Palm Spring City news dream Paralympic Games, together to the future. On the evening of September 4, the 12th Yunnan Provincial Paralympic Games (hereinafter referred to as the Provincial Paralympic Games) and the 6th Special Olympics (hereinafter referred to as the Special Olympics) opened in the main gymnasium of Plateau Sports Center in Yuxi city.

The PROVINCIAL Paralympic Games and the Special Olympics with the theme slogan of "self-reliance, self-confidence, forward" are the largest, highest level, the largest number of projects, the most extensive coverage of a disabled sports event in our province. A total of 1,850 disabled athletes from 18 delegations from 16 prefectures (cities) and Yunnan Vocational College of Special Education participated in the competition, and a total of 1,487 MEDALS were awarded.

A TOTAL OF 89 ATHLETES FROM THE KUNMING DELEGATION TOOK PART IN SIX SPORTS, NAMELY TRACK AND FIELD, SWIMMING, DEAF BASKETBALL, DEAF FOOTBALL, BLIND GOALBALL AND SPECIAL Olympic BASKETBALL. In the competition, the disabled athletes have the courage to go beyond and strive for the first place, playing a tenacious and unyielding life song, showing the city's athletes challenge the limit, tenacious struggle, the pursuit of excellence spirit. In the end, Kunming delegation ranked first in the gold medal table with 99 gold MEDALS, first in the medal table with 131 MEDALS, first in the total score of team 1064.5 points, and won the sportsmanship Award, realizing the "double harvest" of sports performance and spiritual civilization.

Cheer for the paralympians

As A grand event to show the cause of disabled sports in Yunnan and the sportsmanship of disabled athletes, Kunming Municipal Committee and government attached great importance to it and allocated special funds to provide a guarantee for the athletes' intensive training. At the same time, a leading group for Kunming to participate in the Provincial Paralympic Games and Special Olympics was set up, led by Deputy Mayor Zhao Bo and municipal Inspector Li Jianyang. Under the unified leadership of the leading group, all member units cooperated closely, took the initiative and made concerted efforts to ensure that the preparation work was implemented. During the training period, the leaders in charge of the municipal Party Committee and the municipal government listened to the report for many times and approved the working plan of the group competition.

To encourage disabled athletes in a more full mental state to save time, jian-yang li disabled persons' federation and the principal repeatedly to the training ground to see the athletes, coaches and staff, encourages athletes to build confidence, hard working, make achievements, style, race out of level, efforts to achieve the game exciting, achievement, Full display Kunming disabled athletes elegant demeanour.

The quadrennial Provincial Paralympic Games is a comprehensive review of the development achievements of disabled sports in our province. The Kunming Disabled Persons' Federation took the preparation work as a major political task to grasp, issued the work plan, and established a leading group headed by Yang Xiong, the former Party secretary and chairman of the municipal Disabled Persons' Federation. The members of the leading group were composed of the leading group of the municipal Disabled Persons' Federation and the heads of each office to act as a strong backing for the achievements of the athletes.

In order to build a good "stage" for the provincial Paralympic Games, to give disabled people a chance to show themselves and strengthen their physical fitness, since September last year, the municipal disabled People's Federation, national team, provincial team coaches formed a working group, repeatedly went into the counties (cities) and districts, the initial screening of more than 300 disabled sports children. A total of 89 athletes were selected after intensive training began in May this year. The oldest are in their 50s and the youngest are 11.

In order to ensure good results in the provincial Paralympic Games, the municipal Paralympic Federation hired professional coaches to strengthen the training of athletes. According to the physical condition of the disabled athletes, the coaches of each sport make personalized training programs to help the athletes adjust their emotions and state; All the athletes cherish the honor of the team, respect the coach, obey the arrangement and follow the command. With the spirit of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, they train hard under the hot sun to overcome the physical pain for the same dream. The sweat runs dry, the face is tanned, the skin is scraped, and the leg is sprained. After nearly 4 months of training, the athletes' physical quality and sports skills have been greatly improved.

Kunming takes the lead in the three lists

The Kunming delegation consists of 89 athletes and 37 team leaders, coaches and staff members.

During the competition, the disabled athletes fought for their dreams on the field, interpreting the true meaning of life of unremitting self-improvement. In swimming and track and field events, the Kunming team performed extremely dazzling and showed strong strength. In the swimming events, freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke...... The competition of different groups was in full swing. The competitors tried their best to break the waves, weaving a beautiful scenery line of "swimming" forward and competing, showing the competition of speed and strength. In the end, Zheng Tao, Lu Weiyuan, Ruan Jingsong, Zhou Yanfei and other 8 well-known players with outstanding achievements led by 12 young players, won a total of 54 gold MEDALS, 16.5 silver MEDALS, 6.5 bronze MEDALS. Among them, Shi Hangjun, a female athlete from Anning City, showed her super explosive power and won 5 gold MEDALS in women's SM11 200m individual medley, S11 400m freestyle, S11 100m freestyle, S11 100m butterfly and S11-S13 4x50m freestyle.

