Athletics Federation looks forward to the Tokyo Olympic Games race walking Team China is expected to win the women's 20KM

On July 21, Beijing time, the official website of the World Athletics Federation wrote an article looking forward to the upcoming competition in the Tokyo Olympic Games race walking event. The Athletics Federation officially believes that the hottest favorite for the men's 20 km race walk is the host Shanxi Lihe, and China's Wang Kaihua is his biggest competitor. When predicting the women's 20-kilometer race walk, Tianlian said that the Chinese team had the strength to win the top three of the project to achieve a historical breakthrough. The men's 50 km race walk is the pinnacle of dialogue between defending champion Tot and world record holder Dinis.

The men's 20 km race walk was the only gold medal winning spot for the Japanese athletics team at the Olympic Games. Lihe Shanxi has remained unbeaten in international and domestic competitions since March 2019, including winning the World Championships in Doha. During this period, he came out with the fifth-best result in the history of the project at 1 hour, 17 minutes and 15 minutes, during which time he won the championship five times within 1 hour and 19 minutes, ahead of any other race walker in history. Of course, Shanxi Lihe and his teammates are not absolutely sure of winning the championship, the world championship bronze medalist, Sweden's Carlstrom won 7 of the last 8 20 km race walking competitions, in 2019 he set a Swedish national record of 1 hour 18 minutes and 07 seconds, which is considered by the Athletic Federation to be a strong contender for the medal in this Olympic event.

"The Chinese team has won gold medals in the event in the past two Olympic Games, and although the 2012 champion Chen Ding and the 2016 champion Wang Zhen will not come to Sapporo to compete, the Chinese team is still a strong team," Tianlian said. Earlier this year, Wang Kaihua set a new national record of 1 hour, 16 minutes and 54 seconds, which is still the best time in the world this season. However, the Federation of Fields believes that Wang Kaihua has a tendency to "open high and go low", and Wang Kaihua did well at the beginning of 2017, but only finished seventh at the World Championships in London. Tian lian also mentioned that the other two participants of the Chinese team, Cai Zelin and Zhang Jun, had the best time this season, which was 1 hour, 17 minutes and 39 seconds. Doha World Championship runner-up, Russia's Mizinov, is also considered to have a certain competitiveness.

Speaking of the women's 20 km race walk, Tian lian said at the beginning: "Just like the 2019 World Championships in Doha, it is entirely possible for the Chinese team to sweep all the medals in the women's 20 km race walk." On that occasion, Liu Hong won her third World Championship title less than two years after giving birth to her daughter Xixi, cementing her historical position in the project. Liu Hong won the title in Rio five years ago and set a world record of 1 hour, 24 minutes and 58 seconds in 2015, and she still holds the world record for the women's 50 km race walk, the first female athlete to enter the 4-hour mark. The 34-year-old veteran will become the first female athlete to win consecutive Olympic race walking titles at the Tokyo Olympics.

Yang Jiayu is a very strong opponent, in the Huangshan Olympic Trials in March this year, Yang Jiayu won the championship with 1 hour 23 minutes and 49 minutes and set a new world record, liu Hong won the runner-up in 1 hour 24 minutes and 27 seconds and exceeded the world record he had previously held. The third participant in the Chinese team is Cheyang Shijie, who was the bronze medalist at the 2011 World Championships, the silver medalist at the 2012 London Olympics and the runner-up at the 2019 World Championships in Doha. So far, no team has been able to achieve the Olympic women's race walking competition, and no Asian team has achieved the olympic competition, Tian Lian said: "In Sapporo, China can make history in these two aspects, but as long as one athlete withdraws from the competition, whether it is because of disqualification, fatigue or injury, this plan is in vain." ”

In June, Yusuke Suzuki, the world champion of the men's 50 km race walk at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, announced his retirement from the Tokyo Olympics for physical reasons. The Athletics Federation believes that the 50-kilometer race walk will be contested between defending champion Tot and world record holder Dinis. Slovakia's Totte is now 38 years old, and 43-year-old Frenchman Dinis walked out of the project world record of 3 hours, 32 minutes and 33 seconds in August 2014. The World Athletics Federation said that the three participants of the Chinese team, Luo Yadong, Wang Qin and Bian Tongda, also had a certain competitiveness, and Luo Yadong won the fifth place at the World Championships in Doha, with a personal best of 3 hours, 41 minutes and 15 seconds.