On the evening of October 20, the three-day 2024 FINA Short Course World Cup Shanghai Station ended at the Oriental Sports Center. In the final day of the competition, China's Tang Qianting broke the Asian record again in the women's 50m breaststroke final, showing excellent competitive form, Tang Muhan won the women's 800m freestyle final, and the Chinese team won two firsts on the day. Qin Haiyang was a little disappointed, finishing second in the men's 200m breaststroke final by 0.25 seconds, failing to win all three men's breaststroke events, but he was still the best athlete of the Chinese team in this competition. The final number of medals won by the Chinese swimming team was 6 gold, 11 silver and 7 bronze, ranking second in the medal table.
After breaking the Asian record in the women's 100-meter breaststroke final and winning the championship, Tang Qianting swam a good time of 28.76 seconds in the women's 50-meter breaststroke final, setting a new Asian record and winning the championship. In the men's 200m breaststroke final on the final day, Qin Haiyang did not maintain the lead to the end, and was overtaken by Australia's Joshua in the last 25m swim, finishing second in 2:01.92, which is a pity.
In this competition, Qin Haiyang and Tang Qianting are undoubtedly the best male and female players in the national swimming team, and the two won two gold medals each. Although Qin Haiyang failed to win all the gold medals in the men's breaststroke as he did in last year's World Cup, he broke the Asian record twice and still showed a good competitive and mental state. Tang Qianting's outstanding performance comes from her unwillingness to lose to her opponent in the Paris Olympics and her hard training for more than two months, while Qin Haiyang's "outburst" comes from his desire to show his dominance in the men's breaststroke event and vent the suppressed emotions in his heart, both of whom have strong mental motivation.
The overall performance of the other medalists in the Chinese team at the Paris Olympics was mediocre and there were not many bright spots. After all, the short course competition is not the mainstream event of world swimming, although all 31 athletes who competed in the Paris Olympics have signed up for the Shanghai competition, which is more due to the fact that as the host, the Chinese team must pay attention to this competition, but also to give feedback to swimming fans and spectators, and there is no mandatory performance requirement for their specific performance.
Some of the players of the Chinese team are registered across disciplines, looking for the feeling of not competing for more than two months, and some players are just trying to stop, after the Paris Olympics, there is no systematic training, and there is no special preparation for the short course competition, and the Chinese team has won 24 medals and has qualified. In the next two sub-tournaments in Incheon and Singapore, the Chinese team will significantly reduce the number of participants, and even the Budapest Short Course World Championships at the end of the year will not send an all-main team to participate.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin