Athletics

Athletics

Introduction to LZU High-level Track and Field Team

LZU High-level Track and Field Team was founded in 1987. It runs accordance with the developing path of “Integration of Sports and Teaching” and aderes to the guideline of “Unity, Responsibility and Honor”. Also, it has upheld the spirit of scientific management and innovation and highlighted the development of sole sport program for many years. Thus, LZU High-level Track and Field Team has witnessed huge improvement and ranked the forefront in the Chinese College Track and Field Championship.

Representing Gansu Province, LZU High-level Track and Field Team jointed the Chinse College Sports Games for eight times with great achievements. Over recent years, it won 10 golden medals, 28 silver medals and 14 coppr medals in the Chinse College Sports Games and Chinse College Track and Field Championship. It also brock a record in the Chinse College Sports Games, and broke records for many times in the Chinse College Track and Field Championship. In addition, it cultivated 8 top-notch players and 52 first grade sportsman in total. Meanwhile, LZU High-level Track and Field Team educated many outstanding students, including 3 students receiving postgraduate education for free-examination, 7 students receiving postgraduate education, and all teammates gained bachelar’s degree.

Basketball Team

There are many basketball amateurs in LZU, which lay a good foundation for the generalization and popularization of basketball in western China. Men’s basketball team of LZU once won the sixth grade in Chinese College Basketball Association and the champion in the Gansu Sports Games of College Students. Through creating a good atmosphere for university basketball, LZU will further promote the popularization of basketball in western China.

Martial Arts Team(Wushu)

Martial Arts, one of the great treasures of China’s traditional culture, was rooted in splendid traditional Chinese culture for thousands of years. It has long been recognized as cultural symbol of China across the world. Founded in 2001, the martial arts team of LZU(Lanzhou University) has recruited over 90 players by now and more than 50 of whom were qualified as martial masters, the highest level for martial arts athletes in China. Martial arts team of LZU won 455 medals from 2002 to 2018, and among them, 219 are gold medals, 144 are silver medals, and 92 are bronze medals. Meanwhile, the team has won the world champion 9 times and the intercontinental champion 4 times. Moreover, the team also has won champions in the National Sports Games of College Students and China College Students Martial Arts Tournament for many times. In the 29th National College Sports Games held in Taiwan in 2017, Li Mengnan (student from the LZU School of Management), a player of martial arts team of LZU, won two gold medals in the match of men’s Northern boxing, sabreplay and cudgel play, brought great fame to LZU even China, and led the sports career of both LZU and Chian into a new level. The LZU martial arts team has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution Awards by the Federation of University Sports of China (FUSC), which became a symbol of LZU sports career.

Introduction to LZU High-level Women’s Valleyball Team

LZU High-level Women’s Valleyball Team is among the top 12 in the Chinese College Valleyball League. It was qualified the national finals in the Chinese College Valleyball League in 2015 and 2017 and won the copper medal in the 2016 Chinese College Valleyball Championship. Also, LZU High-level Women’s Valleyball Team stimulates the improvement of undergraduate volleyball program. In 2015, the graduate team of LZU won the women team’s championship as well as the men team in the valleyball program of The 3th Gansu College Sports Games.