Zhao Hang's anecdote.

Zhao Hang immigrated to Canada from China with his parents at the age of 1 1. She loved basketball, swimming, running and other sports since she was a child, and her physical fitness was excellent. Influenced by the engineer's grandfather, Zhao Hang is very interested in science and engineering. After hours, his greatest wish is to become an aviation scientist. After graduating from the computer engineering department, she has been engaged in computer high-tech work. 200 1 after graduating from Zhao Hang university, I met my later boyfriend and coach, Patrick Haynes, a former Canadian shooting champion, and gradually fell in love with shooting. Under Patrick's careful guidance and constant encouragement, Zhao Hang, who started shooting less than 10 months ago, won the Canadian national pistol shooting championship in one fell swoop in 2002, and then entered the national team, which changed her life track. In the three national competitions that Zhao Hang participated in, the champion never fell behind. She also represented Canada in many international competitions, including the Pan American Games and the World Cup in the United States, and achieved excellent results. In the Canadian shooting field, Zhao Hang is the first person from China who has achieved such excellent results.

As an amateur athlete, Zhao Hang's shooting road has been extremely difficult for more than four years. The subsidy provided by the government is very small, and most of the travel and accommodation expenses required for international competitions have to be solved by athletes themselves. Even the national team uniforms, guns and bullets needed for normal training have to be paid out of their own pockets, with an average annual cost of nearly 20,000 yuan. When talking about the hard-won shooting achievements in Zhao Hang in recent years, Zhao Lian, Zhao Hang's mother and a famous Chinese English writer, couldn't help blushing. She said with emotion, "Any mother in the world will give her daughter two pistols at Christmas and birthday. Other girls are scrambling for discounts to buy beautiful clothes and cosmetics. When my family Zhao Hang learned that the bullets were on sale, she was so happy that she was in a hurry to buy them. In order to save money, she even learned to make her own bullets. "

Zhao Hang is now a full-time programmer in a computer company. In order to ensure enough practice time, she gets up at 5: 30 every morning and goes to the shooting range. She has to train for two hours before going to work and have physical training after work at night, and she only sleeps for five or six hours every day on average. In order to shoot, she sacrificed almost all her spare time, and her wedding date with her boyfriend had to be postponed.

When asked if she wanted to give up after such hard training, Zhao Hang admitted that her performance was at a low point last year and she was particularly tired. She once thought about giving up, but after getting to know Linda Thom, a senior Canadian athlete and Olympic shooting champion from 65438 to 0984, she was deeply encouraged by the former world champion with silver hair and persisted.

After several years of training, Zhao Hang also learned a lot about life. She said that shooting is not only for her to get good grades, but to really understand herself in sports and improve her self-confidence, determination, concentration and endurance. She said that shooting is like life, and the ultimate goal is not the target, but a calm, temperate, accurate and relaxed spiritual realm. She has been trying to reach this level.