For the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese boxing team will have three athletes, male and female, each participating, three of whom occupy the seed seat and four aim at the highest podium. When I went to Tokyo, the Chinese boxing team gave their strength and sweared to see Jin.
As early as three years ago, the Chinese team, which was preparing for the Olympic qualifiers, proposed the goal of "winning gold medals in women's events and winning medals in men's events." In early 2020, the Asian and Oceania qualifiers of the Olympic Games, which were originally scheduled to be held in Wuhan, were temporarily held in Amman, Jordan due to the impact of the epidemic. The Chinese team overcame many difficulties and urgently visited the game and completed the competition task without any danger. Not only did all the players return safely, but they also brought back 4 gold and 2 bronze medals. A total of six people won the Olympic "ticket" and ranked first in the qualifying round in total.
Although the postponement of the Olympics disrupted the preparation rhythm of the Chinese team, under the leadership of Zhang Chuanliang, chairman of the Chinese Boxing Association, the whole team quickly adjusted their mentality and used the offseason to further polish their skills and improve their physical fitness, and all staff made considerable progress. Several Olympians showed excellent form in the domestic competition in 2020.
The Chinese team is most likely to compete for the Olympic gold medal in three women's events. Among them, Li Qian, a women's 75kg class, won the bronze medal in the Rio Olympics, and also won the World Championships during the Tokyo Olympics cycle, currently ranked third in the world. When fighting in the Olympics again, Li Qian's mentality is more relaxed, which makes her training more quality and then she has more confidence in herself. In Tokyo, her only goal is to reach the highest podium.
Li Qian (left) is in the Olympic qualifying round.
24-year-old women's 51kg rookie Chang Yuan competed in the Olympics for the first time. Chang Yuan became famous at a young age. He topped the World Junior Championships in 2013 and won the Nanjing Youth Olympics championship in 2014. In 2016, he went to Rio with the team as a sparring team to assist in the preparations for the early Olympics. In 2018, she won gold in the Asian Games in Jakarta and reached the semi-finals in the World Championships. "Getting an Olympic gold medal" is Chang Yuan's biggest wish in his zodiac year.
Since the women's 69kg class was not in the Olympic level before, 32-year-old Gu Hong also made her debut on the Olympic stage for the first time. However, she has excellent results in the past competitions, winning gold medals in the 2015 and 2019 Asian Championships and running-up in the 2018 World Championships. Currently, she is the only major opponent of the Chinese Taipei star Chen Nianqin. The strength of both sides is comparable, and the outcome basically depends on her performance on the spot.
In addition to the women's events, the Chinese men's team also has a lot of gold points. As the men's 52kg bronze medalist at the Rio Olympics, 28-year-old Hu Jianguan has made significant progress in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, and is more stable in both psychology and skills. nicknamed "Key Hu", he can always burst out in key competitions. In the Olympic qualifiers, he won the championship in one fell swoop, and his losers included the World Championships champion, the Asian Games champion, and the top three players in the world... This also gave him the confidence to "maintain three and compete for one" in the Olympics. However, due to the fierce competition in men's events and the Olympics allow professional boxers to participate in full, Hu Jianguan suffered a serious eye injury during the Tokyo Olympic cycle, winning the gold medal is not easy.
Hu Jianguan won the gold medal in the Olympic qualifying round.
In addition, Tohtar Buick Donlati Khanhell, a man's 75kg class, and Chen Daxiang, a man's 81kg class, will also participate in this competition. The two are rising stars in the Tokyo Olympic cycle of Chinese men's boxing. They dare to fight and fight and have obtained Olympic qualification. As Chen Daxiang said, although it is still difficult to compete for the Olympic championship, the two will "do their best efforts to show the strength of the Chinese boxing at a high level."
Image source of this article: China Boxing Association official website
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