Picture: Xinhua News Agency selects China’s top ten athletes in 2023
[Ta Kung Pao News]According to Xinhua News Agency: Xinhua News Agency’s Sports Department has selected China’s top ten athletes in 2023 as follows (sorted by initial stroke):
1 Ding Liren (male, 31 years old, chess)
On April 30, at the 2023 FIDE World Chess Championship held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, Ding Liren defeated Russian chess player Nepomniach in the last game of the rapid chess playoff, making chess history The 17th world champion and the first world chess champion from China.
2 Wang Chuqin (male, 23 years old, table tennis)
At the Hangzhou Asian Games, Wang Chuqin became the first table tennis player to win four gold medals in men’s singles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles and men’s team at the same Asian Games. At the Durban World Table Tennis Championships in May, Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong helped the Chinese team regain the men’s doubles championship, and teamed up with Sun Yingsha to defend the mixed doubles championship.
3 Chinese Women’s Basketball Team
On July 2, in the 2023 Women’s Basketball Asian Cup final, the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team 73:71, winning the championship again after 12 years. Han Xu was named the most valuable player of the tournament. She and her teammate Li Meng Jointly selected for the best team of the tournament. On October 5, the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team again and defended the Asian Games women’s basketball championship.
4 Wen Xiaoyan (female, 26 years old, disabled track and field)
Wen Xiaoyan participated in the women’s 100m T37, women’s 200m T37, women’s long jump T37/38 and 4×100m mixed relay and won gold medals in four events at the Hangzhou Asian Para Games. Three of the individual events broke the world record, the relay event broke the Asian record.
5 Liu Qingyi (female, 18 years old, break dancing)
In the break dance final of the Hangzhou Asian Games, Liu Qingyi defeated Japanese star Ami Yuasa 2:1, winning the first women’s gold medal in break dance in the history of the Asian Games and winning a ticket to the Paris Olympics. Liu Qingyi also won the championship in this year’s Olympic points competition in Kitakyushu, Japan and Montpellier, France.
6 Zhang Zhizhen (male, 27 years old, tennis)
In 2023, Zhang Zhizhen became the first mainland Chinese male tennis player in history to advance to the quarterfinals of the Masters (Madrid Masters). He won the five-set match of a Grand Slam main draw for the first time and defeated the top five high-level players in the world for the first time. In September, Zhang Zhizhen won the men’s singles gold medal at the Asian Games and qualified for the Paris Olympics. This was the first time in 29 years that Chinese men’s tennis reached the top of Asia.
7 Zhang Yufei (female, 25 years old, swimming)
In 2023, Zhang Yufei participated in the Fukuoka World Swimming Championships, the Chengdu Universiade, the Hangzhou Asian Games, and the three FINA World Cups (Berlin, Athens, Budapest). She won 23 golds, 4 silvers, and 2 bronzes in 59 events, and was awarded the Hangzhou title. Asian Games Most Valuable Athlete (MVP). At the World Championships, she won the women’s 100-meter butterfly event and won her first gold medal at the World Championships.
8 Dong Hongjuan (female, 43 years old, mountaineering)
On April 26, Chinese climber Dong Hongjuan successfully climbed to the top of Shishapangma Peak at an altitude of 8,027 meters. As confirmed by the international mountaineering and summit certification website 8000ers.com, Dong Hongjuan has become the first woman in the world to summit all 14 8,000-meter peaks.
9 Qin Haiyang (male, 24 years old, swimming)
At the Fukuoka World Swimming Championships in July, Qin Haiyang became the first person in history to win three gold medals in the men’s 50-meter, 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke, and broke the men’s 200-meter breaststroke world record. He also won 5 gold medals at the Chengdu Universiade, was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) at the Hangzhou Asian Games, was crowned the World Cup Annual Champion at the Swimming World Cup, and was awarded the FINA’s Best Male Swimmer in October.
10 Xie Zhenye (male, 30 years old, track and field)
At the Hangzhou Asian Games, Xie Zhenye won the men’s 100m championship with a time of 9.97 seconds. Later, Xie Zhenye and his teammates won the men’s 4×100m relay gold medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games. On the evening of October 4, he and his teammates were also awarded the Tokyo Olympics men’s 4×100 meter relay bronze medal.
2023-12-26 20:02:58
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