On July 29, in the women's 4×200m freestyle relay final at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei and Li Bingjie, who represented the Chinese team, performed a miracle, not only winning the gold medal, but also breaking the world record with a time of 3 minutes 34.76 seconds!
Among them, Li Bingjie made the final appearance, faced the crazy chase of american star Ledecky, and finally held the advantage and helped the Chinese team win the gold medal. Although in the previous day's personal event, Li Bingjie failed to defeat Ledecky, in the relay match, Li Bingjie and his teammates wrote history together!
In the Tokyo Olympics swimming women's 4x200m freestyle relay final, the Chinese team set a world record to win the gold medal According to IC photo
World War I fame
At the age of 15, he won 3 world championship medals
In the world swimming world, Ledecky of the United States is known as a "genius girl" and is regarded as a "female version of Phelps". Ledecky is powerful, but there are still many swimming girls who are eager to pull her off the altar, including Li Bingjie, a Chinese supernova from Hebei.
On July 30, 2017, the Swimming World Championships ended in Budapest, Hungary, at the World Championships, Li Bingjie, a 15-year-old Baoding girl, took the podium in the three events she participated in, and won two silver and one bronze, which made her famous.
Li Gang, head coach of the Baoding Swimming Team, who used to serve as Li Bingjie's coach, said: "At present, Li Bingjie has established her position in the middle and long distance. Because the peak of women's middle and long distance swimming generally appears at the age of 18-22, Li Bingjie still has great potential for development, and it is very likely that she will take over the American famous Ledecky in the future and become the new leader of Chinese women's swimming. ”
Li Bingjie According to IC photo
Li Bingjie began to learn to swim from the first grade of primary school, and entered the Hebei provincial team and national team at the age of 12. The World Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary, is Li Bingjie's first international competition, and the three events she signed up for are the women's 400m freestyle, the women's 4×200m freestyle relay and the women's 800m freestyle.
In this competition, Li Bingjie first won a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle; then cooperated with her teammates to win a valuable silver medal in the relay against strong opponents such as Australia; in the women's 800-meter freestyle on the last day, Li Bingjie won the silver medal in the event with a time of 8 minutes 15.46 seconds, breaking the Asian record, and Li Bingjie also became the first Chinese athlete to reach the podium of the project in the world competition.
Li Bingjie once said that her childhood is different from most children, because she has experienced more, her thinking is more mature than that of her peers. On the show, she said she didn't regret her choice: "I think if I had to choose again, I would still choose to swim." Because I think that although we are usually very bitter, the moment when we really stand on the podium, I feel very honored. This is something they can't do. ”
After becoming famous, it fell into a low ebb
Get back to the top with crazy physical training
After becoming famous in World War I, I originally thought that Li Bingjie would continue to work hard and create more brilliance. But competitive sports are always full of drama, and after this competition, she suddenly fell into a low point, and at the beginning of last year, she also suffered from a fracture that affected her training and competition. When Li Bingjie fell into a low point, the rise of Wang Jian Jiahe also made the outside world's expectations of her gradually decrease.
Many people are worried that the "genius girl" will fade away, and only 19-year-old Li Bingjie admits that she has collapsed, but has never thought of giving up. "I was also very disappointed at the trough, and I tried my best not to show it. I feel unwilling, as long as I find the problem, I will definitely come back, and I can't give up like this. ”
Li Bingjie swims at the Tokyo Olympics women's 4x200m freestyle relay final according to IC photo
In order to improve her state and break through the bottleneck, Li Bingjie began to frantically carry out physical training to improve her physical fitness. "I was always penalized, I ran 10 laps, 15 laps well, 100 laps in the track and field field if I ran badly, from morning to noon, I cried while running." When she said this, Li Bingjie had a faint smile on her face, and the bitterness had turned into motivation. Being fined 100 laps is equivalent to running a marathon, but she said, "In the past, I practiced what I was good at, and now I strengthen my bad patch where I can't do it." I saw a change in myself. ”
In the 2021 National Swimming Championships and Tokyo Olympic Trials held in May this year, Li Bingjie, who came out of the trough of her state, swam her second best result and won the women's 400-meter freestyle championship, and also successfully qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
On the field of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Li Bingjie continued her excellent state. In the previous women's 400 meters, she has won a bronze medal; in today's relay race, she and her teammates have won a heavy gold medal unexpectedly.
In the last 20 meters of the race, in the face of Ledecky's almost crazy pursuit, Li Bingjie gritted his teeth and defended the victory for the Chinese team!
Li Bingjie, good look!
The instantaneous speed of the contestants in the sprint stage of the competition is based on the CCTV screenshot
Red Star News reporter Li Bo
Edited by Ou Peng
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