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奥运火炬手（桂林）背景材料 Materialackground of Olympic Torch Bearers (Guilin) 肖建刚 男，1972年生，广西临桂人。１９９４年获全国冠军，打破亚洲挺举纪录；1996年获第26届奥运会64公斤级总成绩第三名；1997年获第68届世界男子举重锦标赛64公斤级挺举和总成绩两项冠军。 　　Xiao Jiangang M, born in 1972, a native of Lingui, Guangxi. In 1994, he won national champion and broke the Asian record in clean and jerk; in 1996, The third place in the total score of 64 kg class weightlifting competition in the 26th Olympics; In 1997, two champions in clean and jerk and the total score of the 64 kg class in the 68th World’s Man Weightlifting Championship. 提起肖家，临桂人如数家珍：60年代，肖明祥五破一平世界纪录；80年代，肖明林多次打破亚洲记录；90年代，肖建刚勇夺奥运会铜牌和世界举重锦标赛两项冠军。肖明祥一家六兄弟有四个人当过举重运动员，侄子肖建刚那一辈也有四人练过举重，肖建刚兄弟俩还成为专业举重运动员，并拿到不少国际、国家级奖牌。肖家堪称中国体育界的“举重之家”。 WXiao Family, Lingui people are very familiar with it: In the 1960s, Xiao Mingxiang broke the world record for five times and reached the world record once; In 1980s, Xiao Minglin broke the Asian record for several times; In 1990s, Xiao Jiangang won Olympic bronze medal and two champions in World Weightlifting Championship. Four of the six brothers of Xiao Mingxiang Family had been weightlifting athletes, the generation of his nephew Xiao Jiangang also has four having practiced weightlifting, Xiao Jiangang brothers also became professional weightlifting athletes, and received many international and national medals. Xiao Family is worthy of title “weightlifting home” in the Chinese sports circle. 　　肖建刚说：“我们家以前在农村，爷爷是当小就有名气的木匠，作为大哥的父亲曾是一名炮兵，一家人练举重就是从举炮弹开始的。二叔肖明祥经常和父亲叫劲，看谁举得更重。有一天，二叔在报纸上看到陈镜开打破世界纪录的报道后说：‘他能打破世界纪录，我也行。’”之后，肖明祥来到当时的广西举重班毛遂自荐，很快成为广西举重队主力，之后进入了国家队，从1965到1966年，他四次打破世界纪录。　 　　Xiao Jiangang said: “Our family in the past. My grandfather was a well-known carpenter from an early age. My father, as the eldest son, was once an artillerist and our family began practicing weightlifting with cannonball. My elder uncle Xiao Mingxiang often competed with my father, to see who could lift heavier. One day, upon reading the news that Chen Jingkai broke the world record, my