On July 29, Beijing time, the women's 200-meter butterfly of the Tokyo Olympic Games came to the good news! Chinese women's Zhang Yufei competed and finally broke the Olympic record in 2 minutes 03.86 seconds to win gold, which was the first gold medal of the Chinese swimming team in this Olympic Games!
In the previous 4 days of the Chinese team's 17 swimmers in the event, the Chinese team failed to win the gold medal, including Zhang Yufei's previous 100-meter butterfly event, she finally lost the gold medal, lost to the Canadian Chinese McNeil by 0.05 seconds, failed to get the gold medal of the heart, and won a silver medal. But this did not hit Zhang Yufei's confidence and morale, today she won this included gold medal, for the Chinese team to achieve a breakthrough in the Olympic Games!
In this race, Zhang Yufei was in the leading position at the beginning, as the first place in the preliminaries, he also continued to show an extremely strong side in the final, her starting reaction time was 0.6 seconds, the first 50 meters time was 26.92 seconds, and she had successfully thrown off several strong competitors, including two famous players in the United States, Smith, Fritzinger and Slossell in Australia. Opponents were already more than a second behind her.
At 100 meters, Zhang Yufei's performance came to 58.29 seconds, and Frijinger ranked second with 59.86 seconds, still more than 1 second behind Zhang Yufei. In the 150 meters, Zhang Yufei's performance was 1:31.03, and he continued to suppress his opponent for more than 1 second. In the final 50-meter sprint, Zhang Yufei's advantage shrank, but in the end she still won the championship with a good time of 2:03.86, with Smith of the United States ranking second in 2:05.30, trailing her by 1.44 seconds, Frijinger in third place with 1.79 seconds behind, and another Chinese player, Yu Liyan, who was sixth in 2:07.90. The American player saw Zhang Yufei's results and opened his mouth in disbelief!
After winning the championship, Zhang Yufei happily made a heart-to-heart move to the coach, showing a sweet smile, which was the first Olympic gold medal she won in her career and broke the Olympic record. The Olympic record of the project was created by China's famous Jiao Liuyang on August 1, 2012, who won the championship with a good time of 2 minutes 04.06 seconds at the 2012 London Olympic Games, which is equivalent to saying that Zhang Yufei set the Olympic record this time, which was a new 0.2 seconds! The world record was set by China's Liu Zige on October 21, 2009, with a time of 2:01.81, which is a record in the era of tight swimsuits.