On September 22, in the women's 200m medley final of the 14th National Games Swimming Competition, Shanghai swimmer Chen Xinyi won the third place with a time of 2:12.18, adding another bronze medal to the Shanghai Swimming Team at the National Games. Zhejiang team Yu Yiting and Ye Shiwen won the first and second places respectively.
"I'm not very happy with this result, and when I return to the National Games, I feel that I am older and the athletes around me are much younger than myself." Chen Xinyi sighed after the game. Among the 8 contestants who participated in the women's 200m medley final, except for Ye Shiwen, who was born in 1996, only Chen Xinyi was still a "post-90s", and the rest of the players were already "post-00s". Chen Xinyi admits that the biggest motivation for persistence is to love swimming, and the coach of the Shanghai swimming team, Zhang Zhitao, has carefully guided her. "Coach Zhang Zhitao trains very seriously, he loves swimming like me and is willing to work hard with me."
After the game, Chen Xinyi, who was not satisfied with her results, cried and said to Zhang Zhitao: "I didn't swim well today, and I feel very sorry for you." Zhang Zhitao replied: "No matter where you swim, we have tried our best, and we must be ashamed." ”
Coaches Chen Xinyi and Zhang Zhitao
In September 2018, Chen Xinyi came to the coaching team of Zhang Zhitao of the Shanghai swimming team for training. At the beginning, Chen Xinyi did not adapt to and believe in the training methods and methods of the young coach Zhang Zhitao, and the two masters and apprentices slowly ran into each other in training. Two years later, on January 10, 2020, at the 2020 National Spring Swimming Championships held in Bengbu, Anhui Province, Chen Xinyi won the women's 200m individual medley championship in 2 minutes 13.14 seconds.
Shanghai swimming team Zhang Zhitao coach group group group photo
Zhang Zhitao said that after the National Swimming Championships in April 2020, Chen Xinyi's training began to get better and better, until April this year, Chen Xinyi's training cooperation reached the best, reflecting a strong training execution, and made full preparations in the last three months before the National Games.
One night during the preparation period, Zhang Zhitao took Chen Xinyi to practice at the Oriental Green Boat Swimming Training Base until more than 5 p.m., which was already a meal. However, Chen Xinyi did not complete the training session very well, and did not meet the requirements of Zhang Zhitao's training plan at all. Chen Xinyi was very sad and cried out in the pool. "Don't practice, let's eat!" Zhang Zhitao said. But what Zhang Zhitao did not expect was that Chen Xinyi dried her tears and said: "Revisit! Zhang Zhitao's heart was a little unbearable, and his eye sockets were a little moist, so the pair of masters and apprentices completed 4 400-meter medley training, and these 4 special trainings, Chen Xinyi were all completed with high quality, and fully achieved the training goal of the day. When the two masters and apprentices looked at the time, it was already more than 6 o'clock in the evening.
Chen Xinyi took a group photo with his teammates in the same group
In the subsequent training, Chen Xinyi repeatedly asked for the initiative to practice, if the day's training goal can not be completed, do not go to the canteen to eat, until the completion of the training goal is not willing to enter the canteen. Zhang Zhitao was deeply touched by Chen Xinyi's spirit of hard training, and when he held the training group meeting, he specially praised Chen Xinyi, "Her 'I want to practice' hard training spirit is a learning example for our whole group!" ”