Original title: Gymnastics World Championships concluded (citation)
Chinese gymnastics is still “Yang prosperous and yin decline” (theme)
Xinmin Evening News reporter Guan Yin
With famed player Zou Jingyuan winning the men’s parallel competition with a perfect set of moves on the final day of competition, the Chinese team’s final result at the 2022 Gymnastics World Cup is set at 3 gold and 2 silver, finishing second in the ranking list of gold medals. Seeing the results, not to mention the shortcomings, is the harvest of the Chinese gymnastics team’s trip to the UK. Among the 5 medals, the men’s team won 4 medals, while the women’s team only got 1. The situation of “prosperity and decline” in Chinese gymnastics has not changed.
The world championships held in Liverpool, England are the first world championships to adopt the rules of Paris Olympic cycling gymnastics. The Chinese team is only behind the United States in the gold medal rankings and ahead of another gymnastic powerhouse, Japan. Among the 5 medals of the Chinese team, 4 were won by the men’s team: Zhang Boheng, Zou Jingyuan, You Hao, Sun Wei and Yang Jiaxing together won the men’s team gold medal (see Xinhua News Agency on the left), Zou Jingyuan won the parallel bars gold medal and the ring silver medal, Zhang Boheng won the all-round individual silver medal. Among them, 24-year-old veteran Zou Jingyuan won 2 gold and 1 silver, showing the style of the leader.
Conversely, the performance of the women’s team was much weaker. Eighteen-year-old Wei Xiaoyuan won the gold medal in the asymmetrical parallel bars competition and, while defending her title, she became the only Chinese player to win the World Championships. In the women’s team competition, the Chinese team consisting of Tang Qianjing, Ou Yushan, Luo Rui, Wei Xiaoyuan and Zhang Jin made many mistakes and in the end only finished sixth, missed the top three and missed the opportunity to secure your qualification for this event at the Paris Olympics in advance.
Ye Zhennan, Deputy Director of the Gymnastics Management Center of the General Sports Administration of the People’s Republic of China, said summing up the Chinese team’s performance that achieving 3 golds and 2 silvers can basically be considered the completion of the task. Most rewarding is that the men’s team finally won the championship and won the Olympic Games on condition of poor performance in the qualifying competition. However, the competition showed the Chinese team the problem and, in less than two years before the Paris Olympics, they had to rise to the challenge.
Ye Zhennan believes that if they play normally, the strength of the Chinese women’s team should be able to make it into the top three, but the players have made big mistakes, especially in the strengths such as the balance beam, which makes the team more aware of building brackets. and the players’ ability to withstand the pressure, problems need to be resolved urgently. “The women’s team obviously has some weaknesses, which are the vaulting and the floor exercises. These players are from the last cycle, so we need to replenish fresh blood as soon as possible.”
Looking forward to the Paris Olympics, Ye Zhennan said the men’s team’s current talent pool is more optimistic than in previous Olympic rounds. As for the women’s team with a slightly thin echelon, the Chinese team also looked for some seedlings through age-appropriate selection of the Paris Olympics, but was not fully focused on the national team. He said: “The competition in the field of Olympic gymnastics has always been fierce and difficult, but the Chinese team will adhere to the requirements of ‘high difficulty, high quality and high stability’ in training; Players with strength and status will be selected, and it will come selected the best personnel. Furthermore, the team will also attach great importance to the recovery of injuries of the athletes and to the improvement of their psychological resistance to pressure “.
