China News Service, Hohhot, March 21st. Title: Breaking the world record for women's 20km race walking. Yang Jiayu prepares for the Tokyo Olympics

　　China News Agency reporter Li Aiping

　　"Now that the psychological burden can be put down, we can prepare for the Tokyo Olympics with peace of mind."

　　On the evening of the 20th, Yang Jiayu, who broke the women's 20-kilometer race walking world record in 1 hour, 23 minutes and 49 seconds and qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, said by phone.

　　The 20th was the happiest day for Yang Jiayu, a 25-year-old athlete from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

In the afternoon of the same day, in the Ironman Cup 2021 National Race Walking Championships and Olympic Trials held in Huangshan, Anhui, Yang Jiayu achieved the above impressive results.

　　According to sources from the Sports Bureau of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the original world record for women's 20-kilometer race walking was 1 hour 24 minutes and 38 seconds, which was set by Chinese athlete Liu Hong in 2015.

　　How could Yang Jiayu break the world record?

Everything is not accidental.

　　As the star of hope in the women's 20-kilometer race walking event, she won the gold medal in the event at the 2017 London World Championships in Athletics and the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games.

　　"I planned to break the world record before the game, and go to about 1 hour, 24 minutes and 10 seconds." Yang Jiayu told reporters, "In this game, 1 hour, 23 minutes and 49 seconds was better than expected."

　　Regarding the achievement of such a good result, Yang Jiayu analyzed: "The main reason is that the previous winter training was more systematic and played a role. This is also a good result of the systematic training in the winter training."

　　Although Yang Jiayu felt confident of getting tickets for the Tokyo Olympics before the game, she also frankly said: "I would actually be nervous before the game. After learning that I was qualified, I was so happy."

　　Yang Jiayu, who likes to shoot short videos in his life to relieve the pressure of training, sometimes also imagines the possibility of winning the Tokyo Olympics.

　　She told reporters: "As a sports athlete, life is actually relatively boring. It takes every day to devote all of your attention to getting good results."

　　"To win at the Tokyo Olympics, of course I would want to, but in addition to strength, the Olympic Games requires a little bit of luck. So now prepare for the game without worrying about the results." Yang Jiayu said.

　　"I hope that every year I can run in love." This Spring Festival this year, Yang Jiayu's words on Weibo once attracted the attention of netizens.

　　In response to this sentence, Yang Jiayu said: "Doing what you like is the greatest happiness in life." (End)