Ye Shiwen won the second gold in the Championship. 200 frog creates the best individual and will become the main item.


Ye Shiwen data map. Taken by Wu Junjie, China News Agency reporter

China News Service, Qingdao, March 29 (Ma Yuanhao) the 2019 National Swimming Championship will continue on the 29th in Qingdao. Ye Shiwen, the Olympic women’s medley champion, won the second gold medal in this championship with his personal best score of 2 minutes 23 seconds in the women’s 200 m breaststroke final. Ye Shiwen said after the game that he would prepare for the project as an individual main item in the future.

At the London Olympics, Ye Shiwen, who was only 16 years old, was surprised by four people because he only won two gold medals in the 200-meter and 400-meter medley and broke a world record and an Olympic record. In 2014, Ye Shiwen studied in Tsinghua University with the support of Xu Guoyi, the Meritorious coach and teacher of the Chinese swimming team, and stopped swimming in 2017.

Seeing the Tokyo Olympics approaching, Ye Shiwen took the initiative to contact Xu Guoyi and expressed that he wanted to stand on the Olympic stage again. “He had been afraid of the competition in the low Valley and hoped to defeat himself in the Tokyo Olympics”, and began preparations in the summer of 2018.

In addition to restoring the 200-meter and 400-meter medley in the “Old Line”, Ye Shiwen also took the women’s 200-meter breaststroke as one of the main projects in the Tokyo Olympic cycle. After returning to the Beijing station of the first swimming world cup, Ye Shiwen achieved a good result of 2 minutes 21 seconds 90 in this project, and to the Singapore station of the World Cup two weeks later, ye Shiwen improved his performance by 3 seconds.

The 200-meter breaststroke competition in this championship is the first competition of this project in the national stage after Ye Shiwen returned, and it is also an important step for him to strive to stand on the gwangzhou world championship. In the final, Ye Shiwen fully showed the effect of winter training. The gap between the 100-meter distance and other players was opened. With his later outbursts, he won the gold at 2 minutes 23 seconds 46.

After the water started, Ye Shiwen was calm and calm, and he didn’t breathe at all. “The result is expected, quite satisfied. After the semi-finals, I was sure to win the gold. Of course, today’s result can be better. Breaststroke practice is not much, just think this project has potential. When I first returned, 70% of my energy was devoted to Medley, and breaststroke accounted for only 30%. After that, the training focus may be placed on breaststroke, which will gradually become the main item.”

Ye Shiwen said his goal was to “break through the Demons”. “If you want to be competitive in the world, you need to improve at least 1 or 2 seconds on the basis of today’s performance.”

“Ye Shiwen is enjoying the training at present. I used to ask her to practice, but now she is suffering and tired from taking the initiative to receive the training. After she went to Tsinghua University to study, she matured a lot. As for the result of the competition, I told her that as long as she worked hard.” Xu Guoyi said. (Finished)