Original title: Single breakthrough promotes relay improvement (quote)
China Swimming Paris Olympic Games is worth looking forward to (theme)
Beijing Daily reporter Li Yuanfei
Chinese swimming in 2023 is amazing, with highlights in almost every competition. Qin Haiyang, Zhang Yufei, Pan Zhanle and many other top players won gold and silver, achieving wave after wave of good results, making people full of expectations for their journey to the Paris Olympics next year.
Qin Haiyang is the brightest
To measure the strength of a team, there is nothing more convincing than the record in the competition. In 2023, Chinese swimming won 5 golds, 3 silvers and 8 bronzes at the Fukuoka World Championships in July, setting 1 world record, 9 Asian records and 1 world youth record. In the Hangzhou Asian Games swimming competition that ended at the end of September, they won a total of 28 golds, 21 silvers and 9 bronzes. The number of gold medals created the best record in the Asian Games in team history. At the same time, they also set six Asian records.
This strength is largely due to the rise of Chinese men’s swimming. Qin Haiyang is undoubtedly the “brightest star” among them: at the National Spring Swimming Championships in March, he won the 100-meter breaststroke championship in 58.66 seconds, becoming the second Chinese athlete besides Yan Zibei to “break 59 seconds” in this event. ; At the National Swimming Championships in May, he clocked 26.63 seconds and 57.93 seconds respectively, leaving behind the Asian records for the men’s 50-meter breaststroke and 100-meter breaststroke; at the Fukuoka World Swimming Championships in July, he won the 50-meter and 100-meter In the two breaststroke events, he swam Asian records of 26.20 seconds and 57.69 seconds respectively, and broke the world record in the 200-meter breaststroke event with 2 minutes, 05.48 seconds; subsequently, he competed in the Chengdu Universiade, Hangzhou Asian Games and three World Cups. , Qin Haiyang won another 19 gold medals and was elected the best male swimmer in the annual World Swimming Federation selection in October.
Many people achieve breakthroughs
In addition to Qin Haiyang, another major breakthrough for Chinese swimming in 2023 comes from the men’s 100-meter freestyle. First, at the National Spring Swimming Championships in March, Wang Haoyu, who was born in July 2005, swam 47.89 seconds, becoming the third male athlete in China to swim within 48 seconds in the 100-meter freestyle event after Ning Zetao and Pan Zhanle. ; Then Pan Zhanle’s results were always within 48 seconds at the National Swimming Championships in May and the Fukuoka World Championships in July. At the Hangzhou Asian Games, he swam an astonishing new Asian record of 46.97 seconds, which was the fastest time in the world for this event. The record difference is only 0.11 seconds.
In addition, Sun Jiajun swam a time of 26.61 seconds at the National Swimming Championships in May, surpassing the Asian record for the men’s 50m breaststroke; veteran Wang Shun swam 1:54 in the men’s 200m individual medley at the Hangzhou Asian Games. 62 seconds, becoming the fastest swimmer among active athletes in this event.
For the women’s team, leader Zhang Yufei set the Asian record for the women’s 50-meter butterfly in 25.05 seconds at the Fukuoka World Championships; Li Bingjie broke the Asian record in the women’s 800-meter freestyle final at the Fukuoka World Championships with a time of 8 minutes and 13 seconds. 31 won the silver medal; at the Hangzhou Asian Games, the “post-2000” teenager Tang Qianting broke the Asian record of 30.08 seconds set at the Fukuoka World Championships in 29.92 seconds in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke competition.
Paris is worth looking forward to
The 2023 Chinese swimming relay event is also exciting. At the Fukuoka World Championships, the Chinese women’s 4×100m freestyle relay team broke the Asian record in 3 minutes, 32.40 seconds and won the bronze medal. The men’s 4×100m freestyle relay team broke the Asian record in this event held by the Japanese team in 3 minutes, 11.38 seconds. record. The show is not over yet. The Chinese men’s 4×100m freestyle relay team once again set a new Asian record at the Hangzhou Asian Games with a time of 3 minutes, 10.88 seconds.
The improvement of Chinese men’s 100-meter breaststroke and 100-meter freestyle also contributed to the take-off of the men’s 4×100-meter medley relay. At the Fukuoka World Championships, the Chinese team won the silver medal in the men’s 4×100m medley with a time of 3:29.00, setting a new Asian record. At the Hangzhou Asian Games, they raised the Asian record in the men’s 4×100m medley relay to 3:27.01. This result is the same as the Chinese men’s and women’s 4×100m medley relay team’s Asian record-breaking winning time of 3 minutes, 37.73 seconds at the Hangzhou Asian Games. Both are only slightly different from the world records in their respective events. It can be said that as long as Qin Haiyang, Zhang Yufei, Pan Zhanle, Xu Jiayu and others can continue to improve or even maintain their current level, Chinese swimming’s individual events and relays at next year’s Paris Olympics will be enough to look forward to.
2023-12-20 05:22:00
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