Yesterday, in the 2022 World Race Walking Team Championships held in Oman, mainland chinese Ma Zhenxia and Yang Jiayu performed well, winning the women's 20 km championship and runner-up in the adult group respectively, and in the end, the Chinese team won the team championship of the project.
In this competition, the Chinese team has a total of four players, namely Yang Jiayu, Ma Zhenxia, Yang Liujing and Ma Li. Among them, Ma Zhenxia took the lead in crossing the finish line and won the first place with a time of 1 hour 30 minutes and 22 seconds, yang Jiayu, the favorite who won the championship, won the second place in 1 hour 31 minutes and 54 seconds, and Yang Liujing and Ma Li ranked seventh and tenth respectively. The Chinese team won the women's 20 km team championship with the outstanding performance and excellent results of the four runners, and in the previous competition, the Chinese team has won the individual and team championships in the youth men's 10 km and women's 10 km events.
In the women's 20 km event, the performance of Ma Zhenxia, who won the championship, was eye-catching. Born in 1998, Ma Zhenxia won the gold medal in the women's 5,000 meters at the 2015 World Junior Athletics Championships and the gold medal in the women's 10,000 meters at the 2016 World U20 Athletics Championships, which was also the first gold medal at the World U20 Athletics Championships. Winning the world championship is of profound significance to Ma Zhenxia, which is a big competition in her career, and winning the championship is undoubtedly an affirmation and encouragement for her.
Compared with Ma Zhenxia, another player, Yang Jiayu, may be more well-known. Yang Jiayu was born in 1996 in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia. As a child, she showed enthusiasm and talent for sports, and her sports career was also very bright, Yang Jiayu broke the women's world record in 2021 with a time of 1 hour, 23 minutes and 49 seconds. Not only did she train hard, but she was also highly talented. The coach believes that Yang Jiayu has a lot of room for development and should develop into a leader in women's race walking. This is a high evaluation, and we also believe that Yang Jiayu will bring us more surprises in the future.
Race in the eyes of the public is often a boring sport, to overcome this boring, the need for race walkers to pay a lot of patience, this seemingly simple sport, in fact, also need a lot of skills, it has strict requirements for athletes, just start to practice when the action is standardized is not an easy task. In this year's competition, the Chinese team has achieved extraordinary results in this sport, the names of these athletes deserve our memories, their sportsmanship deserves our praise, congratulations to the girls! Congratulations to the Chinese team!