The Tokyo Olympics have just ended, and the Shaanxi National Games are in full swing. After the National Games, the 2021 World Gymnastics Championships will be held from October 13 to 24 in Kitakyushu, Japan, and will allow domestic spectators to enter the competition. The World Championships are single-sport world championships, with no team competitions, only all-around and single-sport competitions.
Li Shijia
Recently, the teams have submitted the list of participating athletes, and the list submitted by the Chinese Gymnastics Association is as follows:
Male athletes: Zhang Boheng, Shi Cong, Weng Hao, Lan Xingyu, Huang Mingqi, Hu Xuwei;
Female athletes: Wei Xiaoyuan, Li Shijia, Luo Rui, Qi Qi.
(This list is preliminary and may be replaced later)
The participants of the Chinese gymnastics team at the Tokyo Olympic Games will all rest and miss the competition; in this list, Li Shijia, Qi Qi, Weng Hao, Lan Xingyu and so on have experience in the World Series. Li Shijia, who won the bronze medal on the balance beam at the 2019 World Championships, regretted missing the Tokyo Olympics due to injury; the men's team supernova Zhang Boheng will participate in the World Series for the first time.
Zhang Boheng, a post-00s athlete, is a rookie in Chinese gymnastics, and he beat Xiao Ruoteng in the Tokyo Olympic Trials and ranked first in the all-around. However, Zhang Boheng did not enter the Olympic roster in the end, and the reason given by the team was that he did not have any world series experience.
Veteran Lin Chaopan, Xiao Ruoteng and Sun Wei represented China in the Olympic men's team competition, Lin Chaopan made a major mistake in free gymnastics, and finally the Chinese team won the bronze medal.
Zhang Boheng's defeat caused great controversy at the time, and he responded on Weibo: "I think I can afford myself." ”
In the ongoing National Games competition, Zhang Boheng ranked first in the all-around after the qualifying round.
The Kitakyushu Gymnastics World Championships will be Zhang Boheng's first time in the World Series, and he will compete with The Tokyo Olympic Men's All-Around Champion and Japan's Daiki Hashimoto. Gymnastics legend Hanghei Uchimura will also participate in the competition.