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In the final of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Yang Jiayu ranked first with a time of 1 hour, 25 minutes and 54 seconds to win the gold medal, and it is also the world record in the world race walking event.
Then in this Paris Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation won the 11th gold medal in this Olympic Games, and it is also a double champion.
The process of Yang Jiayu's victory.
At Paris 2024, there will be a total of three online race walking events, and the women's 20km race walk is the first, a few days before the start of the race, the competition was originally scheduled to start at 13:00 local time, but because the weather forecast showed thunderstorms, the organizers decided to adjust the time to 13:30, but still brought 30 minutes to prepare.
The race finally began, starting from 6 minutes and 38 seconds, with the four men in front of them: China's Li Zicheng, North Korea's Kim Chok-hoon, Japan's Sekine Hanakan, and Belarus's Albinsky.
However, Yang Jiayu's hope for China's female revival caught up with Japan Kanagan Hanakan who ran in first place at 6 minutes and 54 seconds, and in the following 14 minutes and 38 seconds, Yang Jiayu's time was already behind Sekine's time and had a 36-second lead.
In some sections, competitors need to walk through the stone road or they will be judged to be fouled, and Yang Jiayu is walking the most likely to pass the stone road, not only maintaining the lead steadily, but in the next 25 minutes and 48 seconds, the gap between Yang Jiayu and Japan Sekine has opened up to a lead of 1 minute and 41 seconds.
Until 37 minutes and 54 seconds, Yang Jiayu's score reached 24 minutes and 14 seconds, at which time Yang Jiayu and Guan Gen had opened a gap of more than two minutes, and the Chinese player Li Zicheng, who was behind the first stop, had reached 40 minutes and 28 seconds at this time.
Yang Jiayu, who ran in the first position in front, is already in a leading state in terms of performance and speed, maybe Yang Jiayu really feels very confident in the people behind her, plus the speed under her feet may also be under her control, Yang Jiayu seems to be relieved.
At this time, there is only a Japan athlete Guan Genhuaguan and a Chinese athlete Li Zicheng in front of Yang Jiayu, and Yang Jiayu may not have any sense of disobedience to the athletes behind, because the steps under his feet have never stopped, and he still smiles at the camera from time to time.
In this way, Yang Jiayu was enough to win the gold medal he won at the World Championships, but as the pace of progress became more and more steady, he finally won the gold medal in this event with a time of 1 hour, 25 minutes and 54 seconds.
However, in the post-match interview, Yang Jiayu said: "I feel very tired, this game is still very difficult."
I still saw a smile on Yang Jiayu's face, standing on the podium, her heart was full of emotion at this moment, no matter whether what she said was true or not, wasn't she also announcing to the world that she was the champion?
Women's 20km race walk.
After Yang Jiayu won the gold medal in the race walking event, the top eight in the women's 20km race walking event won the final quota in the final stage, and the top eight also won the ranking in the final.
In this competition, the Chinese women's 20km race walk is in groups 1 and 2, while the Chinese women are Yang Jiayu, Ma Zhenxia and Li Zicheng in the second group, and the main competitors are Japan's Sekine Hanakan and Italy's Albinski.
The main competitors of the same Chinese women's 20km race walk group are Ma Zhenxia and Liu Hong, because since the 2012 London Olympics, the Chinese women's 20km race walk has always had a great advantage in this event, and since 2012, there have been three competitions, namely the 2012 London Olympics, the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in which all Chinese athletes won the championship.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, teammate Lu Xiuzhi won the first place, while Liu Hong won the second place, and the Chinese team once again launched an attack on the gold medal.
China's Yang Jiayu, Ma Zhenxia and Liu Hong both scored 1 hour 25 minutes and 54 seconds, Ma Zhenxia scored 1 hour 26 minutes 11 seconds, and Liu Hong scored 1 hour 28 minutes and 12 seconds, and the final ranking was third, fourth and fifth respectively.
The world record in the women's 20km race walk was set by China's Yang Jiayu in 2023.
Yang Jiayu was born in 1961 in Leling City, Shandong Province, China, with a height of 1.66 meters and a weight of 51 kilograms, and began to contact race walking before 2000, winning the national race walking individual championship, and also won the second place in the seven Huzhou National Championships in 1987.
However, behind Yang Jiayu, there is also a beautiful woman who is racing and walking, her name is Li Hua.
Li Hua finished eighth at the 7th National Games in 1979 and third in the women's 10,000m race walk at the national championships in 1980, and also competed in the 1989 World Championships in the Soviet Union.
But why she is called a "beauty" is because Li Hua has a slender figure and an elegant smile, and is a symbol of fashion and beauty at that time and now, so she is called a beauty.
The format of the race walking competition.
The format of the race walking competition is not like in our arena, where the winner is the first to finish first.
Race walking is a special event in track and field, it has special rules for race walking, but the mainland also has an experienced old expert in this area, his name is Zhang Zhiqiang, who is the dark horse of race walking.
Zhang Zhiqiang said: "The most important thing in the race walking event is to comply with three principles: one is that one foot must be on the ground, the second is that the leg must be straight from front to back, and the third is that there must be a walking posture."
When the signal board shows red, it means that the referee will punish the athlete for violating the principle of race walking, and the red signal board will appear on the side of the track, and the athlete needs to return to the re-event, otherwise the ranking will be cancelled.
Under this rule, whether an athlete's body movements conform to the race walking style becomes the criterion for judging whether the athlete is legal.
Therefore, on the track, regardless of gender, the sports athletes who have been punished wear "skirts" to enter the track.
Because just like many people for the color of men and women wearing skirts, if it is a man wearing a skirt, it is naturally a very strange thing, but if a woman wears a skirt into the arena, and then adds a golden medal on her body, it is undoubtedly a beautiful landscape, and after the penalty is added, a little red is added, which is very beautiful and eye-catching.
Therefore, whether this red dress is male or female, the moment when they stand on the podium is undoubtedly their moment to shine.
epilogue
Yang Jiayu stood on the track, just like we were standing in the grand event venue, smiling and hanging the gold medal on his neck with both hands, and the medal on his chest was shining with golden light, shining gold, dazzling and dazzling.
After winning the gold medal in women's race walking at the Olympic Games, Yang Jiayu said on the field: "I am really happy, thank you for sharing this joy with me."
From her joyful expression, it can be seen that Yang Jiayu will stand on the podium with her teammates, looking forward to their appearance in red dresses.
