Good news from the 1st National Student (Youth) Games: Fujian athletes won another 2 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes
Quanzhou Evening News, Nanning (Special Correspondent Wu Congwei) The first National Student (Youth) Games is in full swing. As of the afternoon of November 12, Fujian Province has won a total of 25 golds, 20 silvers and 28 bronzes in the open competition.
On November 11, Fujian players won another 2 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals in badminton, gymnastics and other competitions.
The badminton matches ended that night, and each of the 7 gold medals went to their respective owners. In the men’s singles final, Hu Zhe’an (Zhejiang), who had won the runner-up in the men’s singles final of the 2023 World Youth Badminton Championships, played steadily. Through fierce offense, he defeated Zhu Xuanchen (Hubei) 2:1 and won the gold medal. In the women’s singles final, Xu Wenjing of the Jiangsu Nanjing team defeated Sun Zichun of the Liaoning Shenyang team in straight games through a combination of pulling and hanging and changing the ball path, and won the gold medal.
In the men’s doubles final, the duel between Fujian Xiamen team Lin Xiangyi/Ma Shang and Xu Huayu/Zhang Kunzhong (Shandong Jinan team) was particularly close, with the scores of the two teams rising alternately. Lin Xiangyi/Ma Shang won the first game with a slight advantage of 21:19 and the second game with 25:23. The difference in both games was only 2 points. Talking about winning the championship, Ma Shang said: “With this gold medal, my youth competition has ended perfectly.”
In addition to the previously concluded team competition, so far, all 7 gold medals in the open group badminton competition of this year’s Youth League have been awarded. The Jiangsu Nanjing team won two gold medals, and the remaining gold medals were divided among the five teams.
Fujian badminton star Ma Shang was born in 2005 and is a native of Fuding. His personal main event is men’s badminton doubles. He has won the men’s team runner-up and doubles runner-up in the second national youth games in 2019, the men’s team championship in the national youth badminton championship in 2022, the men’s doubles runner-up in the group A, and the men’s doubles championship in the 2023 Asian Youth Badminton Championships. World Youth Badminton Championship mixed team champion, men’s doubles champion. Lin Xiangyi, who just turned 17 this year, was born on February 27, 2006. His personal main event is men’s doubles, and his first coach is Chen Xiaojian. Lin Xiangyi entered the Xiamen Sports Team for training in 2015 and entered the National Youth Team in 2021. He won the men’s doubles championship in Group B of the 2023 National Youth Badminton Championships.
That night the women’s gymnastics individual all-around final was held at the Guangxi Sports Center Gymnasium. Chen Feng of Fujian Fuzhou team won the Group A championship with 50.875 points.
In the Group A competition, Chen Feng was far ahead with a total score 0.825 points higher than the second place. In the competition of four events, Chen Feng got the highest score in the vault competition, the second best result in the balance beam, and the third place in the uneven bars and floor exercise. In her second jump of the vault, 0.1 points were deducted because one foot accidentally went out of bounds. However, with her excellent performance, she still scored the highest average score of 12.825 points in the two jumps, widening the point gap with other players.
Chen Feng’s coach Luo Feng said: “Chen Feng adjusted her mentality very well today. Although she said she was a little lacking, it is not easy to successfully compete in this all-around competition, so she won this championship. Deserved.”
Chen Feng’s teammate Li Rongjinyi won the silver medal with 50.050 points, after she and Chen Feng won a gold medal for Fujian in the women’s Group A team competition.
Chen Feng, 13 years old this year, won the 2022 National Youth Gymnastics U Series Championships Women’s U12 Vault and Uneven Bars gold medals, the 2023 National Youth Gymnastics U Series Championships Women’s Group A U14 team gold medals and bronze medals in vault and uneven bars. (Photo source: Youth Association News Center)
Editor in charge: Huang Yifen
2023-11-12 07:49:00
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