The 2022 Swimming World Championships will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from June 18 to July 3, and the Chinese swimming team and the Chinese flower tour team that will participate in the competition will depart for Budapest today, and the Chinese diving team will also leave later. This competition is the first international competition in the Paris Olympic cycle, and the Chinese swimmers are also ready to show their skills at the World Championships. The Chinese swimming team, Zhang Yufei, who won two gold and two silver at the Tokyo Olympics, was very low-key before the game, and Wang Shun, who was also the Olympic champion, shouted that he wanted to win a grand slam; The goal of the Chinese diving team, 10-meter platform double shu Quan Hongchan and Chen Yaoxi are to win the double crown, but they are destined to be only one person who can achieve their wishes.
The Swimming World Championships compete in five major events: swimming, diving (high platform diving), synchronized swimming, water polo and open water, and this is the second time that Budapest has hosted the World Swimming World Championships after a gap of five years. Swimming events are held from June 18 to 25, and diving events are held from June 26 to July 3, interspersed with synchronized swimming, water polo and other events. Entering the new Olympic cycle, the personnel of each team have been adjusted, and the Chinese diving team of this World Championships has sent 9 men and 8 women to participate in the competition of all 13 events, including 6 Olympic champions, 13 after 00, 6 people participating in the World Championships for the first time, and the four Olympic double events are all new partners; The Chinese swimming team sent 22 men and 23 women with a total of 45 people, including Zhang Yufei, Wang Shun, Li Bingjie, Xu Jiayu and other famous players. The Chinese Flower Tour sent 12 women and 1 man, a total of 13 people.
Today, the Chinese swimming team embarked on the journey of the World Championships. Before setting off, the team members expressed their goals for the World Championships. The 24-year-old Zhang Yufei is currently the leader of the Chinese swimming women's team, she won 2 gold and 2 silver at the Tokyo Olympic Games, this World Championships she will play in the women's 100 meters butterfly, 200 meters butterfly two single events and women's 4X200 meters freestyle, women's 4X100 meters medley, men's 4X100 meters medley, men's and women's 4X100 meters medley three relays, before the World Championships individual event best record is only bronze Zhang Yufei will also attack the title of duojin king. However, before the game, Zhang Yufei was very low-key, and the pre-match declaration was only: "Budapest, I am here, the World Championships, look at me!" But the smile on her face revealed her current good state.
Wang Shun, who is also a gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics with Zhang Yufei, is the oldest member of the Chinese swimming team at this World Championships, which is the sixth World Championships he participated in, and his previous best in individual events was also a bronze medal. Before the game, Wang Shun shouted the slogan of "to fight for the gold medal Grand Slam", and he had won the gold medal in the men's 200-meter individual medley at the Olympic Games and the Short Pool World Championships, only one gold medal in the Long Pool World Championships. At this World Championship, Wang Shun only participated in the men's 200 mix and 400 mixed individual events.
Xu Jiayu, who won the men's 100m backstroke at the World Championships in Budapest five years ago, said: "I want to win three consecutive titles in Budapest. At the 2019 Gwangju World Championships, Xu Jiayu defended his title on the 100 backs, and this time back in Budapest, he will also launch an attack on the triple crown.
After the end of the swimming event competition, the diving event competition will begin, in the previous swimming world championships, the Chinese team won 95 gold medals, who will help the Chinese team to win the 100th gold medal is worth paying attention to. In the lineup of the Chinese diving team, there are six Olympic champions, Cao Yuan, Wang Zongyuan, Quan Hongchan, Chen Taoxi, Zhang Jiaqi and Ren Qian, of which 15-year-old Quan Hongchan and 16-year-old Chen Taoxi have attracted much attention. Quan Hongchan is the Tokyo Olympic Games women's singles 10m platform champion, Chen Yaoxi is the last World Championships women's single 10m platform champion, this World Championships, the two will work together in the single 10m platform competition, will also partner in the double 10m platform, which is also the first time that the two partnered in the international competition double event. Chen Yaoxi was the gold medalist in the women's doubles 10m platform at the Tokyo Olympics, while Quan Hongchan played in the doubles event for the first time.
When asked about the world championship goals, Quan Hongchan said: "Two champions! Earlier, after the end of the test match for the Chinese diving team, Chen Yaoxi also expressed his hope that he could participate in two events at the World Championships and win two gold medals. Now, Chen Yaoxi's wish to participate in two world championships has come true, and her wish to win two gold medals has been fulfilled, and only one of her and her partner Quan Hongchan can achieve her wish.