Even after the Tokyo Olympics in August, the athletics field of the Shaanxi National Games in September was still a climax. Compared with the 3 competition days of the National Athletics Championships and the 4 competition days of the National Athletics Championships, the National Games athletics have as many as 7 competition days, which not only allows the part-time athletes to have a relatively abundant rest time, but also presents the highest level of national athletics events in China.
With the rise in the popularity of domestic athletics, the increasing attention of provincial and municipal delegations, the overall thickness of Chinese athletics and the improvement of broadcast technology, coupled with the more ornamental men's 4X200-meter relay, the mixed 4X400-meter relay between men and women, etc., the athletics competition has become more and more "good-looking". The future of Chinese athletics, from the perspective of the National Games, has reason to be "better".
There are surprises: the results of the competition are breakthrough
Since the beginning of this year, domestic athletics events have slowly moved on the right track, and concession competitions and invitational competitions in various regions have gradually been launched. In June this year, the National Athletics Championships and Championships were held in Shangyu, Zhejiang and Chongqing respectively, which not only gave the women's 800m Wang Chunyu and other athletes more opportunities to achieve the Olympic standard, but also selected participants to participate in the athletics events of the National Games. After the first half of the training and participation, the status of most of the participants was slowly adjusted to the highest peak before the National Games.
The Chinese athletics events at the Tokyo Olympics performed well in throwing, jumping, race walking and other sports, competing for gold and silver and bronze. After most Of the Chinese Olympic track and field athletes returned to China, although they experienced isolation and the training was not very systematic, they did not stop and put themselves into the final training preparations for the National Games. Olympic gold medalists Gong Lijiao and Liu Shiying continued to "smile proudly" at the National Games.
In the athletics field of this National Games, there have indeed been some good results. In the highly watched men's 100m final, Su Bingtian broke the National Games record in 9.95 seconds and reached the 10th second mark in the official race. He became the 14th Men's 100m Champion since the inaugural National Games in 1959.
In the preliminary round of the men's 4X200m relay, Fujian broke the Asian record; the top 5 results in the final all broke the Asian record created by the preliminary round.
There are a large number of players who create PB (individual best) at the National Games. The top 5 in the women's 400m hurdles final all created PB, and the top 3 in the women's 400m were all refreshed with PB. In the men's area, the top three in the shot put final all scored individual PBs, with results of 20.40 meters, 20.35 meters and 19.58 meters respectively. The men's chain ball champion and runner-up each "spelled" out PB in the competition. Dobje, who won two gold medals, brought silver medalist Zong Qinghua to create a personal PB in the men's 5000m final.
Among the top 3 runners, the men's triple jump, long jump, pole vault, 50 km race walk, 3000 m steeplechase, 400 m, 800 m have all created PB, while the women's 100 m hurdles, 800 m, 1500 m, 10000 m, high jump, discus, triple jump also have PB.
Athletics is a basic event and a gold medalist. From the perspective of participating delegations, many delegations have formed numerical advantages in some projects, thus forming comparative advantages. Gong Lijiao won the National Games Shot Put Championship and the Women's Throw team championship. The women's throwing team consists of four items: shot put, chain ball, discus and javelin, which shows the overall advantage of the Hebei team in the women's throwing event. In fact, zhang Linru, the bronze player in women's shot put, is also from Hebei.
The Sichuan team relies on the 400-meter "one move fresh, eat all over the sky". The Sichuan team won four gold medals in the men's 400m individual, men's 4X400m relay, women's 400m individual, mixed 4x400m relay and silver medals in the women's 4X400m relay.
Of the top 5 players in the men's 100m final, 3 are from Guangdong. Guangdong also finished in the top 3 of the women's triple jump. Zhejiang monopolized the platform players in the women's pole vault.
The Yunnan team has excellent performances in middle and long-distance running and race walking events. In the 10,000 meters and marathon events, Yunnan has the highest number of men's and women's runners. Zhang Deshun won the women's championship in both events. For the men's team, the Yunnan team won the 20 km race walk individual and team championships.
Vertically, some delegations maintained the advantages of certain projects. Shandong has always had an advantage in the middle and long distance running, xu Pengcheng won the gold medal in the men's 3000 meters steeplechase, allowing the Shandong delegation to continue the tradition of having a gold medal in the middle and long-distance running event in every National Games since the Eighth National Games in 1997.
