Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, October 6 Title: Strategic innovation reaps results, Chinese boxers aim for Paris – Overview of boxing events at the Hangzhou Asian Games
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zheng Zhi, Wang Chunyan and Dong Yixing
7 tickets to the Paris Olympics, 5 gold medals, 2 silver medals, and 2 bronze medals, ranking first in the boxing gold medal list and medal list – this is the report card handed over by the Chinese boxing team at the Hangzhou Asian Games. The team’s strategic innovation has yielded results, and Chinese boxers are more confident to set their sights on the Paris Olympics a year later.
On October 5, in the men’s 80kg boxing final of the Hangzhou Asian Games, Chinese player Tohtarbek Tanglatihan won the championship.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Linyun
In the current preparation cycle, the Chinese boxing team has changed its strategic thinking and adheres to “focusing on offense” and “putting me first”. Han Bo, deputy team leader of the Chinese boxing team, said that the team now emphasizes offense and confrontation, highlights the connotation of boxing, and is heading in the right direction.
The team has officially entered winter training in November 2022. During the winter training, collective learning was organized to discuss how to stimulate the “vitality” of the Chinese boxing team through innovation; during actual training, it changed its thinking and combined with the training concepts of Cuban foreign teachers, attaching great importance to physical fitness and competition. Practice combination and emphasize confrontation.
“(Now) the requirements for strong confrontation and physical ability are relatively high, (because) combined with the actual competition, you have to be able to punch and perform technical moves when your physical fitness is particularly severe.” Li Qian, a veteran of the women’s team, said Share your training experience.
On October 4, in the women’s 75kg boxing final of the Hangzhou Asian Games, Li Qian (left) defeated Indian player Lovlina Borgohain and won the championship.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhan Yan
Strategic innovation has reaped results. In Hangzhou, Li Qian, who had been on the podium at the Incheon Asian Games and the Rio and Tokyo Olympics but failed to win the gold medal, made up for her regrets and won the women’s 75kg gold medal at the age of 33; In addition, 32-year-old Yang Wenlu won the 60kg championship, Wu Yu won the 50kg class, and Yang Liu won the gold medal in the 66kg class. This time, 4 of the 5 gold medals won by the Chinese team were won by female boxers.
In terms of men’s boxers, Tohtarbek Tanglatihan won the 80kg category. As the second Chinese boxer after Zou Shiming to reach the finals of the Men’s Boxing World Championships, Tohtarbek won the Asian Games in Hangzhou. In the first match of the tournament, he faced Kazakhstan boxer Nurbek Oralbai, who defeated him in the World Championship final, and he narrowly defeated him 3:2. In the final on the 5th, he was hit by a countdown in the first round, but in the second round he counterattacked and caused a countdown by his opponent. After three rounds of hard work, he came back to win 5:0, and successfully ended the Chinese boxing team with a men’s major gold medal.
During this Asian Games journey, Chinese boxers demonstrated their tenacious fighting spirit and indomitable fighting spirit. Although Chang Yuan and Han Xuezhen failed to win gold medals in the women’s 54kg final and the men’s 92kg final, they both lost with a slight disadvantage of 2:3.
A total of 13 boxing gold medals were produced in the Asian Games. The Chinese women’s team has a clear advantage, but the men’s event is full of strong players. On the gold medal list, China ranks first with 5 gold medals, and Uzbekistan’s 3 gold medals all come from men’s events and span a wide range of levels. Among them, Bahodil Jarolov, the champion of the Asian Championships, World Championships, and Olympic Games, is among the top three. Showed dominance in the men’s 92kg and above competition. The remaining five gold medals were shared by five delegations including Tajikistan and Japan. Although Thailand failed to win the gold medal, it still ranked second in the medal list with 3 silver medals and 4 bronze medals.
On October 5, in the men’s 92kg and above boxing finals at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Uzbekistan’s Bahotil Jalolov (left) defeated Kazakhstan’s Kamshibek Kunkabayev and won the championship. .Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhan Yan
In addition to medals, boxers are competing for precious tickets to the Paris Olympics at the Hangzhou Asian Games. The Hangzhou Asian Games boxing competition produced a total of 34 Paris Olympics qualifications. Among them, 14 tickets for men belong to the finalists of 7 levels, and 20 tickets for women belong to the finalists of the 66kg and 75kg categories and the semi-finalists of the other 4 levels. player.
The Chinese team has won 7 seats in the Paris Olympics this time, including 5 for women and 2 for men. Han Bo said that the team will summarize the shortcomings next year and is very confident to win the gold medal at the Paris Olympics next year.
For the Chinese boxers who have tickets to Paris, whether the final result of this Asian Games is regret or joy, it is a great motivation for them to go all out in the Paris arena.
On October 3, in the men’s 92kg boxing final of the Hangzhou Asian Games, Tajikistan’s Davrat Boltaev (left) defeated China’s Han Xuezhen and won the championship, with Han Xuezhen finishing second.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhan Yan
“The Asian Games has just begun. I hope everyone can watch my performance in the Olympics. See you in Paris!” Han Xuezhen, who regretfully lost in the men’s 92kg final, choked up after the game.
“The regret at that time was finally (made up for) through nine years of hard work, training, and various competitions. This process was a kind of training for myself.” said Li Qian, who missed the gold medal at the Incheon Asian Games nine years ago.
She won a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics and a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. “I will ask myself to train harder, first time from bronze to silver, (hopefully) from silver to gold again.”
[Editor in charge: Chang Ning]
2023-10-06 11:48:58
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