Chen, who leads the Tainan City Tekuang High School women's track and field team, has long emphasized weightlifting in the training of his athletes. After hearing the news, with the strong support of school principal Sun Pi-fang, he began training full-time weight lifters. It was then that Chu Nan-mei and Chen Shu-chih switched over from track and field to weightlifting.
帶領台南市德光女中田徑隊的陳谷豐，對於訓練田徑選手體能的「重量訓練」向來十分重視，他聽到這個消息之後，在校長孫碧芳全力支持下，隨即投入培訓選手，朱南美和陳淑枝就是此時由田徑轉練舉重。