Source: People's Daily Original manuscript
People's Daily Beijing, July 26 (Reporter Yang Lei) On the evening of July 26, Beijing time, a number of preliminary competitions for the swimming events of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games continued.
In the women's 200m freestyle preliminaries, China's Yang Junxuan and Li Bingjie teamed up in group 4, and yang Junxuan finished third in the group with a time of 1:56.17 and successfully advanced to the semifinals. Li Bingjie's time was 1:59.03, ranking seventh in the group and missing the semi-finals.
In the women's 200m medley preliminaries, China's Yu Yiting's time was 2 minutes 10.22 seconds, ranking eighth in the overall performance list, and successfully advanced to the semifinals.
The women's 1500m race, which is entering the Olympic Games for the first time, has attracted much attention, and in tonight's preliminary round, China's Li Bingjie and Wang Jian Jiahe played in Group 4 and Group 5 respectively. Li Bingjie, who had just participated in the 200-meter freestyle competition, obviously felt a little physically weak, and the final result was 15 minutes 59 seconds 92 seconds, and she failed to qualify for the final. Wang Jian Jiahe is in the same group as world record holder and American star Ledecky. Wang Jian Jiahe swam 15 minutes 41 seconds 49 to advance to the final with the second place in the group, which also broke the Asian record. Ledecky finished first in the group with a time of 15:35:35 and set a new Olympic record. The final will be held at 10:54 Beijing time on July 28.
![Big loss! Wang Jian Jiahe missed the medal, the final was 5 seconds slower than the preliminaries, and the swimming was still 0 gold[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)