As a traditional advantage event in Chinese athletics, the women's 20 km race walk has always been the focus of the Chinese delegation's competition for gold. At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team sent Liu Hong, Yang Jiayu and Qieyang Shijie to play, and these three players are currently ranked in the top three in the world rankings. The "three insurances", which were generally optimistic before the game, finally won a bronze medal, and the unpredictability of the arena was vividly reflected in this game.
On August 6, the Tokyo Olympics athletics women's 20 km competition began. In the race, Yang Jiayu was sentenced to a foul penalty of 2 minutes at 18 km for the third time, and she had been in the first group before missing the opportunity to impact the gold medal; Liu Hong, who was still in the fourth place in the sprint stage, was also fined for 2 minutes because of the Brazilian runner Xena in front of her, and won a bronze medal in the last moment; and Qieyang Shijie, who was in the leading position 14 km before the race, gradually lost her competitive advantage in the back.
Liu Hong:
The defending champion set off again, and the "comeback with baby" broke the world record
At the Rio Olympics five years ago, Liu Hong won the gold medal in the women's 20 km race walk with a time of 1 hour, 28 minutes and 35 seconds, writing the most important stroke for her full honor book. After completing her long-cherished wish to stand on the top podium of the Olympic Games in her career, Liu Hong completed another major event in her life in 2017 - the birth of her daughter Xixi, which made Liu Hong add a more important label to the title of athlete: "mother".
Liu Hong according to IC photo
The child once became the absolute focus of the Olympic champion's life, but out of love for the sport and career, Liu Hong made a very difficult decision when her daughter was 6 months old: weaning and coming back! While taking the child, while carrying out recovery training, Liu Hongbi felt hard, but the silent support of her husband Liu Xue made the former Olympic champion return to the stage of defending his title.
As a former team doctor of the national team, Liu Xue has become the most solid backing for Liu Hong's life and training, not only setting up special training for his wife to restore her state, but also assuming the responsibility of a "grandfather". Fortunately, all the efforts have been rewarded, and in 2019, in Huangshan, Anhui Province, Liu Hong rewrote the world record for the women's 50 km race walk to 3 hours, 59 minutes and 15 seconds. If this result is placed in the men's 50 km race walk at this year's Tokyo Olympics, Liu Hong can even rank 21st among all the 47 team members who finished the race!
At that time, Liu Hong became a super "Golden Slam" athlete who combined the gold medals of the Women's 20 km Race Walk at the Olympic Games and the World Championships, as well as the world records for the women's 20 km race walk and the women's 50 km race walk.
Today, when the Brazilian athlete, who ranked third in front of him, was penalized in the sprint stage, Liu Hong "luckily" won a bronze medal and raised her Olympic medal count to 1 gold and 2 bronze.
Yang Jiayu:
From the bench to the number one main force, the "Grand Slam" is still short of the last piece of the puzzle
In the National Race Walking Championships and Tokyo Olympic Trials in Huangshan in March this year, Yang Jiayu successfully won the championship with a time of 1 hour, 23 minutes and 49 seconds, and took the world record of the project into his arms.
Yang Jiayu according to IC photo
In her career, the world championships, the National Games, the Asian Games and other major competitions have been won, and the puzzle of the career "Grand Slam" is only one piece of the Olympic champion. In an interview, Yang Jiayu once said, "I hope that [I am] in Tokyo can still maintain this momentum." ”
In fact, at the Rio Olympics, Yang Jiayu had already gone out with the team, but at that time, she went to the South American continent as a substitute team member and did not get the opportunity to play. Watching teammate Liu Hong cross the finish line first, Yang Jiayu had already set his goal of playing in the Olympic Games as the main player.
However, in Tokyo, Yang Jiayu was fined 2 minutes before the last 2 kilometers, and she also withdrew from the championship competition after competing with the Italian athletes for the first place.
Sister Cheyangshi:
Three times out of the Olympic Games, the herdsmen family out of the world's famous players
Born in 1990 in Qinghai to an ordinary herdsman family, Sister Qieyang Shi entered the Qinghai Provincial Sports School at the age of 16 and started the road of middle and long-distance running. Two years later, she switched to race walking after joining the Qinghai Provincial Sports Brigade. At the beginning, because the technical requirements between the two projects were different, Sister Qieyang Shi also experienced the pain of changing the project, but the spirit of the children of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau who were particularly able to endure hardships and struggle quickly adapted to the training and competition rhythm of race walking.
Cheyang Shijie picture according to IC photo
In 2012, after only two years in the national team, she made her debut at the World's Highest Athletic Stage, but she won a silver medal with a record-breaking Asian record.
After winning the third place in the National Championships and Olympic Trials in March this year, Sister Cheyang Shi said in an interview: "There are two important competitions to participate in this year, the Olympic Games and the National Games, and after the competition, I may have to retire, so this year's two games are very important to me, and I must go all out." ”
In today's race, Sister Cheyang Shi took on the responsibility of leading the race from the beginning of the race, and it is undoubtedly difficult for her to know that such tactics are undoubtedly difficult for her: she has been in the first group for 14 kilometers, and the back distance has gradually been overtaken by other runners because of her physical strength, and finally won the seventh place.
Red Star News reporter Li Bo Pei Han
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