Beijing, October 21, China News Service -- The 2021 World Gymnastics Championships produced its first gold medal in Kitakyushu, Japan, on October 21. In the women's individual all-around final that ended that night, the Gold medalist of the Tokyo Olympic gymnastics women's team and the Russian famous Melnikova won the championship, and China's Wei Xiaoyuan ranked sixth.
As the world championship 5 women's individual all-around gold medal winners, the American famous Biles also missed the world championship after withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympic Games, and completed the "post-00s" Melnikova won the world championship gold medal for the first time, breaking the monopoly of the United States on the women's all-around championship for seven times. The runners-up and runner-up were both won by the Americans.
Wei Xiaoyuan, a 17-year-old Guangxi teenager who was the women's all-around champion of the 14th National Games, advanced to the all-around final as the seventh in the preliminaries. On the 23rd, Wei Xiaoyuan will also participate in the high and low bar finals. Second in the preliminaries, she is expected to hit the gold medal in the uneven bars event.
In the preliminary round of the men's project that ended on the evening of the 20th, the Chinese team performed well, and 5 people and 5 items entered the final. Among them, Zhang Boheng, a "post-00s" young player known as the "supernova" of the Chinese gymnastics men's team, lived up to expectations, and his personal all-around, hoop and parallel bars all ranked second, becoming the Most Qualified Chinese Player in this competition. Unfortunately, he finished ninth on horizontal bars and pommel horse, missing out on the final (top 8 in the individual preliminaries and top 24 in the all-around preliminaries).
In addition, China's Weng Hao and Lan Xingyu won the first place in the Kurama and Hoop preliminaries, Hu Xuwei advanced to the horizontal and parallel bars finals, and Shi Cong advanced to the men's individual all-around final with fourth place in the preliminaries. No one in the Chinese team made it to the men's vault and free gymnastics finals.
On the 22nd, the Gymnastics World Championships will feature the most closely watched men's individual all-around final. Zhang Boheng, who is behind host Daiki Hashimoto with a narrow margin of 0.143 points in the preliminaries, will once again challenge the new Tokyo Olympic champion in the final. (End)
Source: China News Network
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