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cai liwen won the gold medal in the paralympic games, and her alma mater shenghua college sent her congratulations

2024-09-02

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at 00:42 on september 2, 2024, cai liwen won the gold medal in the women's 100m backstroke s11 final of the paris paralympic games with a time of 1 minute and 14 seconds.
cai liwen was born in huichuan district, zunyi city in 1998. she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 2 and has been blind ever since. but the strong cai liwen did not give up. in 2006, she was selected by the coach for her outstanding performance at the first zunyi city games for the disabled and began her swimming career.
in 2021, cai liwen won 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals at the tokyo paralympic games; in 2023, cai liwen won the women's s11 100m backstroke championship at the 4th asian para games in hangzhou and broke the asian para games record, and the women's 200m individual medley sm11 championship... these hard-won honors are all rewards for cai liwen's hard work and persistence day after day.
what is even more rare is that cai liwen not only participated in swimming training every day, but also insisted on completing her studies. in 2017, cai liwen graduated from high school and took the special admissions examination for the blind at guizhou shenghua vocational college, and was successfully admitted to the rehabilitation technology major of guizhou shenghua vocational college. during her time at school, cai liwen would introduce her experiences to other students. she hoped that in this way, other blind students could understand the different lives of disabled people and let everyone know that even if they have physical defects, they can master many professional skills beyond the stereotypes.
cai liwen's achievements today made all the teachers and students of shenghua college feel extremely proud and happy for her, and everyone gave her encouragement. everyone hopes that cai liwen can continue to fight hard in the next competition and achieve better results. come on, cai liwen!
correspondent huang jian
guizhou daily tianyan news reporter gong qian
edited by wu ruixi
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