Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, May 20 (reporter Wang Hengzhi, Wu Junkuan) streets in downtown, cool music and lights, and passionate DJ…… This is not a performance site, but an international track and field event on the street.
In the 2019 IAAF World Challenge (Nanjing station) long jump single event and China track and field Street tour · Nanjing station competition held in Nanjing on the evening of 20th, jamaica player tagger Gale won the championship in plot twist at the last jump. Two Chinese players Zhang Yanguang and Gao Xinglong ranked second and third.
There are 7 men’s long jump masters participating in the competition, including Chinese famous generals Huang Changzhou, Zhang Yaguang and Gao Xinglong. Happy Dragon jumped out of the score of 8 meters 10 in the first jump, and became the only player who “broke eight” in the first two jumps. In the third jump, Zhang Yaoguang also jumped 8 meters 10. At the end of the first three jumps, the two Chinese players went hand in hand, while the other players still did not jump into the eight meters. After that, the fourth and fifth jumps were calm until the last jump, Gale jumped 8 meters 21, and more than two Chinese players rose to the top of the list at one stroke, zhang Yanguang and happy dragon who appeared later failed to surpass this distance at the last jump, and finally Gale reversed and won the championship.
After the game, Gao Xinglong said frankly that the game failed to play its level. He said: “I am not very satisfied with my performance. The training before the game is better, this normal should be able to jump to more than 8 meters 25, but it may not be completely in the state because of the first game of the season.” He revealed that his goal this season is to strive to jump out of PB (personal best score), reaching more than 8 meters 35. His current personal best score is 8 meters 34.
This year’s world championships will be held in Doha. Gao Xinglong said that he should try his best to strive for the qualification of the world championships, hoping to make up for the regret that the 2015 World Championships failed to stand on the podium. He said: “I hope that my career can stand on the podium in the world championships or the Olympic Games.”