Before Xia Fengyuan set the record, there were also many outstanding athletes in the Chinese men's 5,000-meter event. Like the "Prince of Asian Long-distance Running" Zhang Guowei, his sports career is equally brilliant. Zhang Guowei has participated in more than 50 national and international competitions, and has refreshed and maintained China's 3,000 meters, 5,000 meters, and 10,000 meters records 18 times. He won a silver medal in the 5000m run at the 9th Asian Games in 1982 (13:58.09) and a 5000m run at the 6th National Games in 1987 (13:41.24). Although Zhang Guowei did not become the 5,000-meter record holder, he made a huge contribution to the Chinese men's long-distance running event. At the 1982 New Delhi Asian Games, Zhang Guowei competed fiercely with Japanese and South Korean athletes in the men's 10,000-meter race, and finally won the gold medal by a narrow margin of 0.15 seconds over his Japanese opponents, which was the first gold medal won by Chinese men's long-distance running in the Asian Games, which greatly encouraged the Chinese track and field community.