Kunming Men's Deaf Football team won the provincial Para Games with 4 complete wins.

Yang Na, a 12-year-old female in Fumin County, was amazing. She showed her extraordinary ability and strong psychological quality at a young age, and wrapped up a silver hardware. Yang Na's eyesight is disabled because of the disease. In the struggle with the disease, she has practiced her unyielding perseverance. In July 2021, in accordance with the requirements of Kunming Disabled Persons' Federation of "digging sports children to prepare for the Provincial Paralympic Games", Fumin County Disabled Persons' Federation carefully screened a number of sports children, and Yang Na was finally selected to the Kunming assembled training team. After nearly a year of intensive training, Yang Na won the praise of the coach with her tenacity, sweat and achievements, and qualified for the competition. After tenacious efforts, She won 5 gold MEDALS in women's S11-S13 level 4× 50m medley, S11-S13 level 4× 50m freestyle, S12 level 100m butterfly, S12 level 400m freestyle and SM12 level 200m individual medley, and the second place in S12 level 100m freestyle. She won 5 gold MEDALS and 1 silver medal.

The Kunming team won 54 gold MEDALS in the swimming competition. 

The men's deaf football team won all four games, winning the championship by scores of 8∶0, 4∶0, 2∶0 and 10∶0. Zhang Jie, the coach of the men's deaf football team, said that the preparation began on May 9, and this year's athletes, both in terms of the level of coaches and the physical quality of the players, are better than those of previous games. The team members trained hard and dared to fight. They showed their style, level and Kunming spirit.

The men's deaf football team led the way on the field. The men's deaf basketball team was not afraid of strong hand all the way, and won the championship of another collective event after the men's deaf football. Not to be outdone, the women's blind Gate team won a silver medal. The deaf women's basketball team and the Special Olympics men's and women's basketball teams won a bronze medal respectively. In the field, blind athlete Wei Jiansen and leader Zhou Guoqiang won the men's 200m T11 final in 25.63 seconds.

Wei Jiansen is a Chinese blind soccer player who won the third place in the 2018 Blind Soccer World Cup. In order to get good results in the cross-border competition, Zhou Guoqiang and Wei Jiansen found the most tacit understanding in the running training of laps and laps for four months, and also achieved each other in the competition. In addition, Wei Jiansen also won four gold MEDALS in men's long jump T11, men's 100m T11, men's blind 4× 100m relay and men's blind 4× 400m relay, taking five gold MEDALS into his own hands. The Kunming team won gold and silver in track and field events.

Li Zhaoyan, who lit the cauldron, is the champion of the men's Marathon T46 at the Rio Paralympics and Tokyo Paralympics. In this provincial Paralympic Games, Li Chaoyan won 4 gold MEDALS in men's T46 1500m, 5,000m, 10,000m and half marathon. The twin brothers Liu Haowen and Liu Bowen won nine gold MEDALS and one silver. The Kunming delegation finished with 99 gold, 24 silver and 8 bronze MEDALS. Continuously improve the level of competitive sports for persons with disabilities In the current Provincial Paralympic Games and Special Olympics, Kunming disabled athletes maintained high morale, with the spirit of tenacious struggle and striving for the first place, constantly breakthrough themselves, and strive to achieve "every point will win, every gold will compete", won honor for their hometown, added glory, is the pride of Kunming people!

The person in charge of the Kunming Disabled Persons Federation said that the Kunming delegation of this Provincial Paralympic Games showed good sports style and spirit, excellently completed the task of yong when the "leader", and achieved three proud achievements, which is the result of the municipal Party committee and the municipal government attaching great importance to the work of the disabled and the development of sports. It is the result of athletes with disabilities facing difficulties, daring to fight, being the first and surpassing themselves, and it is also the result of the hard work of coaches and workers with disabilities. It is hoped that all participating athletes, coaches and staff will continue to carry forward the glorious tradition of sports for the disabled and forge ahead with determination to achieve new achievements. Time emerges for the province of outstanding talents of sports for the disabled, disabled persons' federation in kunming, will follow-up, system science, the solid training and training, to have sports specialty tabulation of persons with disabilities, for special Olympics athletes with athletic screening work, selection, reserve a group of outstanding athletes, for the province the 13th paralympics.

In addition, combined with healthy kunming action and implementation plan, the national fitness sports for the disabled in the community public cultural service system, encourage and support disabled persons to participate in all kinds of sports and the healthy fusion mass sports activities, make full use of the city's existing sports facilities, in a planned way to carry out the fitness and physical training for the disabled, gradually improve the disabled physical quality and the competitive level, To continuously strengthen the development strength of disabled sports and promote the cause of disabled sports in Kunming to a new level.

Source: Kunming Disabled Persons' Federation, Kunming Daily