The 2013 National Swimming Championship and World Championship trials ended in Qingdao, Shandong province on the evening of March 31. The 8-day competition set a new Asian record and a national record, and created a number of world best results this year. The recovery of senior generals such as Sun Yang, Fu Yuanhui and Ye Shiwen can be said to have completed another self-breakthrough; Young players such as Wang Jianjiahe and He Junyi have amazing performances that make people shine at the moment. Less than a year before the Tokyo Olympic Games, the preparation of the Chinese swimming team also entered the sprint stage.
Sun Yang is undoubtedly the biggest focus of this competition. Sun Yang participated in the men’s freestyle 200 meters, 400 meters and 800 meters, all of which created the best result this year, and 1500 meters created the second best result in the world this year. For Sun Yang, the Olympic champion is only 800 meters short of the new Olympic event. In order to achieve the goal of winning the gold medal in this event in Tokyo, Sun Yang is trying to maintain his strength in long-distance freestyle.
Compared with the state when preparing for the Jakarta Asian Games last year, Sun Yang felt more relaxed in the upstream of the long-distance freestyle project. He was glad that his foundation of aerobic endurance was consolidating and recovering.
However, young people are more dominant in long-distance freestyle because of their stronger aerobic endurance. In this national championship, Sun Yang is the only post-90s veteran in both the men’s 800-meter freestyle final and the 1,500-meter freestyle final. All the other contestants are post-90s and post-00s, and most of them are newcomers after 00.
In the competition with a group of young athletes with better physical strength and faster physical recovery, Sun Yang can not only rely on outstanding talents, but also make unremitting efforts and struggle.
What made Sun Yang happy was that his performance in this national championship could satisfy himself and also meet the expectations of coach Zhu Zhigen and foreign teacher Dennis, this added his confidence and expectation to this year’s world championships and next year’s Olympic Games.
In addition to Sun Yang, Ye Shiwen and Fu Yuanhui, two veteran Chinese women’s team, have also walked out of the trough.
After the National Games in 2013, Ye Shiwen, the Olympic champion, continued to decline with his health. After the 2017 National Games, as Ye Shiwen began to concentrate on studying in Tsinghua University, the outside world once thought that she would retire. But since last summer, Ye Shiwen has returned to the swimming pool, and the competitive state is getting better and better. In this national championship, Ye Shiwen won three gold medals alone, and the strength of the 200-meter and 400-meter individual medley rebounded to the top level in the country again. Ye Shiwen was satisfied with her performance, but what she was more satisfied with was that after several years of ups and downs, she finally understood how to stick to her ideal and her mentality was more mature, know your strengths and weaknesses, and know how to make up for your weaknesses.
Like Ye Shiwen, Fu Yuanhui also encountered the low ebb of her competitive career. The fiasco of the 2017 world swimming championships can be said to be a memory she did not want to mention. However, from the Hangzhou short pool swimming world championships at the end of last year, Fu Yuanhui’s status rebounded. In this national championship, Fu Yuanhui easily won three gold medals, and her humorous expression returned to her face again. However, she claimed that the results of this competition had not yet shown her best training status, and she admitted frankly that her future performance would be better and better.
Chinese swimming has always been a new generation. The biggest discovery of this National Swimming Championship is He Junyi, the champion of men’s 100 m freestyle.
In this National Swimming Championship men’s 100 m freestyle competition, the cold gate broke out. He Junyi, a 22-year-old Zhejiang player who was unknown, won the championship with the advantage of leading the Guangdong star Yu hesin half of his body position. What is more surprising is that He Junyi’s achievement is the second best result of this project in the world this year. After Zetao Ning retired, He Junyi’s sudden rise made the Chinese men’s short-distance free travel project see the possibility of competing with the world’s strong players.
He Junyi, who also worked as a famous coach Zhu Zhigen with Sun Yang, was originally a long-distance 1500-meter freestyle. It was only in 2018 that he should practice short-distance freestyle, but in more than a year, He Junyi made rapid progress.
He Junyi, who is 1.95 meters tall, has the inherent advantage of becoming an excellent swimmer. However, when it comes to the reason for the rapid improvement of his own level, He Junyi said that he mainly strengthened strength training in recent months. His weight was growing before, but his strength was not strong enough.
For his amazing performance in the national championship, He Junyi said that he just played his normal training level. Moreover, because the coach didn’t set a goal for his performance, he didn’t have much pressure in this competition.
He Junyi’s performance today ranks second in the world this year, and he can win the championship in last year’s Asian Games. However, since it was just in March, this year’s competitions have not yet been fully launched. Therefore, the world’s second achievement can only be a reference, more reflecting the incentive significance to He Junyi.
After losing Ning Zetao, Chinese swimming lost its competitiveness in men’s short-distance freestyle and could not compete with Japan in Asia. However, the sudden rise of He Junyi will greatly enhance the strength of Chinese swimming in men’s short-distance freestyle. But it should also be noted that this National Swimming Championship was only an appearance for the fledgling He Junyi, and the world swimming championships in July this year was the first real test for him.
According to the world ranking of men’s 100 m freestyle in the past two years, the score of 48 seconds 10 is not enough to ensure that He Junyi can hit the top eight of the world championships. This score can only rank 13th in the world in 2018. For the 100-meter men’s freestyle players, 48 seconds is a threshold. Only when they swim within 48 seconds can they be guaranteed to advance to the final of the world championship, and they have to compete for medals and even catch up with the achievements of winning the World Championship created by Zetao Ning, he Junyi has a long way to go.
The only player who broke the Asian record in this national championship was 17-year-old general Wang Jianjiahe. Wang Jianjiahe mainly focuses on the mid-long distance freestyle. In the past year, he became famous and was called “female version Sun Yang”. In this competition, Wang Jianjiahe’s 800-meter freestyle champion scored 8 minutes 14 seconds 64, which not only broke the Asian record, but also further narrowed down the gold medal winner in the 2017 world championship, according to the growth rate of Wang Jianjiahe over the past year, the gap between the winning results of American famous ledeki has made people have more expectations in this year’s world swimming championships and next year’s Tokyo Olympics.
BEIJING, April 1st
China Youth Daily · China youth online reporter Cixin Source: China Youth Daily