Chinanews client, Beijing, July 19 (Wang Hao) The Tokyo Olympics will officially kick off this Friday, and the eyes of sports fans all over the world are converging on Japan.

As a gold medal event, track and field events have always been a battleground for military strategists.

So what is the prospect of the Chinese track and field team in this Olympics?

Can it surpass the Rio Olympics?

　　The track and field competitions for the Tokyo Olympics will kick off on July 30 and will last until August 8.

The Chinese team will send 59 athletes to participate in track and field events, including female athletes including Gong Lijiao, Liu Hong, Yang Jiayu and other athletes, and male athletes including Su Bingtian, Xie Zhenye, and Wang Kaihua.

Data map: Gong Lijiao (middle) won the women's shot put event at the Doha World Championships.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo

　　The women's shot put event is an important gold spot for the Chinese team.

Gong Lijiao maintained his dominant position in this project during the Tokyo cycle.

　　In the women's shot put finals of the 2019 Doha World Championships in Athletics, defending champion Gong Lijiao won the championship with a fourth shot of 19 meters 55 and won the women's shot put world championship again.

Data map: In the women's shot put final of the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, defending champion and Chinese player Gong Lijiao won the championship with a score of 19.55 meters.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo

　　And this year, she also maintained a good competitive state.

In the women's shot put event of the 2021 National Athletics Championships held a few days ago, Gong Lijiao opened the 20-meter mark in the fourth round and finally won the championship with a score of 20.39 meters, ranking first in the world this year.

　　In the Rio Olympics five years ago, Gong Lijiao, a favorite to win the championship, played abnormally and failed to stand on the podium.

Now that she is becoming more and more mature, if she can play a normal level in the Tokyo Olympics, she is very hopeful that she will achieve a "zero breakthrough" for the Olympic gold medal for China's shot put.

　　In addition, in the women's 20-kilometer race walking event, the Chinese team maintained its group advantage.

At the Rio Olympics, Liu Hong won the event.

In this Tokyo Olympics, she still maintained a high level of competition.

　　In the Chinese Race Walking Championships and Olympic Trials held in March this year, Yang Jiayu and Liu Hong both broke the women's 20 km world record.

Yang Jiayu won the championship with a time of 1 hour 23 minutes 49 seconds, and Liu Hong went out of 1 hour 24 minutes 27 to win the runner-up.

Data map: Yang Jiayu.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan

　　In this project, Yang Jiayu and Liu Hong can be described as "double insurance". In the absence of accidents, the Chinese team is very hopeful that the Olympic gold medal will be in the bag.

　　The women's javelin is also a promising event for the Chinese team. At the 2019 Doha World Championships, Liu Shiying and Lu Huihui won silver and bronze medals in the women's javelin competition.

At the Tokyo Olympics, if they can adjust to their best condition, they can hope to attack medals and even gold medals.

　　The men's 20-kilometer race walking used to be the dominant event of the Chinese team. Chen Ding won the event in the London Olympics and Wangzhen won the gold in the event in the Rio Olympics.

But in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, the Chinese team played mediocre in this event.

　　However, in the Chinese Race Walking Championships and Olympic Trials held in March, Wang Kaihua won the championship with a time of 1 hour, 16 minutes and 54 seconds, breaking the national record held by Wang Zhen.

Whether he can revive the glory of this project in the Tokyo Olympics is worth looking forward to.

Data map: In the men's 4X100m finals of the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, the Chinese team consisting of Su Bingtian, Xu Zhouzheng, Wu Zhiqiang and Bie Ge won sixth place and won tickets for the Tokyo Olympics.

The picture shows the Chinese team players Su Bingtian (first from left), Xu Zhouzheng (second from left), Wu Zhiqiang (second from right) and Bie Ge (first from right) checking their results after the game.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo

　　Relatively speaking, the Chinese track and field team is currently competitive in short-distance events and has little hope of hitting medals.

However, the international competition between the Chinese team and the Japanese team is also worth looking forward to.

　　In the men's 100m event, Chinese athlete Su Bingtian is currently the first man in Asia. He won the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games with a record-breaking way.

　　But this year, Japanese players have shown good competitiveness.

In the men's 100-meter final of the Fuse Track and Field Race held in June this year, Yamaxian Ryota won the championship with a time of 9.95 seconds and broke the Japanese national record. This result was 9 seconds and 91 seconds away from the 9.91 seconds held by Su Bingtian and Qatar player Ogunod The Asian record is still 0.04 seconds away.

　　In the men's 100-meter event at the Tokyo Olympics, the contest between Chinese and Japanese athletes deserves attention.

Data map: The men's 4x100m relay final of the Asian Games in Jakarta, the Chinese team won the third place with a time of 38.89 seconds.

The Japanese team won the championship and the Indonesian team won the silver medal.

The picture shows the Chinese team's fourth stick Xu Zhouzheng sprinting.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Huafeng

　　In addition, the men's 4X100m relay event will also be another battlefield for the Sino-Japanese confrontation.

In the past two years, the Japanese team has performed better than the Chinese team in this event. They not only won the gold medal in the Jakarta Asian Games, but also finished third in the 2019 Doha World Championships, while the Chinese team competing on the same field finished sixth.

　　Whether the Chinese team can beat the Japanese team in the men's 4X100m relay event in the Tokyo Olympics will also be a major attraction in the track and field arena.

　　At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Chinese team won 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals in track and field events, ranking fourth in the track and field medal list.

Can they go further at the Tokyo Olympics?

let us wait and see!

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