Jesse Owens International Award in New York, USA. This was the first time for a Chinese and Asian athlete to win this honor.

In 1996, Wang Junxia participated in the Olympic Games for the first time and won the women's 5,000-meter gold medal with a time of 14 minutes, 59.88 seconds, and won the women's 10,000-meter silver medal with a time of 31 minutes, 02.98 seconds, becoming the first Chinese to win the Olympic Games. Olympic gold medalist in distance running. After the Olympics, Wang Junxia chose to retire.

In 2012, the IAAF Hall of Fame was established, and Wang Junxia was listed as one of the first 12 athletes to be selected. She is the only representative of China and even Asia.

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On February 5, 2016, the British "Daily Mail" reported that the IAAF has taken action to deal with China The turmoil of the Civil War. IAAF officials asked Tian Tian to coordinate the investigation into the incident. Due to this impact, Wang Junxia's 3,000-meter and 10,000-meter world records may be cancelled.

The IAAF said in a recent statement that Chinese state media CCTV also reported on the incident. The most valuable evidence from the IAAF is the joint letter issued by 10 members in 1995 to expose Ma Junren. This letter was written on March 28, 1995.

Wang Junxia is the author. Nine teammates including Zhang Linli and Liu Dong signed autographs together. The joint letter was handed over to writer Zhao Yu. The scariest sentence in the joint letter is "Ma Junren was tempted, forcing us to take large doses of illegal drugs for many years."

According to the "Daily Mail" report, according to the relevant regulations of the International Association of Athletics Federations, Once an athlete automatically recognizes the use of illegal drugs and relies on drugs to achieve a world record, an investigation by the IAAF official organization confirmed that the athlete's achievement will not continue to be regarded as a world record.

According to the memories of members of the Maga Army: "In the early years, we were trained in sports schools and did not take these drugs. At that time, we only heard of the word doping. It is said that foreign athletes use more thieves . Maybe eight or eight years ago. In 1989, there were also athletes in the country who started using it. After 1991, there were more and more drugs on horses, and it didn’t matter, it was used in large quantities. "

According to the disclosure of Ma Jiajun’s investigation, Ma Jiajun underwent four drug tests from December 15, 1993 to the spring of 1995, but the IAAF’s four drug tests found no problems.

The four drugs tested were either discontinued, and Ma Jiajun escaped (the detection technology was not good enough at the time). Through Tianlian’s first two inspections of Ma Jiajun, many Chinese people know the new term flying drug testing.

The difference between flight drug testing and drug testing in this field is that international sports organizations do not notify anyone in advance, and drug inspectors suddenly appear at the national sports team's station. This sudden attack on the flight test may also be the main reason for Ma Jiajun's return to illness.

It was another major drug-related scandal last month (January 2016), when British Athletics submitted all awarded IAAF athletes to the IAAF, the Daily Mail reported. A jointly certified track and field world record.

Currently, the women’s 3,000-meter world record is 8:06.11 and the women’s 10,000-meter world record is 29:31.78, which were still set by Wang Junxia at the Seventh National Games. According to British media analysis, Wang Junxia's two world records are in danger of being revoked.

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