On the night of June 19, Beijing time, the first gold medal of the Chinese delegation at the 2022 FINA Swimming World Championships was born on the banks of the Danube River. In the final of the flower tour doubles technical self-selected event in the outdoor pool of the Alfred Hayosh National Natatorium in Budapest, the 25-year-old twin sisters From Guangdong, Hua Wang Liu yi and Wang Qianyi, won the championship with an absolute advantage of 93.7536 points, which was the first time that the Chinese flower tour team won the World Championship in the Olympic project, creating history.
In fact, before the expedition to Budapest, the Chinese delegation had a premonition that the first gold would be won by the flower tour team. According to the schedule, Huayou started one day ahead of competitive swimming (June 17 double technical self-selection preliminaries), and the first final day of the swimming competition (June 18) The Chinese swimming team did not have a gold point, so it is expected that in the final of the double technical self-selection project on the evening of June 19, the new sisters of the huayou team, Hua Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi, are likely to usher in a historic breakthrough and win the first gold for the Chinese delegation in this project.
Due to well-known reasons, Russia, the strongest country in the flower tour, missed the World Championships, and the Chinese flower tour team ushered in the best opportunity to win multiple gold medals, depending on whether they can grasp it and then write the history of China's flower tour. In the history of the previous World Championships, the Chinese team once won the championship of the collective free combination event (non-Austrian event) at the 2017 World Championships, also in the city of Budapest, when the Russian team gave up the competition, and at that time, the champion lineup included Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi.
The historical best result of the Chinese synchronized swimming double event at the World Championships was a silver medal, and the earliest twin sisters, Jiang Wenwen/Jiang Tingting, and later Huang Xuechen/Sun Wenyan, have all achieved it, and this time, Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi have achieved feats that their predecessors have not completed. This time, the sisters followed the two sets of programs of "Game" and "Green Snake", which won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games by the Chinese team Snow Goose Combination (Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan), and modified and increased the difficulty according to their own characteristics. The two men's results in the preliminary round on the 17th were 92.6378, ranking first among the 32 pairs of participants, 0.7813 points ahead of the second-place Ukrainian sisters.
In the final on the evening of the 19th, Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi continued to work hard, continued their good state and played, scoring 93.7536 points, nearly 2 points higher than the Ukrainian combination that won the second place, and won the championship with absolute advantage. Regardless of whether the Russian team participated or not, the Guangdong sister flower seized the opportunity to create the history of the Chinese flower tour team, winning the gold medal in the double event for the Chinese team for the first time, which is success.
Sister Wang Liuyi said after the game: "From the pre-game preparation to today we completed this set of actions, I feel quite satisfied. The goal of this competition is to be good at yourself. Sister Wang Qianyi said: "From the pre-game adaptation, we quickly got into the state and felt very familiar here. Hopefully, our performance will make a good start for the Chinese team. Wang Jiuli, the coach of the Chinese team, is very satisfied with the performance of the sisters and believes that the quality of the two synchronized and the actions that must be done is good.
The Chinese Synchronized Swimming Team will send a total of 13 people to participate in the competition of 6 sports in doubles, mixed doubles, collective technical self-selection and free selection, including Feng Yu, Xiao Yanning, Wang Qianyi, three famous players who competed in the Tokyo Olympic Games and won the runner-up, as well as a number of young athletes. In both the two-person and collective events, the mature competitions that have been used at the Tokyo Olympics will still be used, but some modifications and technological innovations will be made.
Now, Wang Liuyi / Wang Qianyi has ushered in a good start for the team, and it can be expected that the Chinese Flower Tour team will continue to win gold medals for the delegation in the future competitions.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin