On June 26, Beijing time, the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships entered the 8th competition day in Budapest, Hungary. All swimming events came to an end. The Chinese team won a total of 1 gold, 4 bronze and 5 medals, ranking 10th in the event medal list. It can be seen from this World Championships that the Chinese swimming team in the post-Sun Yang era is still weak, especially the men’s event lacks leaders. Wang Shun and Xu Jiayu, who performed strongly in the last Olympic cycle, all missed the finals in this competition. The only bright spot comes from Yu Pan Zhanle leveled the national record; in women, Tang Qianting broke the Asian record, and Zhang Yufei was a model worker. Overall, it will take a long time for the Chinese team to return to the previous golden age.
In the post-Sun Yang era, the Chinese men’s team lacked a leader, Wang Shun, Xu Jiayu, and his unexpected state plummeted
In last year’s Tokyo Olympics, veteran Wang Shun won 1 gold and 1 bronze, and he is on the verge of becoming the new leader of the Chinese men’s swimming team. In addition, he has twice won the 200-meter medley gold medal at the short course World Championships. , is a player with a very good record in the Chinese team in the post-Sun Yang era. However, in this World Championships, Wang Shun swam only 2 minutes 01 seconds 35 in the personal main event 200 mixed semi-finals, ranking at the bottom of the 16 athletes, which was a big upset.
The status of another leader of the Chinese team, Xu Jiayu, is even more of a mystery. As the two-time 100-rear champion of the Changchi World Championships, he first swam in the main event 100-rear semi-finals in 53.49 seconds and ranked 10th, and then in In the 50 Yang semi-final, he swam out of 24.90 and ranked 12th, and missed the final again.
In this World Championships, the Chinese men’s team’s best performer is Pan Zhanle. The teenager born in 2004 tied the national record of 47.65 set by Ning Zetao in the men’s 100-meter freestyle semi-final, the first time in 7 years. Once again, he helped the Chinese team enter the men’s 100-meter freestyle world championship final, and finally caught up from the seventh to the fourth. The sprinting ability is amazing. Then in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay final, despite the poor performance of the first three teammates, the finale swam with a good result of 1:45.71, ranking fourth among the finalists, only 18 years old His future is also exciting.
It is worth mentioning that on the last competition day of the swimming event, Sun Yang’s 11-year men’s 1500-meter freestyle world championship record was rewritten by Italian star Patri Nierli, which can also be seen from European and American players. Growing rapidly in the middle and long distances, the Chinese team in the post-Sun Yang era has already faced a strong impact from its opponents.
Even listening to 19 shots, Zhang Yufei became a model worker, Yang Junxuan picked up gold and inspired people
After becoming the double gold medalist at last year’s Tokyo Olympics, Zhang Yufei has quickly grown into the leader of the Chinese women’s swimming team. At the age of 24, she will participate in the women’s 50m, 100m, 200m butterfly and women’s 50m at the World Championships. In the four individual events of the meter freestyle and the four relay events of the women’s 100-meter freestyle, 200-meter freestyle, women’s 100-meter medley, and men’s and women’s 100-meter medley, theoretically, at most 19 gunshots of the starting command will be heard, and she can match her. Comparable, only the Iron Lady Huszu and the American star Dressel at their peak.
In terms of performance, she won the bronze medal in the women’s 100-meter butterfly with a time of 56.41. After the 100-meter final in the 200-meter butterfly, she still ranked first, but she was not physically strong in the second half, and finally finished with a score of 2:06.32 Once again won a bronze medal, in the 50m butterfly final, Zhang Yufei finally ranked third with a time of 25.32 seconds, and all three event finals stood on the podium. In addition, she won a fifth place in the women’s 50-meter freestyle on the final day.
The first swimming gold medal won by the Chinese team in this competition came from Yang Junxuan. She surpassed the fifth place after 50 meters and finally won the championship with a score of 1:54.92. This is also the first time in Yang Junxuan’s career after 00. Win individual gold medals at the World Series!
In the women’s 50m breaststroke semi-final, Tang Qianting of China started in the third lane of the second group and finally swam 30.10 seconds, breaking the Asian record and ranking third in one fell swoop. In the final, she ranked fourth. The podium is just a step away.
In terms of other athletes, Wan Letian ranked fourth in the women’s 100-meter backstroke, Cheng Yujie ranked fifth in the women’s 100-meter freestyle, Peng Xuwei ranked sixth in the women’s 200-meter backstroke, and Ge Chutong ranked sixth in the women’s 400-meter individual medley.
The relay project accidentally “sinks the lake”
The relay event used to be the dominant event of the Chinese team, but in this World Championships, the Chinese team’s performance in the relay event was not satisfactory. In the women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay on the first match day, the Chinese team ranked fourth; in the mixed 4×100-meter relay, the Chinese team consisting of Xu Jiayu, Yan Zibei, Zhang Yufei and Cheng Yujie dropped from third to sixth in the bar times of the two women. Ranked sixth; women’s 4x200m freestyle, the Chinese team ranked fourth; men’s 4x200m freestyle, the Chinese team ranked bottom; the mixed 4x100m freestyle final, the Chinese team sent Hong Jinquan, Wang Changhao, Lao Lihui, Ai Yanhan to play, the whole ranking bottom , and finally ranked bottom with a score of 3:26.92; in the men’s 4×100-meter medley relay on the last match day, the Chinese team sent Wang Shun, Tan Haiyang, Wang Changhao and Pan Zhanle. Ranked last at 62 minutes and 34 seconds; in the women’s 4x100m medley relay, the Chinese team sent Peng Xuwei, Tang Qianting, Zhang Yufei and Yang Junxuan. After the first two rounds, the Chinese team ranked fifth, but the Dutch team overtook the last two rounds. Ranked sixth with a time of 3:57.73. The overall misfire in the relay event is indeed surprising, and this is also a problem that the Chinese team urgently needs to solve in this Olympic cycle.
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