BUDAPEST, June 23 (Xinhua) -- In the 2022 Budapest Swimming World Championships on the 23rd, Chinese twin sisters Wang Liuyi / Wang Qianyi won the championship in the synchronized swimming double free selection competition, winning their third gold at the World Championships. Cheng Yujie, a youngster under the age of 17, finished fifth in the women's 100m freestyle.
On June 23, Wang Liuyi/Wang Qianyi hugged after the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
In this competition, Wang Liuyi/Wang Qianyi first won the gold medal in the double technical self-selection project, and then won the championship in the collective technical self-selection project with his teammates, making a historic breakthrough in the project for the Chinese team. In the double free selection final on the 23rd, the two defeated the other two powerful twin combinations and won the championship with 95.5667 points. The Ukrainian Aleksheva sisters won silver, and the Austrian Alexandri sisters won the third place.
On June 23, Wang Liuyi/Wang Qianyi was in the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
In the women's 100m freestyle final, Australia's 18-year-old O'Callahan won in 52.67 seconds, Sweden's Sjöström won the silver medal and American Husk won the third place.
Chinese teenager Cheng Yujie finished fifth with 53.58 seconds. Cheng Yujie, who has previously participated in a number of relay and individual competitions, said after the game: "This result and ranking are the result of normal play. These days compared to down, including the relay, it feels that although people are getting more and more tired, but the competitive state is getting better and better. ”
On June 23, Cheng Yujie was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Meng Dingbo
On June 23, Cheng Yujie was after the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ying
In the women's 200m breaststroke final, Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Lily King of the United States won the championship in 2:22.41, while Australia's Straucher and the United States Kate Douglas won silver and bronze medals respectively.
In the men's 200m backstroke final, American Ryan Murphy won another gold in 1:54.52. The bronze medalist of the event at the Tokyo Olympics, The Greenbank of The United Kingdom was runner-up, and casas of the United States was in third place.
In the men's 200m breaststroke final, Tokyo Olympic champion and Australian Athlete Staboti defended his supremacy in 2:07.07, while Japan's Float Yu and Sweden's Persson tied for second place.
In the men's 4x200m freestyle relay final, the Chinese team sent out the "youth squad": 19-year-old Hong Jinquan, 21-year-old Zhang Ziyang, 18-year-old Chen Jun'er and 17-year-old Pan Zhanle. Compared with the world's strongest teams, the Strength of the Chinese team has a significant gap, and finally ended the game in eighth place, with a performance of 7 minutes 10 seconds and 93 seconds, which is more than 10 seconds slower than the champion United States team's 7 minutes 00 seconds and 24 seconds. Australia and Great Britain finished second and third respectively.
On June 23, Chinese players entered before the men's 4x200m freestyle relay. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Meng Dingbo
On June 23, Hong Jinquan, the first baseman of the Chinese team, was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ying
In addition, in the semi-finals of the women's 50m butterfly, Zhang Yufei, who had previously won two bronze medals in the 100m butterfly and 200m butterfly, advanced to the final in fifth place; In the semi-finals of the women's 200m backstroke, 19-year-old Peng Xuwei also advanced to the final with a fifth place finish.
Editors: Zhang Yueshan, Huang Xuguo, Wang Qinou