In recent years, Chinese athletics has attracted more attention because of Su Bingtian's strong recovery, especially after Su Bingtian ran 9.83 seconds in the Tokyo Olympics, which caused a huge sensation.
From the Olympic Games to the National Games, Chinese athletics still maintain great attention through this shareholder wind, Su Bingtian realized his dream of 100 meters, and the last laugh in the men's 200 meters competition was Tang Xingqiang, a small man who was only 1 meter 69 tall and strongly surpassed the 200 meters Asian record and national record holder Xie Zhenye after entering the straights in the corner.
The 26-year-old Tang Xingqiang is the main member of China's 4×100m relay team, and the Chinese relay team, who is shorter than Su Bingtian, performed very well in the first base at the Tokyo Olympics, compared to Su Bingtian, who holds the Asian 100-meter record, and Xie Zhenye, who holds the 200-meter record, Tang Xingqiang's star taste is dim, and perhaps most people only remember that he is a member of the Chinese relay team.
Talking about Tang Xingqiang, he has to tell a few stories, which have a lot of direct relationship with his reversal of Xie Zhenye in the 200m final of the National Games.
Tang Xingqiang appeared at the Rio 2016 Olympics as an absolute newcomer to the Olympic Games, before which he had not even participated in the National Games and some other major competitions. After winning the fourth place in the Rio Olympic Games 4×100 meters relay with the Chinese relay team, Tang Xingqiang failed to make continuous progress, and once the relay team did not have Tang Xingqiang's position, and even was relegated to the Fujian provincial team.
What is even more embarrassing is that Tang Xingqiang's relationship with the former coach was once said by insiders that he might choose to retire, and a flower bone that has not yet bloomed may wither before dawn. At this time, Su Bingtian's mentor Yuan Guoqiang in the Guangdong team invited Tang Xingqiang to come to the Guangdong team for training, but the personal relationship remained in Fujian.
Tang Xingqiang came to the Guangdong team to gradually find a familiar feeling, whether it is 100 meters or 200 meters, Tang Xingqiang gradually came to a personal peak before the Tokyo Olympics, which also made him a member of the Chinese relay team again, and we can even expect that the Chinese relay team may get a medal that should belong to them in the future.
Tang Xingqiang registered for the men's 100m, 200m, 4×100m relay and 4×200m relay at the Shaanxi National Games, in order to better prepare for the 200m and 4×200m relays, Tang Xingqiang voluntarily withdrew from the 100m race, on September 21, Tang Xingqiang and Lin Qibang and other Fujian athletes ran a time of 1 minute 21.54 seconds that broke the national record and the Asian record in the 4× 200m preliminaries.
In the 200-meter preliminaries on the morning of September 22, Tang Xingqiang had already thrown off the second rising star of the group, Yan Haibin, far away in the first 150 meters, and still won the first place in the group in advance.
Whether it is withdrawing from the 100 meters or the early completion of the 200 meters preliminary round, this has laid the groundwork for Tang Xingqiang to run well in the 200 meters final. In the 200-meter final with Xie Zhenye in the competition, Tang Xingqiang entered the straights in the situation of being behind in the corner, and the 20.39 seconds of the result equaled Tang Xingqiang's personal 200m best result, while Xie Zhenye's performance was 20.43 seconds, Xie Zhenye was affected by injury and failed to run a better result, but being able to run out of his personal best to win this gold medal is also a great affirmation for Tang Xingqiang, even if he is only 1 meter 69 in height, he cannot stop the pace of his sprint.