In the Olympic men's 400m freestyle final at the Tokyo Aquatics Center on the morning of July 25, 18-year-old Tunisian teenager Hanavoy stood up and won the championship with a time of 3 minutes 43.36 seconds, staging eight miracles to win the second gold medal in the country's indoor swimming event in the history of the Olympic Games for Tunisia, reliving the glory of his senior Meluli at the Beijing Olympic Games 13 years ago. The scene of the crowd in this project also reflects the new pattern of champions and no hegemons in the men's middle and long distance freestyle event in today's international sports.
Hanavoy advanced to the final as the 8th in the preliminaries, so he could only qualify for the final in the eighth lane, and not many people knew him or paid attention to him before the game, basically focusing on Australia's McLaughlin and American Killand Smith. But the result of the race was much more unexpected, after the last turn, Hanavoy launched a powerful sprint, the last 50 meters like an arrow off the string, the first to hit the wall, staged eight miracles. This scene is reminiscent of the famous scene of China's Luo Xuejuan winning the side road in the women's 100m breaststroke final at the 2004 Athens Olympics. At the same time, Hanavoy's victory also recreated the glory of his senior Osama Mailuli in the men's 1500m freestyle final at the Beijing Olympic Games. Hanavoi's victory was also Tunisia's second gold medal in swimming in its Olympic history.
Born on December 4, 2002, Hanavoy is not yet 19 years old and has only one previous record for an international competition, finishing 8th in the men's 400m freestyle final at the 2018 Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games. The emergence of Hanavoy also makes people see the rise of African athletes in swimming and are full of interest.
In recent Olympic Games and World Championships, because of the presence of Sun Yang in this project, Chinese swimming fans are very concerned. At the Tokyo Olympics, Sun Yang, the london Olympic champion, the runner-up of the Rio Olympics and the four consecutive winners of the Swimming World Championships, was banned, which made people feel little interest. Even Rio Olympic champion Mark Horton was absent because of the disqualification of the Australian domestic selection, thus creating a situation in which the project had no champion and no hegemon, and the results were not fast. It should be known that Sun Yang's victory in the Rio Olympic Games was 3 minutes 41.68 seconds, while sun Yang's world record for this event was 3 minutes 40 seconds 14 seconds faster, which was significantly better than Hanavoy's performance.
In any case, the emergence of Hanavoy has made the distribution of the world's best swimmers and the countries and regions that have won gold medals appear more extensive. In fact, in the competition for the first gold medal day of swimming at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the gold medals of the four events were taken away by the United States, Japan, Tunisia and Australia, and none of the representative teams could win the multiple gold medals, which was a positive thing.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin