The Chinese swimming team achieved good results at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, winning 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. In particular, the young player Zhang Yufei, who is only 24 years old, stood on the highest podium and became the leader of the new generation of the Chinese team. Zhang Yufei won the gold medal in the women's 200m butterfly and the gold medal in the women's 4X200m freestyle relay. In the Shaanxi National Games, Zhang Yufei ruled the pool, winning 3 gold medals in a row, and in just 2 months, she won 5 gold medals. In an interview, Zhang Yufei quipped that the cabinet in her home could no longer hold medals.
Zhang Yufei has become China's new "butterfly queen", with outstanding strength and is the pool goddess in everyone's mind. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Yufei once said in an interview that she no longer wants to swim with male athletes, because the waves when male athletes swim are too large. "I don't swim with male players, it's so scary, I turned around and came out, and the waves lifted me up." Then chase me in the back and swim later, as long as it's not male next to me."
In fact, many netizens are very curious, Zhang Yufei is already an Olympic champion, if she competes with male players, how many will she get? Just recently, Zhang Yufei and male athletes competed together, and it was not a mixed relay race, but a single competition, Zhang Yufei and male players arranged together to compare and watch, it seems that the idea is also very novel.
According to the official report of People's Daily Sports, the Shanghai swimming team held a three-day spring grand prix in order to test the training results and stimulate the morale of the athletes, after the Chinese diving team held a 4-day test match in order to test the success of winter training and to prepare for the World Championships and the Asian Games, and Quan Hongchan won two firsts. Zhang Yufei, as a female member of the swimming team, participated in the men's 100-meter butterfly competition this time.
How many places did that Yu Fei get? According to the People's Daily, Zhang Yufei finally achieved a time of 56.56 seconds, ranking fifth. The first one won 54.65 seconds, almost 2 seconds ahead of Zhang Yufei, and the swimming competition is like this, a very slight advantage, and the ranking may vary widely. In the preliminaries, Zhang Yufei scored 56.49 seconds, which is also very good. In fact, Zhang Yufei is not better than male athletes, which is completely normal, after all, women's physical fitness and men are very different, Zhang Yufei is the best female butterfly swimmer in the world, but if you compete directly with male athletes, you certainly do not have an advantage.
It is reported that the best time for the women's 100m butterfly this year belongs to Sweden's Sjöström, who made a 56.70 seconds day on April 10. Another Swedish player, Louis Hansen, and American Claire Kazan, both swam 56.89 seconds and tied for second place, with only the three of them swimming 57 seconds in the women's 100m butterfly this year. Zhang Yufei's results in the test match created the world's best result in the butterfly swimming event this year. However, since the test match is not an official race, the best result in the 100-meter butterfly still belongs to Shestrom. Zhang Yufei said bluntly that the results of this test match also met expectations and did not regress.
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Yufei and Wang Shun, another swimming champion of the Chinese team, are still very good friends, and Wang Shun's strength is outstanding, if the two can PK in the pool in the future, I believe it will receive great attention.