Original title: Swimmers in Zhejiang Province won 18 gold medals in the Olympic trials, accounting for half of the country (citation)
Paris Olympic Pool to Watch the Zhejiang Army's "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" (Theme)
Qianjiang Evening News reporter Zhao Lei/text Yao Yingkang/photo
Pan Zhanle
In last year's National Swimming Championships, the Zhejiang team won 18 gold medals in 41 events, and in this year's championships, Zhejiang still won 18 gold medals in 35 events, accounting for half of the total number of gold medals.
On the evening of April 27, the nine-day National Swimming Championships came to an end at the Shenzhen Universiade Center. In this blockbuster event that comprehensively benchmarks the Paris Olympics and competes for Olympic tickets, the Zhejiang swimming team composed of 74 athletes is not far behind, striving to be the first, and devoting themselves to the competition for all the competitions in this competition, and the "Zhejiang element" also runs through almost the whole event-
On the official promotional poster before the start of the competition, 12 star athletes, 6 of whom are from Zhejiang; on the first day of the competition, Wang Shun, an Olympic champion from Zhejiang, took an oath at the opening ceremony on behalf of all athletes; Ye Shiwen, Xu Jiayu and other famous players appeared on the field, cheers and screams resounded throughout the audience; Zhejiang team showed a "group advantage" in a number of competitions, such as the women's 200-meter individual medley final almost became a special event in Zhejiang, 5 of the 8 players who reached the final were from the Zhejiang team, and the final champion, The runners-up were won by Zhejiang's Yu Yiting and Zheng Huiyu respectively, and with the victory in the men's 4×100m medley relay on the last day of competition, Pan Zhanle became the "seven champions" of this event.
It is said that Chinese swimming looks at Zhejiang, and the Zhejiang swimming army has also confirmed the truth of this sentence with practical actions: 16 people have reached the Olympic A standard in this event. At the Paris Olympic Swimming Stadium, you are expected to see Wang Shun, Ye Shiwen, Xu Jiayu, Pan Zhanle, Yu Yiting, Fei Liwei, Wu Qingfeng, Liu Yaxin, a total of 8 Zhejiang athletes chopping the waves.
unite
"If there is one key word to sum up the current Zhejiang swimming team, it is 'unity'. The whole team twisted into a rope and did their best to dedicate themselves towards the same goal of 'conquering Paris and winning glory for the country'. Wang Wei, director of the Swimming Department of Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College (Provincial Swimming Sports Management Center), said. In his opinion, the spirit of unity and cooperation has been vividly exerted in the whole team in Zhejiang.
Wang Wei revealed that in daily training, the management team will solve the various demands of the coaching team and athletes as soon as possible. In addition to the healthy competition between the players, the coaches also learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses to form a team force, completely breaking the problem that the players trained by a single coach in the past only have "one trick fresh". Wang Shun, Yu Yiting and other Zhejiang medley stars are also the reason for this.
In addition to the main event of the 200-meter medley, he also reported the 200-meter freestyle and 100-meter backstroke.
Before the game, Wang Shun said that the purpose of signing up for the backstroke is not only to do segmented intensive training for the main event medley, but also to swim the backstroke for Xu Jiayu in the preliminaries in the Olympic medley relay competition, so that the "soft-shelled turtle" can impact the final with abundant physical fitness.
In this way, Olympic champion Wang Shun was willing to be a green leaf and became Xu Jiayu's "advance team" in the men's 4×100m medley and men's and women's 4×100m medley preliminaries, so that the "soft-shelled turtle" was full of firepower in the two relay finals, and the backstroke strokes reached 52.69 seconds and 52.74 seconds respectively, and finally helped the team win the championship without suspense.
Hold
When the 11-year-old girl Yu Zidi has stood on the podium of the 400-meter medley runner-up, there are still some Zhejiang celebrities who are "Ben San" at the age of "Ben San", and they are still exuding a dazzling brilliance that is difficult for future generations to achieve.
