Tokyo Olympics: China's Liu Shiying wins women's javelin in athletics, and Lu Huihui finishes fifth

Source: People's Daily Original manuscript

People's Daily Beijing, August 6 (Reporter Yang Lei) On August 6, Beijing time, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Athletics Women's Javelin Final was contested. China's Liu Shiying won the gold medal with a score of 66 meters 34! Poland's Andrei Chuak won silver and Australia's Babel won bronze. Another Chinese player, Lu Hui, will finish fifth.

In the first round, Lu Huihui threw 62 meters 83 in the first throw, temporarily ranking first. Liu Shiying's last appearance, she threw her first shot of 66 meters 34, which also refreshed her personal best of the season. In the second and third shots, Lu Huihui's performance continued to improve, she threw a score of 63 meters 41 in the third shot, Liu Shiying threw 63 meters 40 in the third, and the two successfully entered the last three shots.

In the fourth shot, Liu Shiying fouled and did not get a valid result, and other opponents failed to throw a result that surpassed her. Since Liu Shiying was the last to appear in the last three shots, she chose to be exempt from the vote in the fifth shot. In the last round, when and the penultimate debutant Andrei Chak threw a score of 59 meters 31, all the contestants have finished all the rounds, no one surpassed Liu Shiying's 66 meters 34 thrown, Liu Shiying won the championship! Andrei Chak finished second with a time of 64.61 meters and Babel finished third with a time of 64.56 meters. Lu Huihui will throw 64 meters 41 to finish fifth.