From August 26 to 27, Beijing time, the 2023 Budapest World Championships in Athletics will enter the eighth (penultimate competition) day. Since the Chinese team barely competed for the gold medal on the last day, the women's shot put final on match 8 will be the final match for the Chinese team at this World Championships. So far, the Chinese team has only ranked first in the medal table with one bronze medal, while the Japanese team won the first gold medal in Asia at the World Championships because of Kitaguchi's women's javelin throw, thus ranking joint 13th in the medal table. The focus of the Chinese delegation is now on Gong Lijiao, and you can imagine how much pressure she has.
At 13 o'clock on August 26, Beijing time, the women's marathon of the World Championships will start, and the Chinese team Zhang Deshun and Li Zhixuan will compete, wishing the two runners good results. At 16:25 Beijing time on August 26, the women's shot put qualification begins, Gong Lijiao, Song Jiayuan, Zhang Linru will play, and the standard line for directly advancing to the final is 19 meters 10, I believe that Gong Lijiao and Song Jiayuan can do it in normal play.
The 34-year-old Gong Lijiao is the pillar and thick leg of the Chinese track and field team, and the Olympic gold, silver, bronze and iron medals are all on hand - Tokyo Olympics 20.58m PB gold, London Olympics 20.22m silver medal, 20.20m 20 Beijing Olympics bronze medal, 2016 Rio Olympics 19.39m finally finished fourth.
This is Gong Lijiao's ninth time competing in the World Championships, winning 2 golds, 2 silvers and 3 bronzes in the first eight times, and is the champion of the 2017 World Championships in London and the 2019 World Championships in Doha. Last year, Gong Lijiao won the silver medal at the World Championships in Eugene with 20.39 meters, and Chase Elli of the United States won with 20.49 meters. Before the race, Gong Lijiao ranked third in the season with a time of 20.06 meters, and McGee Ewen of the United States ranked first in the season with 20.45 meters. Gong Lijiao's main threat is McGee Evan, Chase Ellie and others from the United States.
The women's shot put final will start at 02:15 am on the 27th, and CCTV-5 will be live.
There is still the men's pole vault final tomorrow morning, and it will be interesting to see whether Duplantis can break his own world record of 6.22 meters. In addition, tomorrow morning there will be the men's 800m, women's 5000m, and men's and women's 4X100m relay finals.