Ma Junren
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Ma Junren is a famous Chinese
track
coach. He trained several world-class middle and long distance female runners including Wang Junxia
and Qu Yunxia
, who hold several world records. He and his pupils are also called the Ma family army (馬家軍) for their stunning performance in domestic and international events.
Starting as a track coach in a remote rural middle school, he adopted a systematic, scientific training strategy, which includes encouragement, nutritional tonics using Traditional Chinese medicine
and track training balancing stamina
and speed
.
His training regimes are extremely rigorous, involving extremely high mileage (in excess of a marathon
per day) run at high altitude.
There have been suggestions that he has employed performance enhancing drugs as part of his training regime. He has strongly denied this, although 6 of his athletes were among 27 competitors dropped from China's team for the Sydney Olympic games after failing blood tests. As a result he was dropped as a coach from the Chinese Olympic team. Following this episode, he and his entire team of athletes disappeared for several months, fueling further suspicion.
Ma is also controversial for his temper tantrums. He has admitted to physically beating his athletes on occasion. His original squad fired him for many reasons, including the late allocation of sports bonuses.
Ma retired as deputy director of the Liaoning
Provincial Sports Bureau on December 1, 2004. He is recently interested in fostering world-class mastiff
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Han Chinese
Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and are the largest single ethnic group in the world.Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98% of the population of the Republic of China , 78% of the population of Singapore, and about 20% of the...
track
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
coach. He trained several world-class middle and long distance female runners including Wang Junxia
Wang Junxia
Wang Junxia is a Chinese former long-distance runner.-Career:Wang was coached by Ma Junren until 1995 and by Mao Dezhen from 1995 to her retirement after the 1996 Atlanta Olympics....
and Qu Yunxia
Qu Yunxia
Qu Yunxia is a Chinese Olympic athlete who specialized in the 1500 metres.At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she won a bronze medal on 1500 m. In 1993 she achieved the still standing world record in the 1500 metres at 3:50.46 minutes while running in the National Games of the People's...
, who hold several world records. He and his pupils are also called the Ma family army (馬家軍) for their stunning performance in domestic and international events.
Starting as a track coach in a remote rural middle school, he adopted a systematic, scientific training strategy, which includes encouragement, nutritional tonics using Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine refers to a broad range of medicine practices sharing common theoretical concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage , exercise , and dietary therapy...
and track training balancing stamina
Endurance
Endurance is the ability for a human or animal to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue. In humans, it is usually used in aerobic or anaerobic exercise...
and speed
Speed
In kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity ; it is thus a scalar quantity. The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance traveled by the object divided by the duration of the interval; the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as...
.
His training regimes are extremely rigorous, involving extremely high mileage (in excess of a marathon
Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...
per day) run at high altitude.
There have been suggestions that he has employed performance enhancing drugs as part of his training regime. He has strongly denied this, although 6 of his athletes were among 27 competitors dropped from China's team for the Sydney Olympic games after failing blood tests. As a result he was dropped as a coach from the Chinese Olympic team. Following this episode, he and his entire team of athletes disappeared for several months, fueling further suspicion.
Ma is also controversial for his temper tantrums. He has admitted to physically beating his athletes on occasion. His original squad fired him for many reasons, including the late allocation of sports bonuses.
Ma retired as deputy director of the Liaoning
Liaoning
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...
Provincial Sports Bureau on December 1, 2004. He is recently interested in fostering world-class mastiff
English Mastiff
The English Mastiff, referred to by virtually all Kennel Clubs simply as the Mastiff, is a breed of large dog perhaps descended from the ancient Alaunt through the Pugnaces Britanniae. Distinguishable by enormous size, massive head, and a limited range of colors, but always displaying a black mask,...
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