China's swimming performance has dropped significantly for the first time in 19 years for male players to fail
Three years ago at the Gwangju World Swimming Championships in South Korea, the Chinese swimming team won 3 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes. Although it is not the best in the history of the World Championships, it is still a passable result.
In particular, the three gold medals were all from male players, belonging to Sun Yang and Xu Jiayu respectively.
However, at the World Championships in Budapest, the Chinese navy's performance dropped to only one gold medal, and four bronze medals, all of which came from female players.
Since the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, the Chinese men's swimming event has once again fallen into the embarrassment of no medals in the past 19 years.
Compared with the last World Championships and last year's Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team's regression is obvious, and there are many reasons.
This is also the first time the Chinese swimming team has participated in an international competition since the Tokyo Olympics last year.
There have been no competitions for more than 9 months. Basically, except for the long vacation after the National Games, the swimming pools in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other bases are grouped to close and practice hard.
The lack of the feeling of competition and the closed life and training places will adversely affect the sports state and mood of the athletes.
This time I went to Budapest to participate in the competition, and did not use the previous national championship and world championship selection competition. Due to well-known reasons, the selection competition originally scheduled to be held in Shangyu, Zhejiang was cancelled. The list of starting players can only be based on the results of the National Games in Shaanxi. , and the status of daily training as a reference.
This is a very normal season, but also a helpless season.
In addition, the state of some outstanding players of the Chinese swimming team has declined, and the training is not systematic. There must be subjective factors. It is difficult to expect athletes to perform in the world competition after a long period of time.
In the men's event, with Wang Shun and Xu Jiayu's failures in their respective main events, the Chinese men's swimming team failed in this World Championships. The best result was Pan Zhanle's fourth place in the men's 100m freestyle final.
The team lacks stable athletes with the highest level in the world. This is the current situation of Chinese men's swimming, which must be faced.
Of course, if you look at it from a positive point of view, there are still bright spots in Budapest's swimming pools.
For example, Pan Zhanle, a 18-year-old male freestyle swimmer, has improved rapidly. Tang Qianting, a girl of the same age from Shanghai, has made significant progress in the short-distance breaststroke. Yang Junxuan, a Shandong girl who is not afraid of hardships and hardships, has opened up a new century for the Chinese swimming team. The door to the world championships in the women's freestyle.
There is also "model worker" Zhang Yufei. Although she did not have a gold medal, she overcame the difficulties and fatigue of intensive and frequent competitions. She made 15 appearances in the 7-day competition and reached the podium 3 times. This all-round performance is commendable.
Text/Reporter Liu Ailin