The 50th World Gymnastics Championships was held in Kitakyushu, Japan, from October 18 to 24, 2021, and the World Championships were only all-around and individual competitions, and the Chinese team sent 6 men and 4 women to participate, of which Lan Xingyu, Huang Mingqi, Hu Xuwei and Wei Xiaoyuan were Guangxi players, except for Lan Xingyu, the other 3 were participating in the World Championships for the first time.
On the evening of October 23, the world championships ended the first single final day of competition, the five gold medals belonged to each other, and the winners of the Chinese team winning the double championship were all Guangxi players.
Wei Xiaoyuan in the women's high and low bar final
Among them, 17-year-old Wei Xiaoyuan won the gold medal in the women's uneven bars with a highest difficulty coefficient of 6.5, leading Brazil's Andrade by 0.1 points with 14.733 points, and completed his international debut with a gold-laden world championship gold medal and became the ST world champion.
Wei Xiaoyuan (center) at the women's high and low bar award ceremony
This is after Mo Huilan won the World Championships Balance Beam Championship in 1995, after 26 years, Guangxi women's gymnastics has reached the world peak again. Wei Xiaoyuan is a well-rounded and very promising young player, in the gymnastics competition of the 14th National Games just concluded in September, she won the individual all-around gold medal for the first time in the National Games, plus the gold medal crowning at the World Championships, with unlimited potential and the future can be expected.
Subsequently, Guangxi ring star Lan Xingyu fought bravely and played well, winning the championship with a high score of 15.200 and winning the men's ring championship, following his victory in the men's team championship at the 2018 World Championships.
Lan Xingyu in the men's hoop final
At the same time, this is the second time that Guangxi men's gymnastics has won the single gold medal at the World Championships after 36 years, following Li Ning's gold medal in the world championships in 1985.
After many years of downturn, Guangxi gymnastics has shown a situation in which the men's team takes the lead in breaking through, the women's team is not willing to show weakness to catch up, and the men's and women's projects go hand in hand, and the competitiveness of Guangxi gymnastics is gradually picking up.
Lan Xingyu at the men's ring award ceremony
Guangxi gymnastics male and female athletes won the World Championships for the first time, creating a historical moment in Guangxi gymnastics, taking a solid step for Guangxi gymnasts to realize their Olympic dreams again, fully demonstrating Guangxi's sportsmanship, sports responsibility and sports strength, and contributing to "revitalizing Guangxi's sports style".