Antwerp, Belgium, October 3, Xinhua News Agency (Reporter Liu Yang, Pan Geping) The 2023 Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium held the men's team final on the 3rd, Su Weide dropped the bar twice in the horizontal bar event, and the defending champion China finally won the silver medal with a total score of 253.794 points, 1.8 points worse than the champion Japan.
The Chinese team did not play well in the qualifying round and advanced to the final with eighth place. Lin Chao, who had just finished the Hangzhou Asian Games schedule, hurriedly saved the field and replaced the injured Shi Cong on the field to participate in five competitions except the ring. Veteran Sun Wei competed in all six competitions, three of which led the competition. Su Weide played vault, horizontal bar and floor exercise, You Hao played pommel horse, ring and parallel bars, and Liu Yang played ring.
China's Lin Chaopan competes in parallel bars on October 3. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
In the first round of vault, the Chinese team scored 43.299 points, temporarily ranking first. In the second round of parallel bars, Sun Wei, Lin Chaopan and You Hao all scored above 14.500, and You Hao scored a high score of 14.966. The Chinese team scored 44.365 points in this round, and the total score (87.664) after two rounds was 4.133 points higher than that of the second-place Swiss team.
In the third round of horizontal bar, Su Weide made a serious mistake and dropped the bar twice, scoring only 11.166 points. The Chinese team scored 39.499 points in this round, still ranking first overall, but the advantage over the second-placed British team was only 0.466 points.
On October 3, China's Su Weide dropped the bar in the horizontal bar event. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
In the fourth round of floor exercise, Su Weide overcame the psychological barrier of just making a mistake and scored a team-high score of 14.100. In this round, the Chinese team "scored" 41.933 points, falling to third, but the score was only 0.134 points less than the first-place Japanese team. In the fifth round of pommel horse, China scored 40.866 points, while Japan scored a game-high 44.432 points on parallel bars in this round. After five rounds, China is 3.700 points behind Japan.
In the final round, Liu Yang and You Hao, the champions and runners-up of the Tokyo Olympics, contributed 15.000 and 14.866 points respectively, and the Chinese team scored a game-high score of 43.832. Japan also scored a game-high 41.932 points on the final round of horizontal bar. Tokyo Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto scored 14.366 points, while Japan won with a total score of 255.594 points. The Chinese team trailed by 1.8 points and regretted to take silver. The United States finished third with 252.428 points.
On October 3, Liu Yang of the Chinese team competed after the ring event. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
Veteran You Hao said after the game: "We have no way back in the final, we have to show our best. The results of the preliminary round were not good, and I also thought a lot about it these two days. The whole team performed very well today, from the appearance of not playing in the preliminary round to today, everyone showed their true level, we went through a lot of ideological battles and experienced some changes, and we are more satisfied with this result. ”