Original title: Gymnastics World Championships: Chinese team’s daily double crown and 3 gold lead “Almighty King” Zhang Boheng retired due to injury
China News Service, Beijing, October 23. The 2021 Gymnastics World Championships will continue to be held in Kitakyushu, Japan on the 23rd. In the 5 individual finals that ended that day, the Chinese team won double crowns and collected gold, silver and bronze medals-two Chinese teenagers Wei Xiaoyuan and Luo Rui won the uneven bars gold and bronze medals, Lan Xingyu won the ring and Weng Hao won the silver.
Up to now, the Chinese team has won 3 gold medals in this World Championships, ranking first among all participating teams. Regrettably, the Chinese “post-00” teenager Zhang Boheng, who has just been crowned the “Almighty King”, withdrew from the individual competition due to injury.
Before the start of the game on the 23rd, the Chinese gymnastics team reported regrettable and worrying news: Zhang Boheng retired due to a back injury. In the men’s all-around final on the 22nd, Zhang Boheng defeated the host star and Tokyo Olympic champion Hashimoto Daiki to win the gold medal. In the individual preliminaries, Zhang Boheng advanced to the finals of the rings and parallel bars as second.
According to news from the Chinese gymnastics team, Zhang Boheng felt uncomfortable with his lumbar intervertebral disc after winning the all-around championship on the evening of the 22nd. In order not to aggravate his injury, but also focusing on the preparations for the Paris Olympics, he decided to let Zhang Boheng abandon the follow-up competition.
What is gratifying is that in the game that day, the Chinese team ushered in good news, winning 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze.
In the uneven bars finals, the 17-year-old Wei Xiaoyuan won the gold medal with 14.733 points ahead of Brazil’s Andrade with the highest difficulty factor of 6.5. The 15-year-old Rory and Andrade scored 14.633 points, but because the completion points were lower than the latter, he won the bronze medal.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese athlete Lu Yufei won the fourth place on the uneven bars. At that time, Wei Xiaoyuan was just a substitute player for the Chinese women’s gymnastics team. In the subsequent 14th National Games, Wei Xiaoyuan won the women’s all-around champion. Now, she has once again proved her strength with the gold medal of this world competition.
In the first vaulting competition that day, Tokyo Olympic vault champion Andrade won the gold medal again, defending her dominance in the field.
In the ring competition, the Chinese team had taken the top two spots in the preliminaries, Lan Xingyu and Zhang Boheng, to form a double insurance. But after Zhang Boheng retired, only Lan Xingyu was left to fight alone. Fortunately, Lan Xingyu was not affected. He calmly challenged and played steadily. He won the championship with a high score of 15.200. This is also the third gold medal won by the Chinese team in this World Championship.
In the men’s pommel horse final, Weng Hao, who ranked first in the preliminaries, missed the champion. Due to small mistakes in handstands and moves, Weng Hao finally tied with Japanese player Xuan Hemo with 14.900 points to win the silver medal. U.S. player Nedorothick won gold with a high score of 15.266 and became the first pommel horse world champion in American history. In the men’s floor exercise finals, Italy’s Bartorini won the gold medal.
This year’s Gymnastics World Championships will have the last 5 individual competitions on the 24th. Rory, who ranked first in the preliminaries, will hit the gold medal in the balance beam final. Hu Xuwei will fight on the parallel bars and horizontal bars, and Shi Cong will replace Zhang Boheng, who has retired, to play on the parallel bars. (over)
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