Twin sisters win synchronized swimming world championships
2022-06-20 18:46:51Source: Xi’an News Network
Xi’an News Network News Beijing time on the evening of June 19, at the 2022 Budapest World Swimming Championships, Chinese twin sisters Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi won the synchronized swimming doubles championship, which is also China’s first Olympic world championship in synchronized swimming.
Before that, the Chinese synchronized swimming team won the collective free combination championship at the 2017 World Championships, but that event is a non-Olympic event, and the weight of the championship is far from that of Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi’s gold medal.
China’s synchronized swimming level has improved by leaps and bounds in the past 10 years. It has won all four silver medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics and last year’s Tokyo Olympics, ranking second only to the hegemony Russia in terms of results. Of course, the fact that the Chinese players can make a historic breakthrough this time is also related to the absence of the Russian team. Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi won the championship with a score of 93.7536 points, which is more than 3 points behind the Russian Olympic champion, but it is already a rare high score in the world competition.
In other events of the World Swimming Championships held on the same day, famous athlete Zhang Yufei won the bronze medal in the women’s 100m butterfly with a time of 56.41 seconds. She is the silver medalist in this event at the Olympic Games. Men’s 100m backstroke defending champion Xu Jiayu was eliminated in the semifinals.
He Xiaolong, an all-media reporter from Xi’an Press