On January 3, it was reported that the 2024 World Aquatics Championships will be held in Doha, Qatar from February 2 to 18. This morning, the Chinese Swimming Association officially announced the list of participating athletes, including 21 people, including 13 women and 8 men. This is a lineup that combines the old and the new, Zhang Yufei, Wang Shun, Qin Haiyang, Ye Shiwen, Yan Zibei, Xu Jiayu and other famous players are absent.
Zhang Yufei
Among the 21 people, there is only one Olympic champion, Li Bingjie, in addition to Pan Zhanle, Yu Yiting, Tang Qianting and other powerful players.
The specific list is as follows:
Female athletes: Ma Yonghui, Mao Yihan, Ai Yanhan, Lv Yue, Sun Mingxia, Li Bingjie, Yang Chang, Yang Peiqi, Yu Yiting, Chen Xin, Chen Jie, Tang Qianting, Gong Zhenqi;
Male athletes: Wang Haoyu, Wang Xizhe, Zhang Zhanshuo, Ji Xinjie, Fei Liwei, Xu Yifan, Dong Zhihao, Pan Zhanle.
Wang Shun
Wang Shun and many other high-profile athletes did not participate in the World Championships in Doha, mainly because they were focused on preparing for the Paris Olympics, which will open in July, and they chose their own way to plan their winter training.
After the National Swimming Championships in mid-December last year, CCTV revealed that veterans such as Wang Shun and Yan Zibei will not participate in the World Championships in Doha, but choose to make winter training reserves in China, and their ultimate goal is the Paris Olympics.
In addition, the most anticipated person on the list of the World Championships in Doha is 16-year-old Zhang Zhanshuo. He was hailed as "Sun Yang's successor".
Zhang Zhanshuo was born on May 14, 2007 in Shandong, and has outstanding physical conditions. At last year's World Youth Swimming Championships, he won 2 silvers and 3 bronzes, and also won the Best Breakthrough Award of the Games. At the National Swimming Championships at the end of the year, he won the gold medal in the men's 400m freestyle with a time of 3:45.11, more than 3 seconds faster than the A standard at the World Championships in Doha. This result is also the top four best results in the national history of the project, second only to the predecessors Sun Yang, Zhang Lin and Hao Yun.
It can be said that Zhang Zhanshuo's future is limitless. Teammate Pan Zhanle lamented that Zhang Zhanshuo has improved too fast, and is expected to make up for the shortcomings of the current Chinese men's middle and long distance.
In addition, in the open water swimming event of the Doha World Swimming Championships, the Chinese team sent four people, the female athletes are Mao Yihan and Xin Xin, and the male athletes are Liu Peixin and Zhang Jinhou. Xin Xin won the World Championships in 2019.