In addition to playing well in the relay competition, Xu Jiayu also has the demeanor of a king in the individual event. In the men's 100m backstroke, "soft-shelled turtle" won the championship in 52.39 seconds, which is the world's No. 1 result so far this year.
Affected by her physical condition, Ye Shiwen, who performed unsatisfactory in the women's medley 400m, still chose to persist in fighting, and in the final of the women's 200m breaststroke, she won the championship in 2:22.55, becoming the only player in the audience to break through the Olympic A standard. This result is even more than one second faster than the 2:23.84 she won at the Asian Games last year.
For Wang Shun, who has won Olympic and Asian Games titles in Tokyo and Hangzhou with impressive results, age is just a number, and results are king. In the men's 200-meter medley in this championship, "Brother Shun" rode the dust, and the final result was fixed at 1:55.35. That time surpassed the 1:55.91 that Great Britain's Duncan Scott won at the British Swimming Olympic Trials earlier this month, and is ranked No. 1 in the world so far this year.
With 1:55.35, Wang Shun ranked third on the personal performance list, second only to his 1:54.62 at last year's Asian Games and 1:55.00 when he won the Tokyo Olympics. The 30-year-old Wang Shun's hegemony in the 200-meter medley event is still unmatched.
Who said that Lent is a veteran, and the good results are still unstoppable. For them, the harvest and perception of the competition are often more pure. As Wang Shun said after winning the championship: "I hope that when I am still in the pool, I can set an example for more young players." We can show everyone that Chinese swimmers can still compete for gold and silver in the Olympic Games when they are over 30 years old!"
breakthrough
A generation will eventually grow old, but there will always be people who are young. The spring breeze is undoubtedly a vivid portrayal of Pan Zhanle and other new forces in Zhejiang's swimming world.
Pan Zhanle, who landed in Shenzhen as the new world champion, undoubtedly became the most powerful and unique person in the arena: on the first day of the competition, 2 golds were in hand, and on the closing day, 7 golds and 1 silver were in the account.
In this championship, the 20-year-old Wenzhou boy won four freestyle individual championships from 50 meters to 400 meters, plus three relay gold medals. Even if it was due to obedience to the arrangement, the men's and women's 4×100-meter medley relay failed to enter the "national brand" team, he still carried the Zhejiang-Guangdong United team without admitting defeat.
In the women's 50-meter freestyle final, Zhejiang's Wu Qingfeng won the championship with a personal best of 24.22 seconds, beating Olympic champion Zhang Yufei to win the championship and winning his first gold medal in the individual event of this event.
Three years ago in Tokyo, Wu Qingfeng and Zhang Yufei joined hands in the Olympic women's 50-meter freestyle. This year's Olympic Games in Paris, we will once again see the two competing for their country.
In the men's 1500m freestyle final, Zhejiang player Fei Liwei won the championship with a time of 14:49.30, and at the same time reached the Olympic A standard of 15:00.99. In fact, Fei Liwei has already reached the Olympic A standard in this event at the World Championships in Doha. In this championship, Fei Liwei is not only expected to win two Olympic tickets for the men's 800-meter freestyle and 1500-meter freestyle, but also break through the Olympic A standard of the four 00-meter, 800-meter and 1500-meter freestyle events.
"The level of competition in China is gradually improving compared to last year, which I think is a good thing. Only with increasingly fierce competition can we drive continuous improvement. After winning the championship, Fei Liwei was "sober in the world". In his opinion, the ranking of the competition is not important, the important thing is to find problems and break through and solve them to make yourself better, "Only in this way can we achieve good results in the Olympic Games." ”
It is understood that after the end of this championship, the players who were successfully selected for the national team will go to Shanghai for closed training to make a final effort to prepare for the Paris Olympic Games. We expect that the eight athletes from Zhejiang will appear on the Chinese swimming team's squad for Paris, and show their talents in the Olympic arena.
Source: Qianjiang Evening News