National Marathon Team Test: Peng Jianhua and Zhang Deshun won the men's and women's team championships

Image source: Chinese Athletics Association website.

　　China News Service, January 11th. According to the Chinese Athletics Association, on January 8th, in order to implement the work requirements of the State Sports General Administration of "preventing epidemics and preparing for war", combined with the winter training plan and the inspection phase of the winter training effect, the training was promoted by competition. The purpose of the national track and field team marathon group held the first training test of 2021 at the Yunnan Chenggong base.

　　The main content of this test competition is the male and female 15km events. Dong Guojian, Peng Jianhua, Zhang Deshun, Li Dan and other marathon runners who are training in Yunnan participated in this test.

　　Although the field temperature is lower during the competition, the athletes still perform at a higher level.

Peng Jianhua and Zhang Deshun won the men's and women's championships with 45:25.97 and 51:52.21 respectively.

The detailed results are as follows:

　　Men's Team

　　First place Peng Jianhua 45:25.97

　　Second place Dong Guojian 45:26.60

　　Third place Yang Shaohui 45:28.10

　　Fourth place Yang Le 45:31.80

　　Note: Men's 15 km average pace is 3 minutes 01 seconds

　　Women's

　　First place Zhang Deshun 51:52.21

　　Second place Li Dan 52:00.05

　　Third place Li Zhixuan 52:04.18

　　The fourth place is Jin Mingming 52:06:88

　　Note: Women's 15 km average pace is 3 minutes 27 seconds

　　As the first marathon test in 2021, this competition tested the results of team training.

After the match, the women's champion Zhang Deshun said: I am in the adjustment stage recently, and I am quite satisfied with the results of this test competition, and look forward to a good performance in the Tokyo Olympics trials later.

　　At the end of last year, young player Peng Jianhua performed brilliantly in Nanjing Marathon and Xiamen Central East Half Marathon.

During the winter training, Peng Jianhua hoped that he could continue to strengthen cooperation with the coach, sprint towards the goal, and strive to create better results in the Tokyo Olympics.

Veteran Dong Guojian is also quite satisfied with the results of this test competition. In the future stage, he will carefully prepare for the Olympic Games in the trials and realize his dream of running into the top eight in Tokyo.

　　Up to now, the Chinese track and field team has a total of 5 men's marathon runners and 6 women's marathon runners whose results have reached the Tokyo Olympic marathon standard.

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