China’s two major track and field and swimming teams performed well——
Asian Games training aimed at Paris
■People’s Liberation Army Daily reporter He Min
Track and field and swimming have always been the “main battlefields” of the World Comprehensive Games and have attracted much attention.
At the Hangzhou Asian Games, the swimming event took the lead.
In the six-day competition, the Chinese swimming team won 28 golds, 21 silvers and 9 bronzes in 41 events, creating the best record in the history of the Asian Games.
Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang are undoubtedly the two leading figures in the Chinese swimming team. Zhang Yufei won 6 gold medals, broke the Asian record in the men’s and women’s 4×100m medley relay with her teammates, and set four competition records herself. On the 28th, despite a high fever, she still fought hard to win the women’s 50-meter freestyle championship, which showed the iron will of the “first sister” of the Chinese swimming team.
Qin Haiyang won three men’s breaststroke championships, achieving a “hat trick” in three consecutive competitions at the World Championships, Universiade and Asian Games. In addition, he also won two gold medals in relay events and a silver medal in the men’s 200-meter individual medley. Next year’s Olympic Games, the direct dialogue between British “Frog King” Peaty and Tan Haiyang is undoubtedly exciting.
It is worth mentioning that on the evening of October 7, the results of the selection of the most valuable athletes of the Hangzhou Asian Games were announced. Chinese athletes Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang were elected together. This is the high recognition of their performance in the Hangzhou Asian Games by the Olympic Council of Asia, and it is also For the first time in the history of the Asian Games, two most valuable athletes were selected.
Veteran players such as Wang Shun, Xu Jiayu and Ye Shiwen performed well in Hangzhou, and young players also began to take the lead. “Post-2000” Li Bingjie is already the backbone of the Chinese swimming team. She won 5 gold medals at the Asian Games and will continue to work hard to improve her strength.
What is more surprising than records and gold medals is that the Chinese swimming team has shown everyone that it has sufficient talent and a scientific and reasonable age structure. We have reason to expect that at the Paris Olympics, the Chinese swimming team will make more attacks and challenge the world’s top swimming teams such as the United States and Australia.
The swimming field is gradually calming down, but the track and field field is turbulent. Taking over swimming, the performance of the Chinese track and field team was equally amazing.
In recent Asian Games, the total number of gold medals won by the Chinese track and field team has remained at around 15, and it only won 12 gold medals at the Jakarta Asian Games. In Hangzhou, the Chinese track and field team finished perfectly with 19 gold medals, 11 silver medals and 9 bronze medals. Regardless of the number of gold medals or medals, they all rank first.
The growth of the Chinese track and field team is inseparable from hard work. In recent years, the Chinese track and field team has continuously improved its own level, and the group of events represented by women’s throwing, sprint jumping, and walking have achieved breakthroughs at the World Championships and Olympic Games. Women’s throwing is my country’s traditional advantageous event. Feng Bin in women’s discus and Gong Lijiao in women’s shot put both won championships in the competition. In terms of sprint jumping, Xie Zhenye and Ge Manqi won the men’s and women’s 100-meter championships, while Wang Jianan, Zhu Yaming, and Li Ling won golds in the men’s long jump, men’s triple jump, and women’s pole vault respectively. 19-year-old female long jumper Xiong Shiqi won the gold medal with a personal best of 6.73 meters. In the road race, the Chinese team won the men’s and women’s 20-kilometer race walking championships, as well as the mixed 35-kilometer race walking team gold medal.
Although Chinese track and field had many highlights at the Hangzhou Asian Games, it also left some regrets. The glory of winning nine consecutive championships in the men’s 110-meter hurdles for 37 years is gone forever. Compared with the emergence of powerful women’s hurdlers such as Lin Yuwei, Wu Yanni and Xia Sining, after Liu Xiang and Xie Wenjun, there is no successor in the Chinese men’s hurdles. In the middle and long-distance running events, China’s track and field is still catching up. Wang Chunyu’s women’s 800m bronze medal is one of the few gains.
Generally speaking, Chinese athletes performed well at the Hangzhou Asian Games, demonstrating the good spirit of Chinese track and field. As the most important training session in the Paris Olympic cycle, the Chinese track and field team defended its status as Asia’s hegemon. The Chinese track and field team, which is in the process of transitioning from old to new, has gained confidence, and a series of problems exposed at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest are also being resolved. In the future, how to continue to consolidate the leading position of traditional advantageous events, learn from each other’s strengths and further tap the potential of potential advantageous events will be the key to whether China’s track and field can achieve a breakthrough in Paris.
2023-10-10 11:57:00
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