The women's gymnasts are changing very quickly, and Olympic champion Guan Chenchen is only 19 years old, but he has retired from school two years ago. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Chinese women's gymnastics team will basically have a big change compared to the Tokyo Olympics. Fortunately, Qiu Qiyuan and Zhou Yaqin rose to become leaders. Chinese women's gymnastics is expected to achieve better results than the Tokyo Olympics.
At the Tokyo Olympics, the six Chinese women's gymnastics players are Tang Qianjing, Lu Yufei, Zhang Jin, Ou Yushan, Fan Yilin, and Guan Chenchen. These athletes will either retire or be in a dip and may not be able to qualify for the Paris Olympics. During the Paris Olympic cycle, Chinese women's gymnastics also produced two-time world championships uneven bars champion Wei Xiaoyuan, but she also faded out of the competition due to injury.
Qiu Qiyuan and Zhou Yaqin have become the two leading figures in Chinese women's gymnastics in the Paris Olympics, both of them have the strength to challenge for individual gold medals, and they are also expected to help the Chinese women's gymnastics team hit the medals in the team competition.
Qiu Qiyuan was the biggest winner at the National Gymnastics Championships, winning the all-around and uneven bars titles, as well as the floor exercise and balance beam titles. Qiu Qiyuan took out a set of moves with a difficulty of 7.2 on the uneven bars and won the championship with a high score of 15.566 points.
This is the highest difficulty in the uneven bars of the Paris Olympic cycle, and it also gives Qiu Qiyuan enough confidence to attack the uneven bars championship of the Paris Olympics. Qiu Qiyuan's top opponent is Algeria's Nemur, who has a difficulty of 7.0 and can score more than 15.0 points.
Looking forward to the Paris Olympics, if both of them play smoothly, Qiu Qiyuan is expected to beat Nemur with a difficulty of 7.2. But consistency in gymnastics is important, and if you make a mistake, you can lose the championship. Qiu Qiyuan's balance beam has a difficulty of 7.0 and has the ability to break 15.0 points, and in March 2024, in the German DTB Cup Gymnastics Invitational Tournament, Qiu Qiyuan won the championship with 15.500 points on the balance beam. Unfortunately, at the National Championships, her balance beam fell off and she finally won the bronze medal.
Zhou Yaqin's dominant event was the balance beam, and she won the championship in the National Championships with a difficult move of 7.2 and a high score of 15.466.
Zhou Yaqin is also good at floor exercise competitions. Looking forward to the Paris Olympics, Qiu Qiyuan and Zhou Yaqin formed a double insurance on the balance beam. As long as one person plays well, he is expected to win the championship.
The balance beam is a traditional strength of Chinese women's gymnastics, with Liu Xuan, Deng Linlin and Guan Chenchen all winning Olympic titles, while Qiu Qiyuan and Zhou Yaqin will challenge for the balance beam title at the Paris Olympics.
Chinese women's gymnastics has emerged a peerless double pride, and the competitiveness of team events has also improved a lot, and the Paris Olympics will attack the medals.