The 2021 Short Course Swimming World Championships continue to be held in Abu Dhabi, UNITED Arab Emirates, and this competition is more eye-catching than the sluggish men's team. Tokyo Olympic champions Zhang Yufei and Li Bingjie already have gold medals in the account, and the number of gold medals they won will increase in the future competitions. Before this World Championship, the outside world generally believed that the Chinese team would most likely return home at the end of the season, after all, since the Shaanxi National Games, the team has not found a sense of competition through international competitions for a long time. After the unexpected loss of the first gold rush, the pressure on the Chinese swimming team increased in vain, but the women's team finally shined at the World Championships after a few months of silence.
At this World Championships, the Chinese swimming team has a clear goal, on the one hand, to test the competitive status and level of the main players, on the other hand, it also hopes to use the stage of the World Championships to fully train new talents and prepare for the Paris Olympic Games. A new set of lineups debuted at the World Championships, and what kind of results could be achieved, everyone had a question mark in their hearts. The first gold for the Chinese team came from Zhang Yufei, who won the women's 200m butterfly final to get the opening red for the team. What people did not expect was that Zhang Yufei originally thought that Zhang Yufei was thriving, but finally ushered in a hundred flowers.
Li Bingjie took the lead in the women's 800m freestyle final and won her first world championship gold medal. She then swam 3:55.83 in the women's 400m freestyle, winning another victory after the 800m freestyle. This is Li Bingjie's second individual gold medal at this World Championship and the third gold medal of the Chinese team. Although Zhang Yufei only finished fifth in the women's 50m butterfly final, she still had a chance to win the championship in the women's 100m and relay events. In the case of the continued downturn of the men's team, the women's team emerged and became the mainstay of the Chinese swimming team to win gold.
In addition to Zhang Yufei and Li Bingjie, in the semi-finals of the women's 100m breaststroke, youngster Tang Qianting broke the Asian record for the short pool of the project with a time of 1:03.99, and as long as she plays normally, she is expected to add icing on the cake to the team. At the time of the women's team's successes, many media have exclaimed the performance of the Chinese team's female players, they believe that throughout the Paris Olympic Games cycle, the Chinese swimming team will emerge in more women's events, and even reach the level comparable to the Australian and American women's teams. Some people also believe that the pool distance of the Short Pool World Championships is very different from the Olympic Games and other competitions, which also directly affects the performance of the team members.
Although the Chinese women's team has won consecutive victories and almost opened the gold-winning mode in the women's event, it still needs to summarize and calmly face the ups and downs of the results. In this World Championship, some of the world's top masters did not come to participate, and the intensity and level of confrontation of the competition were far less than those of the Olympic Games, which was one of the reasons why the team members could easily win gold. Next season's Swimming World Championships is the best touchstone to test the strength of the players. In this competition, the Chinese swimming team currently occupies the top position in the gold medal list, can they maintain their advantage to the end?
(Luo Treasurer)