On July 16, Beijing time, the 2022 Oregon World Track and Field Championships continued in Eugene, the United States. Several members of the Chinese team qualified for the finals. Gong Lijiao ranked first in the women's shot put preliminaries with a personal season's best score of 19.51 meters, and Song Jiayuan also successfully entered the finals. Xu Huiqin and Li Ling entered the women's pole vault finals hand in hand, Rona entered the women's hammer throw finals, Wang Jianan entered the finals in the men's long jump competition.
In the women's shot put preliminaries, Chinese star Gong Lijiao threw 18.74 meters in the first throw and a personal season best of 19.51 meters in the second round, directly qualifying for promotion. She ranked first in the preliminaries. Song Jiayuan also entered the finals in sixth place with 19.08 meters. Zhang Linru ranked 19th with 17.54 meters and missed the final.
In the women's pole vault preliminaries, Xu Huiqin ranked tied for first with 4.50 meters to advance. Li Ling ranked tied for 12th with 4.35 meters. She also qualified for the finals. Niu Chunge ranked 26th with 4.20 meters and missed the final. In the women's hammer throw preliminaries, the Chinese team's Luo Na ranked 10th with 71.36 meters and entered the final. Li Jiangyan ranked 14th with 70.50 meters. Zhao Jie ranked 21st with 68.18 meters. Both of them were Missed the finals. Cassana Ward of the United States ranked first in the preliminaries with a time of 74.46 meters.
In the men's long jump preliminaries, Wang Jianan entered the finals in 10th place with a jump of 7.98 meters. Huang Changzhou did not perform well and was eliminated in 22nd place with only a jump of 7.75 meters.
The men's 20-kilometer walking race is a very competitive event for the Chinese team, which has achieved very good results in previous world competitions. The Chinese team's performance in the men's 20-kilometer race walk at the Tokyo Olympics was poor. This time at the World Championships, they hope to make a turnaround. The Chinese team sent Wang Kaihua , Cui Lihong and Zhang Jun to participate. Zhang Jun has the best performance this year. His world ranking is 8th, and Wang Kaihua is ranked 12th. Spain's Martin and Garcia are the favorites to win the men's 20-kilometer race. They are among the top two in this year's world rankings. Japan's famous players Shanxili and are the gold medalists in the men's 20-kilometer walk at the 2019 Doha World Championships. They are also among the favorites to win the championship. one.
Shanxi Lihe picked up the pace soon after the start of the game. He left the big group behind and took the lead alone. But other players quickly caught up with him and formed a large group. Zhang Jun, Wang Kaihua and Cui Lihong all followed him in this large group. In the following race, the distance between the leading group players was not widened. At the end of 10 kilometers, the time was 40 minutes and 33 seconds. Shanxi Lihe, Martin and others were in the lead, while Zhang Jun, Wang Kaihua and Cui Lihong were in third place respectively. 12th, 13th and 15th, they are all in the leading group.
After 10 kilometers, Shanxi Lihe speeded up again and took the lead. As the game progressed, the three Chinese players gradually fell behind. After 15 kilometers, Sweden's Karlström once overtook the lead, but Shanxi Lihe quickly regained the lead. In the final sprint, Shanxi Lihe took the lead alone as he went faster and faster. He won the championship in 1 hour, 19 minutes and 7 seconds. Another Japanese player Ikeda Maki won the silver medal, and Carlstrom won the bronze medal. Wang Kaihua finished 13th in 1 hour, 21 minutes and 41 seconds, Cui Lihong finished 14th, and Zhang Jun finished 24th.
Another final event on this competition day was the men's and women's mixed 4×400 meter relay final. The American team ranked first after the third leg, but in the last leg, the Dominican team overtook in the last 100 meters. They won the championship in 3 minutes, 09 seconds and 82 seconds. . The Netherlands won the silver medal in 3:09.90, and the United States won the bronze in 3:10.16.
