On July 27, Beijing time, Xu Jiayu finally won the fifth place in the men's 100m backstroke final of the Swimming Event at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which means that the Chinese swimming men's team will basically have no championship in this competition.
Xu Jiayu is the only gold rushing hope of the Chinese swimming men's team in this competition, he is the champion of the 2nd World Championships, and he is worthy of being a top-notch existence. However, in the past 1 year, Xu Jiayu's visible decline with the naked eye, the performance seems to no longer have the impact of the Olympic gold medal, and this competition also had a stomach ulcer attack, which affected his own performance.
However, Xu Jiayu has performed steadily from the preliminaries and semi-finals, and successfully entered the final, and if he wants to attack the championship, Xu Jiayu must defeat the powerful defending champion Murphy, the Russian star Krosnikov and the Australian star Larkin. Both the world record and the Olympic record in this event were Murphy's 51.85 seconds set at the last Rio Olympics.
In the final, Xu Jiayu was in the 7th lane, while Larkin, Murphy and Krosnikov were in the 3rd, 4th and 5th lanes respectively. The race is on! Xu Jiayu was not bad in the water, the 5th completed the turn, the last 50 meters of sprint, Xu Jiayu was powerless to return to the sky, and finally swam out of 52.51 seconds, and the champion was won by the Russian player Leilov, the result was 51.98 seconds! Xu Jiayu finished fifth.
In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Xu Jiayu won the runner-up in the 100-meter backstroke, and he won the competition, which means that the only gold rush point for the Men's Team of the Chinese Swimming Team failed, and the high probability or basically will definitely end with 0 gold. In the "post-Sun Yang era", the Chinese swimming men's team has a long way to go.
Xu Jiayu Archives
Date of birth: August 19, 1995
Birthplace: Wenzhou, Zhejiang
Results: Rio Olympics men's 100m backstroke runner-up, 2017 World Championships men's 100m backstroke champion, 2019 World Championships men's 100m backstroke champion, Tokyo Olympics men's 100m backstroke 5th.