Hangzhou girl Zou Jiaqi won the rowing ticket for the Paris Olympics and will go on to win the first gold medal in the Asian Games in Hangzhou.
On September 9, good news came from the 2023 World Rowing Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. On the first semi-final day, the women’s lightweight double sculls pair Zou Jiaqi and Qiu Xiuping performed well and finished sixth, successfully qualifying for the Paris Olympics in this event.
Zou Jiaqi is a girl from Hangzhou who was born in 2001. At the Hangzhou Asian Games, she and her teammates will participate in the rowing women’s lightweight double sculls on the morning of September 24. This event produced the first gold medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games. , Zou Jiaqi and teammate Qiu Xiuping have strong competitiveness in this project and will launch an attack on the first gold medal.
A physical education class in primary school
Get her on the rowing path
Zou Jiaqi was born in Tonglu on November 4, 2001. Her rowing career started in a physical education class in the fourth grade of primary school.
At that time, the coach of the Hangzhou Municipal Team went to Hengcun Central Primary School to select sports talents and took a fancy to Zou Jiaqi who was playing football on the playground. Faced with the appreciation of the city team coach, Zou Jiaqi’s parents were hesitant at first. They were worried that Zou Jiaqi, who was only ten years old, would go to the city team alone and would not be able to take good care of herself and get used to the high-intensity training life.
But the little girl’s decision gave her parents reassurance, and she entered the rowing team of Hangzhou Aquatic Sports Center to participate in training. During this period, there were times when she retreated, but in the end, with the support of her family, she gritted her teeth and persevered.
In 2018, Zou Jiaqi entered the Zhejiang Provincial Women’s Lightweight Rowing Team and won second place in the national competition for the first time. In 2020, she participated in the National Rowing Championships as a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Team, defeated the national team players, and won the 2000-meter women’s lightweight gold medal, and then entered the national team.
In the following years, Zou Jiaqi appeared in major national and world competitions, competed frequently, won awards frequently, and won many championships. And every time there is a competition, the whole family will come to the scene to cheer for her. In the 2023 National Rowing Spring Championships, Zou Jiaqi won first place in the adult lightweight women’s double sculls. Subsequently, she was also shortlisted for the best female athlete in the Zhejiang Province “Top Ten Sports” selection event. .
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Challenge Hangzhou Asian Games first gold medal
In every comprehensive event such as the Asian Games and Olympic Games, the birth of the first gold medal always attracts attention from the outside world. In the history of the Asian Games, the first gold medals have gone to martial arts, shooting and other sports, but the Hangzhou Asian Games is different.
On September 8, the Hangzhou Asian Games schedule 3.0 was released. Referring to the previously announced Hangzhou Asian Games overall schedule, units and minor events, the first gold medal of the Hangzhou Asian Games will be won in the rowing women’s lightweight double sculls event held at the Fuyang Water Sports Center on the morning of September 24.
This is Zou Jiaqi’s strength, and it is also the event she will participate in at the 2023 World Rowing Championships. At the 2022 Rowing World Cup Belgrade in May last year, Zou Jiaqi and Qiu Xiuping won the women’s lightweight with a time of 6 minutes, 55 seconds and 42 seconds. Class double sculls runner-up, the two won another championship at the “Charming Hangzhou” 2023 National Rowing Spring Championship in April this year.
Although rowing is a relatively niche event, the Chinese rowing team has always performed well at the Asian Games and achieved excellent results many times. At the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, the Chinese rowing team won 4 gold medals and 2 silver medals, and won them all for two consecutive years. Gold medals in men’s and women’s double sculls. The rowing event of the Hangzhou Asian Games will be held at the Fuyang Water Sports Center from September 20th to 25th, and 14 gold medals will be produced.
In addition to Zou Jiaqi, Zhejiang athletes have many other highlights worthy of attention in the water sports of this Asian Games. Among them, Ji Bowen in the men’s rowing event, Wang Congkang, Li Dongjian, Wang Nan and other players in the kayak event are all capable of competing for the gold medal.
2023-09-11 00:25:00
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