Recently, the International Climbing Federation officially announced the list of 38 people who have qualified for next year's Olympic climbing events, of which two Chinese athletes are on the list: Pan Yufei and Song Yiling, two post-00s young players, will attack the olympic first gold of the event.
Pan Yufei according to Visual China
Song Yiling According to Visual China
As the first official sport at the Tokyo Olympics, climbing has only one gold medal for men and one gold medal for women, and the event is all-around (rock climbing, difficulty, speed). The scoring rules will be multiplied by three sub-rankings to determine the final ranking. It wasn't until the 2024 Paris Olympics that the event increased from two gold medals to four gold medals, with the event being changed to all-around (rock climbing, difficulty) and speed climbing.
Judging from the shortlist announced so far, the host Team Japan and the United States team each have 4 players in the shortlist, becoming the country with the most qualifications. The Chinese team only had two players, Pan Yufei and Song Yiling, shortlisted this time, and zhong Qixin, a veteran born in 1989, did not get the place of his dreams, knowing that he had broken the men's speed climbing world record seven times, and was the first climbing world champion in Asia. However, it should be noted that this list is not the final list, and the qualifications of 4 players from South Africa and Australia are still awaiting the final review of the Olympic Committee, and there will be a place for men and women to be issued in the form of an invitation system.
The list of athletes who have qualified for the Olympic Games is according to the official website of the International Climbing Federation
In last year's rock climbing Olympic qualification tournament, Pan Yufei entered the final with the second place in the total number of points in the preliminary round, which also locked the Olympic seat. He won the bronze medal in the difficulty competition in the 2017 World Cup Xiamen, achieving a breakthrough in the project of Chinese rock climbing; then in the 2019 World Cup in Villars, Switzerland, he won the runner-up in further refreshed the chinese team's best performance in the history of the difficulty competition.
Song Yiling is very competitive in the women's field, she won the World Cup moscow speed race in one fell swoop, when the winning time of 7.38 seconds was only 0.06 seconds slower than the world record.
In addition, according to the official website of the International Climbing Federation, by the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, in addition to the total number of gold medals will increase, the number of participating athletes will also increase from 40 to 68.
Red Star News reporter He Pengnan Pei Han reported by Editor Li Xueli
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