In the early morning of December 19, Beijing time, at the World Championships of Short Course Swimming held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Li Bingjie, a 19-year-old youngster of the Chinese swimming team, set a new record and competed in the 800-meter freestyle final, winning the first place in 8 minutes 02.90 seconds and winning a valuable gold medal. Li Bingjie broke the 2014 Spanish star Belmont's record of 8:03.41. At the same time, Li Bingjie's result is also the world's best result in this year's women's 800-meter freestyle event, reflecting the gold content of the results, Li Bingjie achieved the world's first in this project at the age of 19.
In fact, 19-year-old Li Bingjie is already an Olympic champion athlete, after li Bingjie won the gold medal in the women's 4x200 meters with teammates Zhang Yufei, Tang Muhan and Yang Junxuan at the Tokyo Olympic Games. In the past, Li Bingjie participated in the 800-meter event at the World Championships, respectively, silver medal and fourth place, of which li Bingjie won the silver medal at the age of 15 for the first time in the World Championships, reflecting her potential talent. Now that Li Bingjie has won the gold medal at the age of 19, she has fulfilled the expectations of the outside world and become a true world champion-level swimmer.
Li Bingjie's success is not accidental, at the age of 13, she began to compete in various competitions, and at the age of 15, she could win as many as 4 gold medals in the domestic National Games. It can be said that Li Bingjie has long shown the appearance of the future star of the Chinese swimming team, and now success is more like "natural".
Considering that Li Bingjie's personal peak has just begun, there is reason to believe that she can win more world championship gold medals in the future, and the Chinese swimming team can rely on the freestyle women's athlete in the future.
After Li Bingjie won the championship by breaking the record, the latest gold medal list of the Chinese swimming team was updated again, totaling 3 gold, and two gold medals had been recorded before. The first was Hong Kong's He Shibei's 100m freestyle and Zhang Yufei's gold medal in the 200m butterfly. With a total of 3 gold medals, the strength of the Chinese swimming team is still strong.
It is worth mentioning that in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where the short pool World Championships are held, the epidemic prevention situation of the whole city is very poor, and it is hoped that the Chinese swimming team needs to pay attention to personal safety while creating good results, and protection is the most important. As of December 18, as many as 7 original participants have been infected with the virus, and then isolated, safety first competition second, I hope that all the athletes of the Chinese swimming team can return healthy!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)