Original title: Watching the Olympics | Wang Shun achieves historic gold medal in men’s 200-meter medley
Source: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission website
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission website Hou Ke
On July 30, at the men’s 200m medley at the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese player Wang Shun won the gold medal with a time of 1 minute and 55 seconds. Before him, Chinese male swimmers had never stood on the highest podium in the Olympic medley event.
“Teacher Chang, I did it.” This was the first sentence Wang Shun sent to Chang Cuifen, the former national coach of Zhejiang Sports School after the match.
In Chang Cuifen’s eyes, Wang Shun is a very agile athlete. “He has a very high savvy, and masters the technology quickly and well.” Chang Cuifen told reporters.
The Chinese men’s swimming team has always been blank in the men’s medley. Until the 2015 Kazan Swimming World Championships, Wang Shun won the bronze medal in the men’s 200-meter medley, achieving a breakthrough for Chinese men’s medley. At the Rio Olympics a year later, Wang Shun chased from seventh to third in the final 50-meter freestyle, winning the first Olympic medal of the Chinese swimming team in the event. In 2016 and 2018, Wang Shun won the men’s 200m individual medley championship twice in a row at the FINA World Short Pool Swimming Championships.
In this game, Wang Shun was faster than the other players after entering the water, always keeping the lead in the butterfly and backstroke stages. In the breaststroke segment, American star Andrew chased him up, and Wang Shun fell to second. In the final 50-meter freestyle, Wang Shun swam in 27.37 seconds, the fastest of all the players, and finally hit the wall first.
“Breaststroke has always been Wang Shun’s shortcoming, but he has obviously improved a lot in this final.” Chang Cuifen said that medley swimmers have to take into account four strokes, which means that they have to work harder than others. .
During this year’s winter training, Wang Shun focused on strengthening the training volume of the breaststroke and backstroke strokes. For a long time, he has to train about 100-110 kilometers per week, and there are 3-4 blood lactate tests, of which 65%-70% of the training is carried out at or close to the competition speed.
“I feel that I have exhausted all my strength to achieve what I said before the game, to let the national anthem be played in the Tokyo arena and the national flag to fly in the Tokyo arena.” Wang Shun said, “It was given to me by the people of the motherland. strength.”
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