Source: China Youth Daily
On October 23, in the men's S5 self-swimming 50m final of the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, a video of China's Guo Jincheng was online online.
Guo Jincheng's starting action was not fast, but after entering the water, the "turbocharged" acceleration allowed him to slowly distance himself from the second place. In the end, Guo Jincheng hit the wall with his head hard and broke the Asian Para Games record of 30.28 seconds set in the preliminary round of the day.
After the game, Guo Jincheng said that because he took a breath more halfway, he would have broken the world record he held.
It is understood that when Guo Jincheng was 6 years old, he lost both arms due to an accident. In the fall of 2012, 12-year-old Guo Jincheng was selected by the Hebei Provincial Para Swimming Team and began his sports career. At the 2023 Para Swimming World Championships, Guo Jincheng won the gold medals in the S5 class 50m men's freestyle and 200m men's medley, and won the gold medal in the 4×50m men's and women's medley relay with his teammates, breaking three world records in one fell swoop.
Source: Hebei Daily
In the comment area, many netizens cheered for him!
When Guo Jincheng "hit" his head to the end, it made many netizens distressed.
This morning, at the press conference on the theme of the events and venue operation of the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, a reporter asked some disabled swimmers about hitting the pool wall with their heads when they reached the finish line, Yang Jinkui, director of the China Disabled Sports Management Center and deputy secretary-general of the Chinese delegation, responded: "Athletes hit the wall with their heads, can you say it doesn't hurt?" But that's a lot of courage. One of the Paralympic values is 'courage'. ”
Regarding this issue, there have also been previous responses from athletes.
At the Tokyo 2021 Paralympic Games, Chinese swimmer Zheng Tao won four gold medals and broke the world record four times. Another detail that impressed the world audience was his final sprint, which hit the wall with his head, and very hard.
Zheng Tao said: There is no other way to touch the wall, you touch the wall with your shoulder is a foul, we have to touch the side with our head. The first time I had no experience, I smashed it directly and hit the stone on the side, and at that time my head was bleeding and I got up. It's better to compare the back, learn to control this intensity.
But at the Olympics, I couldn't control it, and I won in a few tenths of a second when I hit my head, so I gritted my teeth and bumped it up. It's okay to hurt a little, I'm used to it.
Zhang Honghu, coach of the Chinese Paralympic swimming team, previously said in an interview with China Youth Daily that athletes are a simple group, and paralympic athletes are even more so, not bitter, not tired, because they have experienced something a hundred times more difficult than training and injuries, but if they can still rely on their own strength to shine, they will do their best to seize the first line of opportunities, and sports have become their moral support.
Hats off for this perseverance and courage!