Recently, Zhejiang University announced the list of personnel to be hired in 2024, which showed that Fu Yuanhui will join the Department of Public Physical Education and Art, with teaching as the main position. Related news has attracted attention.
Staff from the Human Resources Office of Zhejiang University said that it is currently in the publicity stage. Once there is no objection to the publicity, the normal onboarding process will be started.
Source: Zhejiang University official website
According to the official website, the Public Sports and Arts Department of Zhejiang University was established on February 9, 2012. Its main function is to undertake the curriculum education of the school’s public sports arts, and provide sports teams, art troupes, and students at different levels. Guidance of societies, management services of sports and art venues, sports competitions at all levels and inside and outside the school, theatrical performances and external exchanges.
At present, the Sports and Arts Department has established 5 high-level sports teams in men’s basketball, women’s volleyball, track and field, tennis, and women’s football, 11 ordinary student B-level teams in swimming, table tennis, badminton, dragon boat, etc., taekwondo, rugby, etc. There are 10 general student C teams including rowing, radio direction finding, quality development, and Tai Chi.
It is worth mentioning that it is not an exception for athletes to work in colleges and universities. In May of this year, Jilin University’s Talent Office issued an announcement on the personnel to be introduced to the fourth teaching and scientific research working group in 2024. Among them, Chinese short-track speed skater Wu Dajing is planned to be hired as a professor at the School of Physical Education of Jilin University and designated as Kuang Yaming's leading professor a position.
In 2023, table tennis Olympic champion Ding Ning graduated from the Department of Physical Education and Research of Peking University with a master's degree in physical education. He later served as a lecturer in the Department of Physical Education and Research of Peking University, with a research focus on sports training.
Source: cctv
Public information shows that Fu Yuanhui was born on January 7, 1996 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. She is an athlete of the Chinese National Women's Swimming Team.
On August 8, 2016, in the women's 100-meter backstroke semifinals at the Rio Olympics, Fu Yuanhui advanced to the final with a personal best time of 58.95 seconds at the time. In the post-match interview, she was overjoyed and became famous overnight with her natural and vivid expressions and candid and humorous expressions. In the backstroke final, Fu Yuanhui finally won third place and holds the national record in this event.
In the same year, Fu Yuanhui was elected as one of the "Top Ten Influential People born in the 1990s in China" and "China's Top Ten Most Popular Female Athletes of the Lawrence Champion Award" in 2016. In December 2017, she won the 2017 FINA Most Popular Chinese Athlete of the Year.
In 2020, 39 people, including Fu Yuanhui and diver Cao Yuan, obtained postgraduate qualifications and joined the championship graduate class of Beijing Sport University.
In June this year, Fu Yuanhui graduated from Beijing Sport University with a master's degree.
She also posted: "I have graduated. Thank you to Beijing Sport University, thank you to all the teachers in the championship class and my mentors! I have to go on in a positive way!"
Source: Social account of the person involved
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