The first athlete in American history to win the Jesse Irving Award

It should be Jesse Irving, and this award is given by the American Track and Field Federation.

The first track and field athlete in China to win the Owens Award was Wang Junxia.

Wang Junxia, born on January 19, 1973 in Jiaohe City, Jilin Province, is a former member of the Chinese women's track and field team and an Olympic champion. In 1993, she won the gold medal in the 10,000m at the World Athletics Championships, and in the same year, she broke the world records in the women's 3,000m and 10,000m at the National Games. In 1996, she won the gold medal in the women's 5000m at the Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win the gold medal in long-distance running.

Athletic career. In April 1993, in the women's marathon of the 7th National Games, she won the championship with a time of 2 hours, 24 minutes and 07 seconds, and broke the women's marathon or the first Asian record.

In June 1993, she won the women's 10,000-meter championship in the women's track and field qualifiers of the 7th National Games and the national track and field jinqin bench standard competition, and broke the Asian record.

On September 8, 1993, in the women's 10,000-meter race of the 7th All-Shirt Xiangguo Games in Beijing, she broke the world record with a time of 29:31.78 and won the championship.

The first track and field athlete in my country to win the Owens Award is: Wang Junxia. Wang Junxia, former teammate of the Chinese women's track and field team, Olympic champion.

Wang Junxia was born on January 19, 1973 in Jiaohe City, Jilin Province, a former teammate of the Chinese women's track and field team and an Olympic champion. In 1993, she won the gold medal in the 10,000m at the World Championships, and in the same year, she broke the world records in the women's 3,000m and 10,000m at the National Games, both of which stand to this day. In 1996, she won the gold medal in the women's 5000m at the Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win the Olympic gold medal in jogging"Oriental Sacred Deer"。

On the evening of November 24, 2012, Wang Junxia was elected to the IAAF Hall of Fame at the ceremony of celebrating the centenary of the IAAF Hall of Fame, and was the first track and field athlete elected in China and even Asia.

On September 11, 2015, Wang Junxia returned to China and participated in a TV talk show with her third husband, Li Huiyang. In the variety show, Wang Junxia complained about some dissatisfaction with her second married life, saying that her ex-husband Huang Tianwen had used to be"Kids"For the reason to intimidate her, and reprimanded her ex-husband for imposing an economic blockade on her during the United States.

In order to better commemorate the influence of American male track and field athlete Jesse Owens on world sports competitions, the American Sports and Rubber Culture Organization was established in his name"Jesse Owens Award"It is awarded annually to athletes from all over the world who have achieved outstanding results in athletics.

American men's track and field athlete Jesse Owens was born in 1913 and died in 1980. His grandfather was a slave and his father was a small sharecropper. In 1935, when it came to exercising among American college students, the 23-year-old Owens became popular in the sports world with a surprising performance of breaking five world records and tying one world record in 45 minutes, in which he set a world record in the long jump, which was not broken until 25 years later.

In 1936, at the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, he won four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, long jump and 4,100m relay in front of 110,000 spectators. In the 100m, he equalled the world record in the first round of the preliminary round, and in the finals, Owens was ready to take the lead from the sprint, and by the time he crossed the line at the finish line, he was already ahead of second place, and his compatriot Metcalfe was a full one metre apart. In the long jump, Owens, who narrowly missed the finals, made it to the finals with an unusually easy finish, with no competitor scoring more than any of his three test scores.

Then, he won the gold medal in the 200 meters. Four days later, Owens was the first runner on the starting line of the 4,100-metre relay, adding a new world record to the Games, which has stood for 20 years.

After the Olympics, Owens lived a life of poverty. Life was not easy, he used to race with dogs, horses. Owens was awarded the Olympic Silver Medal and in 1980 was voted the best athlete of the 20th century by journalists from various sports newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Wang Junxia. This is a female athlete and a very good track and field athlete. It has now been decommissioned.

Wang Junxia, a particularly capable person, has won the World Athletics Championships and broken the world record.

Wang Junxia. This is a very good track and field athlete, but now retired. It also won the corresponding awards.

Wang Junxia (January 19, 1973), a native of Jiaohe, Jilin Province, is a Chinese long-distance runner and is known as the "Oriental Divine Deer". In 1994, he accepted the 14th "Jesse Owens International Award" in New York, USA, which was the first time that a Chinese and Asian athlete won this award.

In September 1992, he won the 10,000m championship at the 4th World Youth Athletics Championships held in South Korea, and was also the runner-up in the youth category of the 20th World Cross Country Championships in the same year.

In August 1993, at the 4th World Athletics Championships held in Stuttgart, Germany, she won the gold medal in the women's 10,000m with a time of 30:49.30 and set a world championship record.

On September 8, 1993, he won the championship in the 3,000-meter race at the 7th National Games held in Beijing, and broke the 3,000-meter world record twice (8:12:06.11), and broke the women's 10,000-meter world record with a time of 29:31.78, becoming the first athlete in the world to break the "30-minute mark" in the women's 10,000-meter run.

On October 28, the IAAF sent a letter to the Chinese Athletics Association acknowledging that it had set world records in both events. The women's 10,000m world record held for nearly 23 years until 12 August 2016, when Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana broke the women's 10,000m run at the Rio Olympics with a time of 29:17.45.

In October 1993, he won the individual and team marathon at the World Cup in Spain.

In October 1994, she participated in the track and field competition of the 12th Asian Games held in Hiroshima, Japan, won the women's 10,000-meter championship and broke the Asian Games record.

On October 30, 1994, she participated in the Beijing International Marathon and won the women's marathon championship.

On September 21, 1995, she participated in the 11th Asian Athletics Championships held in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, and won the women's 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters running championships.

On July 28, 1996, Zi participated in the 26th Olympic Games track and field competition held in Atlanta, USA, and won the women's 5000m championship with a time of 14:59.88; On August 2, she won the second place in the women's 10,000 meters with a time of 31:02.58.

Life. Wang Junxia was selected into Dalian Sports School in 1988 and began to train for long-distance running. In 1991, he was selected into the Liaoning Provincial Track and Field Track and Field Team, under the tutelage of Ma Junren.

In September 1995, he was selected for the national track and field team and studied under senior personal coach Mao Dezhen. At the 26th Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA, Wang Junxia won the women's 5,000m championship and the women's 10,000m runner-up.

In mid-December 1994, Wang Junxia, together with members of the "Ma Jiajun" Qu Yunxia, Liu Li, Zhang Lirong, Lu Ou, Lu Yi, Ma Ningning, Wang Yuan, and Wang Xiaoxia, jointly resigned from Ma Junren and left the "Ma Jiajun".

The first Chinese athlete to win the Owens Award was Wang Junxia.

Wang Junxia, born on January 19, 1973 in Jiaohe City, Jilin Province, is a former member of the Chinese women's track and field team and Olympic champion Lu Chen. In 1993, she won the gold medal in the 10,000m at the World Athletics Championships, and broke the women's 3,000m and 10,000m world records at the National Games in the same year.

In 1996, she won the gold medal in the women's 5000m at the Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win the gold medal in long-distance running.