Original title: Hangzhou Asian Games丨Equestrian Preview: Veterans and young players are looking forward to new breakthroughs
Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, September 21 (Reporter Gao Meng) The Hangzhou Asian Games equestrian competition will be held at the Tonglu Equestrian Center from September 26 to October 6. A total of 21 teams will participate. The Chinese team will send 11 athletes to the event. The medal strikes.
The equestrian competition of this Asian Games consists of three events: dressage, obstacle course and eventing. Each event is divided into individual competition and team competition, and a total of 6 gold medals will be awarded.
Among the Chinese team’s lineup, Huatian, Bao Yingfeng, Sun Huadong, and Liang Ruiji, who have already qualified for the Olympics in the equestrian triathlon team event, will all participate.
In June this year, the Chinese team they formed in the Paris Olympic equestrian triathlon F/G group qualifying competition held in Millstreet, Ireland, finished with 122.1 penalty points, beating the Japanese team to finish second and win the Paris Olympics. Ticket to the Olympic equestrian eventing team event. This is also the second time in history that the Chinese team has qualified for the Olympic team competition in equestrian triathlon.
In the obstacle course, the Chinese team will send Li Yaofeng, Zhang Xingjia, Wang Yunjing and Chen Yuchen. This is an extremely young team, with an average age of only 23 years old.
Li Yaofeng and Zhang Xingjia have participated in the Tokyo Olympics obstacle course in 2021. As the only Chinese female rider participating in the obstacle course of this Asian Games, Wang Yunjing has previously partnered with her beloved horse Quidamia D to successfully break into the second round of the 2022 FEI World Championships obstacle course and compete in the second round. The race was completed with an excellent time of 85.68 seconds and 0 penalty points.
The contestants in the dressage event are Huang Zhuoqin, Lan Chao and Rao Jiayi. The Hangzhou Asian Games will be the third Asian Games for veteran Huang Zhuoqin. Previously, he participated in the 2002 Busan Asian Games and the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. At the Busan Asian Games, he and his teammates won the team bronze medal for the Chinese team. At the Guangzhou Asian Games, he and his teammates won the team silver medal in this project.
In the team competition of the obstacle course in the past three Asian Games, the Saudi team and the Qatar team took turns to win; the team championship titles of dressage and eventing were alternately won by the Japanese team and the South Korean team.
In addition, the UAE team, Kazakhstan team and Hong Kong team are all strong contenders for medals.
2023-09-21 15:25:00
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