Shan Jun (; born 7 August 1994 in
Luliang, Yunnan) is a Chinese male
Lightweight
Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing.
Boxing
Professional boxing
The lightweight division is over 130 pounds (59 kilograms) and up to 135 pounds (61.2 kilograms) weight class in the sport of boxing.
Notable lightweight b ...
boxer.
He won the bronze medalist at
Olympic Qualifying Tournament in June 2016 in
Baku, Azerbaijan
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world an ...
, qualifying for the
Rio 2016 Olympics.
Career
Born in Xiaobaihu town (小白户镇),
Luliang county,
Yunnan province
Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...
, When Shan was a preteen, his brother and he went to
Qujing
Qujing () is a prefecture-level city in the east of Yunnan province, China, bordering Guizhou province to the east and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the southeast; thus, it was called "Key between Yunnan and Guizhou" () and "Throat of Yu ...
Sports School, he practised boxing and his brother did
sprint running
Sprinting is running over a short distance at the top-most speed of the body in a limited period of time. It is used in many sports that incorporate running, typically as a way of quickly reaching a target or goal, or avoiding or catching an op ...
there. At his age of 15, he won the champion in a teenagers boxing match held by
Kunming
Kunming (; ), also known as Yunnan-Fu, is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The headqua ...
Sports Federation in 2009, soon afterwards he was a member of Yunnan provincial boxing Team. Although his boxing skills were so-so in the early days after being a member there, he got more and more excellent than the other exercisers because of his hard working to practise boxing. he won the 3rd in the National youth competition,
It was that he firstly took part in national events, in the next year he won the gold medal in the National youth competition.
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Sohu.com (2016-08-06) 山俊这小子真帅
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1994 births
Living people
People from Qujing
Sportspeople from Yunnan
Chinese male boxers
Lightweight boxers
Olympic boxers for China
Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games