Data map: In the women's 200m butterfly final of the Jakarta Asian Games, Chinese player Zhang Yufei won the gold medal in the event with a time of 2:06.61.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Li Peiyun

　　Chinanews client, Beijing, July 18 (Wang Hao) Five days later, the Tokyo Olympic Games, which has been postponed for one year due to the epidemic, will begin.

As a big gold medalist, swimming has attracted much attention in previous Olympic Games.

In this issue of "Tokyo Gold" column, let's take a look at the competition situation of the Chinese swimming team in the Tokyo Olympics.

　　Compared with the previous Olympics, the Tokyo Olympics this year is the one with a smaller number of Chinese swimming teams.

In the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Chinese swimming team had 45 athletes participating, while the number of the Tokyo Olympics was reduced to 30.

The 30 athletes will participate in 34 sub-swimming events of the Tokyo Olympic Games.

　　There are 19 female athletes, including Ai Yanhan, Chen Jie, Cheng Yujie, Dong Jie, Li Bingjie, Liu Yaxin, Peng Xuwei, Tang Muhan, Tang Qianting, Wang Jian Jiahe, Wu Qingfeng, Xin Xin, Yang Junxuan, Yu Jingyao, Yu Yiting, Yu Li Yan, Zhang Yifan, Zhang Yufei, Zhu Menghui.

　　There are 11 male athletes, including Cheng Long, He Junyi, Hong Jinquan, Ji Xinjie, Sun Jiajun, Tan Haiyang, Wang Shun, Xu Jiayu, Yan Zibei, Yu Hexin and Zhang Ziyang.

Data map: In the men's 100m backstroke final of the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships, Chinese player Xu Jiayu won the championship with a time of 52.43.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan

　　The list of stars is slightly dim. The women's team's three famous players Ye Shiwen, Fu Yuanhui, and Liu Xiang were not selected, while the men's team was led by Xu Jiayu, and the proportion of young players was not small.

　　The Chinese swimming team at the Rio Olympics finally won 1 gold, 2 silvers and 3 bronzes. At present, this team is in the stage of changing from the old to the new. At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese swimming team won fewer gold points than the previous one. Mainly pinned on the women's butterfly rookie Zhang Yufei.

　　In the Olympic trials in May, Zhang Yufei ranked first in both events in the world this year. The 100-meter butterfly achieved 55.73 seconds and ranked second in the world this year, and the 200-meter butterfly achieved 2:05.44 in the world this year. the first.

　　The official website of the Tokyo Olympics posted a post after the Chinese team announced the squad, and spoke highly of Zhang Yufei, saying that she has the strength to hit gold medals in both the women's 100-meter butterfly and the 200-meter butterfly.

Data map: In the final of the women's 400m freestyle swimming in the Jakarta Asian Games, Chinese player Wang Jian Jiahe won the championship.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Dongming

　　In the women’s long-distance freestyle, Li Bingjie won a silver medal in the women’s 800-meter freestyle and a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle at the 2017 Budapest World Championships, while Wang Jian Jiahe won a bronze medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle at the 2019 Gwangju World Championships. The teenager also has a certain impact on the medals in the Tokyo arena.

　　As for male athletes, Xu Jiayu, who has participated in two Olympic Games and won the silver medal in the 100-meter backstroke in Rio, won the World Championships twice in the Tokyo cycle.

But recently, he has not been at the peak of the backstroke event, and it is not easy to compete for the gold medal.

　　Wang Shun, who has participated in the London Olympics and Rio Olympics and won the bronze medal in the men's 200m individual medley in Rio, also has the ability to win medals in the Tokyo Olympics. He has competed in the 200m and 400m individual medleys in the Olympic trials. Good performance.

Data map: In the men's 100-meter breaststroke final of the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, Chinese player Yan Zibei (first from right), who broke the Asian record in the semifinals, once again set the Asian record with a time of 58.63, swimming for China Won the bronze medal.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan

　　Yan Zibei, the "Frog King" of the Chinese team, has experience in participating in the Rio Olympics and will usher in an explosion in 2019.

He performed four times to break the Asian record in the Gwangju World Championships and won a bronze medal in the 100-meter breaststroke event.

Whether he can continue to rewrite the Asian record in the Tokyo Olympics is worth looking forward to.

　　The men's and women's mixed 4x100m medley relay is a newly added event for the Tokyo Olympics, which is another major attraction of the Tokyo Olympic swimming team.

Chinese players Xu Jiayu, Yan Zibei, Zhang Yufei and Yang Junxuan are the current world record holders for this event.

At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team will go all out in this project.

　　But as an emerging project, the strength of each representative team may change quickly.

Therefore, there are still many unknowns about the competition situation of the mixed 4x100m medley relay event in the Olympics.

　　In the open water event, Chinese athlete Xin Xin ranked fourth in the women's marathon swimming event of the Rio Olympics in 2016, rubbing shoulders with the medal.

But during the Tokyo cycle, she made significant progress, and even won the championship in the Gwangju World Championships in 2019.

There is no doubt that she will be a strong contender for the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics.

　　The Tokyo Olympic swimming competition will be held at the Tokyo Aquatic Center from July 24 to August 1. Let us look forward to the performance of the Chinese swimming team!

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