On July 16, Beijing time, the 2022 World Athletics Championships kicked off in Eugene, the United States. The women's 20-kilometer race walking final was the first final for Chinese athletes to participate. Four Chinese athletes, Liu Hong, Qieyang Shijie, Ma Zhenxia, ​​and Wu Qua

Chinese player Qieyang Shijie won the third place. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ying

On July 16, Beijing time, the 2022 World Track and Field Championships kicked off in Eugene, the United States. The women's 220-kilometer race walking final was the first final for Chinese athletes to participate. Liu Hong, Qie Yang Thirty-four Chinese players including Shi Jie, Ma Zhenxia , Wu Quanming html made a collective appearance. Peruvian player Garcia Leone and Polish player Zeje Boluo won the championship and runner-up respectively. Sister Qieyangshi won the bronze medal in 1 hour, 27 minutes and 56 seconds.

This is the first medal won by the Chinese track and field team at this World Championships. It is also the 15th medal won by China Race Walking in the women's 20-kilometer race walking event at the World Championships. Four-time World Championship champion Liu Hong finished fifth in 1 hour, 29 minutes and 00 seconds, while Ma Zhenxia and Wu Quanming finished 10th and 13th respectively. In addition, in the subsequent men's 20-kilometer race walking final, three Chinese athletes participated, Wang Kaihua, Cui Lihong, Zhang Jun ranked 13th, 14th, and 24th respectively.

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Qieyang Shijie won the medal, Liu Hong won the 5th place

The women's 20-kilometer walking final was fired at 4:10 am on July 16th, Beijing time, with 41 runners from 26 countries and regions participating. , the Chinese team has the largest lineup. Since Liu Hong is the defending champion, the Chinese team is allowed to send 4 players.

htmlIn the Doha World Championships 13 years ago, Liu Hong, Sister Qieyangshi, and Yang Liujing won the gold, silver, and bronze medals in this event. Among the 41 contestants in this World Championship, Liu Hong and Sister Qieyang’s personal best times are 1 hour, 24 minutes and 27 seconds, and 1 hour, 24 minutes and 45 seconds respectively. They rank in the top two of all contestants. Naturally, they are also the best. Become the favorite to win the championship. After the

competition officially started, the four Chinese players were once in the first group. However, Peruvian player Garcia Leon took the lead in accelerating to the front, followed closely by Sister Qieyangshi. The subsequent game turned into a contest between Garcia Leon and Chiyangshi. The two took the lead alternately. Garcia Leon finally crossed the line first, while Chiyangshi was overtaken by Polish player Zejebro. , won third place.

This is the fourth time that Sister Qieyang Shi has participated in the World Championships. In the 2011 and 2019 World Championships, Sister Qieyang Shi won the bronze and silver medals in the women's 20-kilometer race walking respectively. She finished 13th in the 2013 World Championships. Winning third place in Eugene today, Sister Qieyangshi not only won her third World Championship medal, but also the Chinese team's first medal in this World Championship.

Chinese player Liu Hong failed to defend her title and finished fifth. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ying

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The women's 20-kilometer walk has won 15 medals

The women's 20-kilometer walk is a traditional advantage event of the Chinese team. Since it became an official event of the World Championships for the first time in 1999, the Chinese team has successively produced Liu Hongyu, Liu Hong, Yang Jiayu 3 world champion. Before the start of this World Championships, Chinese players had won the championship 6 times in total, and had won the runner-up 5 times and the third place 3 times.

Especially in the five World Championships from 2011 to 2019, Chinese players achieved an astonishing five consecutive championships. In the 2019 Doha World Championships, they won gold, silver and bronze medals. Olympic champion Liu Hong has dominated this event for a long time. Since finishing second at the 2009 World Championships, he has won the 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2019 World Championships, winning a total of 4 gold medals and 1 silver.

In today’s competition, the 35-year-old defending champion Liu Hong regretted finishing fifth, but Sister Qieyangshi’s bronze medal continued China’s race walking glory. Since 2009, Chinese athletes have been on the podium of this event for 7 consecutive World Championships, and the number of medals has increased to 15, continuing to rank first among all participating teams.

On the first competition day of the Eugene World Championships, Chinese athletes failed to win the women's 20-kilometer race walk and the men's 20-kilometer race walk. According to the schedule, on the evening of July 22 and the evening of July 24, the women's and men's 35-kilometer race walking events set up for the first time in the history of the World Championships will be held successively. Sister Qieyangshi, who is capable of both events, will continue to represent China and compete for the gold medal. Attack.

Beijing News reporter Xu Bangyin

editor Han Shuangming

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