Original title: 2022 World Swimming Championships Chinese women’s team leader to participate in eight projects “model worker” Zhang Yufei has to listen to the starting gun at most 19 times
If you want to ask who among the Chinese athletes participating in the 2022 World Swimming Championships has the heaviest task and who has the most appearances, it must be Zhang Yufei, the two gold medal winners of the Tokyo Olympics and the leader of the Chinese women’s team.
The 24-year-old Xuzhou girl will compete in the women’s 50-meter, 100-meter, 200-meter butterfly, and the women’s 50-meter freestyle in Budapest. She has finished or will participate in the women’s 100-meter freestyle, 200-meter freestyle, and women’s 100-meter freestyle. The competition of the four relay events of the meter medley and the men’s and women’s 100-meter medley.
“Model worker” Zhang Yufei’s game intensity
Only the new American “flying fish” can match
On the first competition day that ended on June 18, local time, Zhang Yufei did not participate in the women’s 4×100-meter freestyle preliminaries, and participated in the final of the event and the women’s 100-meter butterfly preliminaries and semi-finals of the individual event. In this way, if she can swim to the finals in all personal events, and can participate in the preliminaries and finals of all relay events, theoretically Zhang Yufei will hear a maximum of 19 starting gunshots at this World Championships, which is appropriate. Model worker. I am afraid that including foreign players, only the new American “Flying Fish” Dressel can reach this frequency of competition.
On the first competition day of the World Championships on June 18, Zhang Yufei made two appearances in the individual event, and swam 57.37 and 57.03 in the women’s 100-meter butterfly preliminaries and semifinals, and successfully advanced to the final of the event. . It is worth mentioning that in the final unit that night, she listened to two shots within an hour, first swam the 100-meter butterfly semi-final, and then participated in the women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay final with her teammates (4th place).
Also holds the women’s 100m national record
She’s a true all-rounder
Fortunately, Zhang Yufei did not participate in the preliminaries of the 100-meter self-relay event, otherwise she would have heard the starting gun four times that day. Why did Zhang Yufei participate in the final of the 100-meter self-relay event? Because many professional swimming fans know that Zhang Yufei, who focuses on butterfly swimming, is also the national record holder in the women’s 100-meter freestyle. In the 2020 National Swimming Championships, she broke Shanghai famous Pang Jiaying’s 11-year record with a score of 52.90. The national record that has been carried over from the era of fast swimsuits, Zhang Yufei is a veritable all-rounder and all-round swimmer.
Judging from the schedule of the World Championships, in all 8 days of competition in the swimming pool, only the third competition day, that is, on June 20, Zhang Yufei has no competition task, she can make some adjustments, and Zhang Yufei will appear on the other 7 days. According to the preliminaries, semi-finals and finals for each individual event, the relay event should be divided into two stages: preliminaries and finals. If Zhang Yufei can swim to the end in the individual events, and participate in both the relay preliminaries and the finals, that is After all the calculations, she theoretically has to stand on the starting platform 16 times.
Discover since participating in the World Series
The more you go, the stronger your ability, the greater your responsibility
Of course, it is impossible for the team to have Zhang Yufei play in the preliminary lineup of the relay event. The women’s 50-meter freestyle in the individual event is also extremely competitive. It is not Zhang Yufei’s main event, and it is very difficult to enter the final. In this way, Zhang Yufei would have to hear another 11 to 12 starting gunshots. In the swimming pool in Budapest, Zhang Yufei may have to go through as many as 14 to 15 matches, which is indeed very hard. In this regard, Zhang Yufei’s coach Cui Dengrong will make reasonable arrangements according to the actual situation of the students and the competition, and will also communicate with Zhang Yufei at any time.
In an interview before the competition, Zhang Yufei made the following expression: “The registration for the eight World Championships is actually a challenge in the new cycle. Probably since I participated in the World Championships, I have gradually discovered it myself. The stronger the ability, the greater the responsibility and the more competitions. Until last year’s Olympic Games, the National Games, and this year’s World Championships, the more competitions, the more and more competitions, this is a test for me. There will always be people with strong ability to provoke Some of the heavy burden, even if you don’t do it, someone else will do it, so why can’t I do it?” (Reporter Liu Ailin / Du Rui)