In the early morning of June 25, Beijing time, the Budapest Swimming World Championships ushered in the closing match of the eighth competition day - the men's and women's 4×100 meters freestyle relay final. In this game, the Chinese team did not send the strongest lineup as expected, and finally finished eighth in 3 minutes 26.92 seconds, and Australia broke the world record to win the championship.
In the preliminary round, the four players of the Chinese team were Hong Jinquan, Wang Changhao, Lau Lihui and Ai Yanhan, and the preliminary result was 3 minutes 27.20 seconds, ranking fifth in the group, and the overall result was eighth, and the thrilling advance to the final. You know, this is not the strongest lineup of the Chinese team, the men's team's Pan Zhanle, the women's team's Yang Junxuan and Tang Muhan, are all leaders in the short-distance freestyle. However, what is surprising is that the United States replaced all the personnel in the preliminary round, and Canada also replaced, only the Chinese team used the four people in the preliminary round, Pan Zhanle, Yang Junxuan, and Tang Muhan were all abandoned, and the Chinese team was suspected of strategic abandonment.
The first baton, Hong Jinquan, when at 50 meters, everyone did not have much difference, but at 100 meters, the Chinese team was the last to hand over the baton, and the American team was the first. The second stick Wang Changhao, the gap was further widened, behind the penultimate close to a position. The third stick, Lau Lihui, slightly narrowed the gap with the penultimate number one, but still the last bat. Although the last bat, Ai Yanhan struggled to catch up, but failed to improve the ranking. In the end, Australia broke the world record in 3:19.38, Canada won the silver medal in 3:20.61, the United States team won the bronze medal in 3:21.09, and the Chinese team finished eighth in 3:26.92.
Although the chinese team's ranking is not ideal, the four players have improved to varying degrees compared with the preliminaries, which is also gratifying. But why did not choose the stronger Pan Zhanle, Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, perhaps the coaching team has its own considerations. It is worth mentioning that Ai Yanhan has participated in almost all relay competitions, which can be called a relay professional household, and she is really hard!
On this match day, the Chinese team won a gold and a bronze. The gold medal is a synchronized swimming collective free choice, and Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi twin sisters Hua were crowned four crowns. The bronze medal is Zhang Yufei's 50-meter butterfly, which is Zhang Yufei's third individual bronze medal at this World Championships, and he received the podium in the 50, 100 and 200 meters butterfly, which is a very rare achievement.
In the latest gold medal list, the United States 15 gold, 8 silver and 14 bronze led the way with an absolute advantage. Australia ushered in the outbreak, got 6 gold, 8 silver and 1 bronze to surpass China to the second, and the Chinese team ranked third with 5 gold and 5 bronze. Italy, Japan, Canada, France, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine ranked four to ten.