(Tokyo Olympics) Highlights of the event: Women's shot put Gong Lijiao rushes to the gold badminton women's singles Chen Yufei wins
China News Agency, Tokyo, July 31 (Reporter Wang Zumin) The first day of August is also the first day of the second half of the Tokyo Olympic gold medal battle. The Chinese Army will fight for gold medals in track and field, diving, badminton, gymnastics and other venues.
On the closing day of swimming, the Chinese team will continue to hit medals.
Women's shot put Gong Lijiao rushes to swim gold to finish the Chinese team's squad
On August 1st, there will be 4 gold medals in the women’s shot put, women’s triple jump, men’s high jump and men’s 100 meters.
Is the speed of the trapeze war in the post-Bolt era slowing down?
Can the world number one Gong Lijiao win his first Olympic gold medal?
What will be the performance of Chinese flying man Su Bingtian, who has advanced to the final?
Become the biggest attraction of the track and field on that day.
Data map: Chinese player Gong Lijiao.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo
In the Women's Shot Put Qualifying Tournament on the 30th, all three Chinese women qualified.
Among them, Gong Lijiao's first shot of 19.46 meters far exceeded the mark.
Gong Lijiao, a two-time World Championship champion, is expected to win her first Olympic gold medal in her fourth Olympic journey.
On the evening of July 31st, the first round of the men's 100-meter race in the Tokyo Olympic Games was held. Chinese athlete Su Bingtian ran a time of 10.05 seconds, ranking second in the group and successfully advancing.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
In the men's 100m preliminaries on the 31st, Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian entered the semifinals with 10 seconds 05.
Su Bingtian, who was once ranked third in the world, suffered a severe back injury in the second half of 2019, and his state and performance declined rapidly.
Now that he is still in a recovery period, whether he can make it through the semifinals and what kind of results he will create is worthy of attention.
There will be 5 gold medals in the men's and women's 50m freestyle, men's and women's 4×100m medley relay and men's 1500m freestyle on the swimming final day.
The Chinese team will continue to hit medals in two relay events.
In the 4×100m medley relay preliminaries, the Chinese men's team ranked fourth and the women's team advanced to the eighth.
In the finals, both teams will launch an impact on the medals. Zhang Yufei, who has won 2 gold and 1 silver, will go into battle again.
In the women's 50m freestyle semi-finals on the 30th, Zhang Yufei, teammate, and 18-year-old Wu Qingfeng all swam out of 24 seconds and 32 ranked fourth in the group. They need to compete for a seat in the final through an extra match.
In the end, Zhang Yufei gave up pk, and Wu Qingfeng advanced to the final with eighth in the semi-finals.
Diving is expected to win gold and silver badminton women's singles championship
The diving arena will start from August 1st in the finals of 4 single events, and the gold medal in the women's three-meter springboard will be produced on the first day.
Shi Tingmao and Wang Han, who jointly won the springboard double champion, swept the top two in the preliminaries and will become opponents in the final.
On July 25, local time, the women's double three-meter diving final of the Tokyo Olympics was held at the Tokyo Aquatic Center. Chinese combination Shi Tingmao and Wang Han won the gold medal with 326.40 points.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
This time the Chinese team won the championship without major problems, the only suspense is the final destination of the gold medal.
Badminton will produce the gold medal in women's singles.
Defending champion Marin's absence due to injury has made the competition for the Tokyo Olympic women's singles champion even more intense.
In the Chinese badminton team, the women's singles gold enthusiasm is second only to mixed doubles.
Unfortunately, Chinese player Chen Yufei and He Bingjiao met in the semi-finals ahead of schedule, and Chen Yufei defeated her teammate 2:1 to advance.
In the final, Chen Yufei, ranked second in the world, will face Dai Ziying, the world's number one, Chinese Taipei star.
On July 31, in the semi-finals of the Tokyo Olympics badminton women's singles, Chinese player Chen Yufei defeated Chinese player He Bingjiao 2:1 to advance to the final.
The picture shows Chen Yufei in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
The badminton men's singles semi-finals will also be held on the same day. Chen Long, the only defending champion in the Olympic badminton arena, will compete with Indonesian star Jin Ting for the final.
The individual gymnastics finals are in full swing. On August 1st, there will be 4 gold medals in men's floor exercise, men's pommel horse, women's vault and women's uneven bars.
Fan Yilin, a two-time World Championship champion and participating in the Olympics for the second time, will strive to win the first gold medal for the Chinese gymnastics team in this Olympics.
On the same day, the table tennis field will start the team competition 1/8 finals.
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