There is potential: young players take the lead
The National Games athletics competition is not only a stage for veterans to perform, but also an opportunity for rookies to appear on stage. At this National Games, many "post-00s" newborn calves were not afraid of tigers and came out.
The top three women's long jumpers are all "post-00s" youngsters. The winner is Gong Luying from Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, born in 2000, who has won the long jump championships in the Asian Junior Championships in Athletics and the World Junior Championships. Tan Mengyi, who is 2 years younger than Gong Luying, has the same results as Gong Luying, which is 6.46 meters, but the second best result is lower than Gong Luying. The bronze medalist Hua Shihui was born in 2003 and she hit the PB with 6.30 meters.
The men's marathon winner is Renqing Dongzhibu from Qinghai, born in 2000. Among a group of experienced veterans, he fought all the way to win his first National Games gold medal.
The men's high jump champion goes to Jiangsu's Wang Zhen, born in 2001. Another Jiangsu player, Wang Qi, born in 2001, won the men's chain ball competition with a PB of 73.47 meters.
The champions and runners-up in the women's 400m hurdles were "Post-00s", namely Mo Jiadi, born in 2000, and Lu Changwei, born in 2001. Coincidentally, the gold and bronze medalists in the men's 400m hurdles were Xie Zhiyu, born in 2000, and Ye An'an, born in 2004.
The men's 110-meter hurdles is a relatively familiar and concerned sport for The Chinese people. Ning Xiaohan, who won the silver medal after Xie Wenjun, and Sun Zhenjiang, who won the bronze medal, were only 21 and 22 years old, respectively, and both set their own PB in 13.45 seconds and 13.51 seconds.
The silver medalist in the men's 3000m steeplechase was Tibet's Tashi Tsering, born in 2002, who managed to break the PB with a time of 8:49.61.
There was a takeaway: Shanghai performed with surprises
At the 8th National Games since 1993, the Shanghai team monopolized the gold medal in the men's 110m hurdles event. Chen Yanhao, Liu Xiang and Xie Wenjun passed on the torch and won 2, 3 and 3 gold medals in the 110-meter hurdles at the National Games respectively.
At the Shaanxi National Games, in addition to Xie Wenjun's champion, several Shanghai athletics players were impressive.
The 19-year-old Lu Jiawen won the women's high jump championship with a time of 1.92 meters. The results are eye-catching and the potential is unlimited, because this result is the best result in China since 2014. Lu Jiawen is also the first "post-00s" to win the National Games athletics championship.
The 24-year-old Xu Jiajie's first trip to the national transport was perfect. He won the men's javelin final with a PB score of 84.54 meters. This result was placed in the Olympic Games and could be ranked 6th. Another thrower, Song Jiayuan, threw pB in the women's shot put, with a 19.76m 76 result of only 12 cm less than champion Gong Lijiao, but she was younger.
In the women's 3000m steeplechase, Xu Shuangshuang fought continuously after participating in the Olympic Games and won the silver medal. Li Zhixuan, who also competed in the Tokyo Olympics, was stepped on in the women's marathon and won the silver medal in just 3 seconds.
Retired Shanghai coach Li Guoqiang and Gansu Zhang Xinyan won the women's 5,000 meters and 3,000 meters steeplechase respectively. Zhang Xinyan, Wang Chunyu, Ge Manqi and others became the female athletes who won 2 individual track and field gold medals at the National Games.
Shanghai has a fine tradition of developing athletics, and many world-class track and field athletes have emerged. When Zhu Jianhua was in high school at Datong Middle School, he broke the Asian record for the men's high jump. He also broke the world record three times in less than 12 months between 1983 and 1984. Zhu Jianhua was also the first medalist in the athletics events of China's first Athletics World Championships (1983) and the Olympic Games (1984).
Liu Xiang is the pride of Shanghai Athletics. He won the men's 110m Hurdles Olympic Games, World Championships, Diamond League races, Asian Games, Asian Championships, National Games and other events, and also broke the world record with 12.91 seconds and 12.88 seconds. Shanghai has also hosted the Diamond League for many years, which is a rare opportunity for domestic track and field players to compete at home with foreign masters.
In the long run, Shanghai also needs to continue to popularize athletics, which is known as the "mother of sports", and at the same time create star players such as Zhu Jianhua and Liu Xiang at the competitive level.
About the Author:
Chen Guoqiang, male, is an associate professor at Shanghai University of Sport, a master supervisor, and a doctor of journalism and communication.
Visiting Scholar, School of Public Health, Indiana University,USA (2013-2014)
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