reporter Huai Xiao
On July 3, Beijing time, the competition for the 2022 Budapest World Swimming Championships ended on the last competition day. Shandong athletes had breakthroughs, surprises, and some disappointments in this World Championships.
In this competition, when Chinese swimming suffered a setback, Yang Junxuan won the first gold medal for the Chinese swimming team at the World Championships, and was also the only gold medal in the swimming pool event. His performance was remarkable; Lian Junjie partnered with Yang Hao to win the men's doubles ten-meter platform championship, continuing the glory of dream team ; and in the open water swimming women's 10-kilometer competition, Xinxin is still trying to find state.
Surprise
In this World Championships, the Chinese swimming team's start was a bit sluggish. Olympic champions Zhang Yufei, Wang Shun, Xu Jiayu and others did not achieve the ideal results.
html In the early morning of June 26, the World Championships swimming pool competition ended. The Chinese team finally won 1 gold and 4 bronzes. The only gold medal came from Shandong teenager Yang Junxuan.In terms of the number of medals, this is the Chinese swimming team's worst record since the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne. Yang Junxuan, who successfully won the championship, helped the Chinese swimming team open a gold medal account and avoid the embarrassment of the national team having a zero gold medal record.
Perhaps most people could not have imagined before the game that the Chinese swimming team’s breakthrough in gold medals in Budapest would come from Yang Junxuan. In fact, this is the result of her outstanding talent and hard training. Her results have been foreshadowed for a long time, but they just came a little early.
In last year's Tokyo Olympics, Yang Junxuan and his teammates participated in the women's 4×200m freestyle relay . Yang Junxuan, who was the first athlete in the final, was the first athlete to touch the wall. In the end, the women's team won the gold medal by breaking the world record; the men's and women's 4 In the ×100m medley relay, Yang Junxuan helped the team win the silver medal.
It is worth mentioning that the women's 200-meter freestyle is one of the most competitive events in the Tokyo Olympics cycle. The final lineups of the 2017 and 2019 Nagachi World Championships and the Tokyo Olympics are all star-studded. However, in this World Championships, in addition to the absence of famous players, many of the top ten players in the world this season also have exemption cards.
Objectively speaking, many abandonments gave Chinese players an excellent chance to win the championship, and Yang Junxuan became the one who was prepared and successfully seized the opportunity.
This is Yang Junxuan's first World Championships gold medal, and she has therefore become the first swimmer in Shandong to compete in the Olympic Games, World Championships, Short Course World Championships, World Cup, Youth Olympic Games , Asian Games , Military Games, An athlete who has won gold medals in and other competitions in the National Games, he is also the youngest Grand Slam swimmer in China.
html He started swimming at the age of 06, joined the national team at the age of 10, and achieved a Grand Slam at the age of 20. Yang Junxuan’s story is full of inspiration.Today, in the 100-meter freestyle and 200-meter freestyle events, Yang Junxuan is already the well-deserved number one in the country.
Breakthrough
html June 26 is the day when the diving competition of the Budapest World Swimming Championships begins. From this day on, the focus of the World Championships has shifted from the flying fish battle in the swimming pool to the beautiful jumps on the platform. html In the early morning of the 29th, in the men's doubles 10-meter platform final, Shandong player Lian Junjie partnered with Yang Hao to activate the "high score mode". In the end, they scored a total of 467.79 points, 40.08 points ahead of the runner-up, and won the Chinese diving team at this World Championships. The 4th gold medal of the tournament.It is worth mentioning that this is the 99th gold medal won by the Chinese delegation in the World Championships diving event. At the same time, this is also the first men's doubles ten-meter platform world championship gold medal in Lian Junjie's career.
Since the men's doubles ten-meter platform became a World Championships event in Perth in 1998, the Chinese diving team has won a total of 9 gold medals in this event at the 12th World Championships. After winning this gold, the Chinese team has completed four consecutive championships, creating a record history.
Speaking of Lian Junjie’s name, many people are still unfamiliar with it. He started diving when he was 7 and a half years old and has been involved in sports for more than 10 years.
In 2008, Lian Junjie was introduced by the Yantai Swimming Training Center as an outstanding diving reserve talent and began to engage in professional diving training. Just two years later, he was selected by the Shandong Provincial Diving Team, and in 2016 he was officially selected for the Chinese Diving Team.
As a young player born in the 2000s, the 22-year-old Lian Junjie has already won many championships.
In 2015, he won the men's individual ten-meter platform championship at the first National Youth Games; in 2017, Lian Junjie partnered with Ren Qian and won the World Swimming Championships men's and women's mixed synchronized ten-meter platform championship; two years later, Lian Junjie Partner Si Yajie successfully defended the title in Gwangju. Now, he has successfully reached the top of the World Championships for the third time.
Previously, after "thousands of hard work", Lian Junjie mastered 409C with a difficulty of 4.1, which can be regarded as a "skill". However, due to lack of competition experience and other reasons, Lian Junjie regretted not being selected for the Tokyo Olympics.
Right now, the countdown to the Paris Olympics has entered. Lian Junjie is full of expectations for the future. "I hope that through hard work, I can get back what I didn't get in Tokyo in Paris."
regrets
Compared to Yang Junxuan and Lian Junjie, who are in good form, how to get out of the sluggish state has become Xin Xin's top priority.
html On June 29, the World Championships started competition in two events: women's 10 kilometers and men's 10 kilometers in open water swimming. In the women's 10-kilometer final, the defending champion and Shandong player Xin Xin performed poorly and ranked only 24th.Xinxin is an authentic Jinan girl. Born in 1996, she was once a first-line fighter in the domestic middle and long distance swimming world. After transitioning to open waters, Xin Xin has achieved great results again and again.
At the 2019 World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, Xin Xin won the women's 10-kilometer open water swimming final and won China's first world championship in open water.
Xin Xin was originally a long-distance freestyle athlete. He once won the women's 800-meter freestyle National Games championship and broke the Asian record in this event. In 2013, Xin Xin was selected by the coach and began to try to challenge the women's 10-kilometer open water swimming.
In the 2016 Rio Olympics open water swimming women's 10-kilometer final, Xin Xin performed well and finally ranked fourth, just shy of standing on the podium, achieving China's historic breakthrough in this event. In 2019, Xin Xin took a step further and finally won the World Championships.
With the emergence of newcomers in open water events, Xin Xin continued to be challenged after the Gwangju World Swimming Championships. At last year's Tokyo Olympics, Xin Xin finished eighth in this event, nearly 6 minutes slower than when Gwangju won the championship.
A girl with such a "rich" name is now finding it difficult to give a satisfactory answer. Preparing for a new cycle is full of challenges. How to deal with "variables" in a timely manner and find the best preparation rhythm is the next problem that Xin Xin needs to solve.
