Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 11 (Reporters Wu Junkuan and Wang Qinou) According to the Chinese Athletics Association, the 2023 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships will start in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on the 10th.
On the first day of competition, the Chinese team won 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Among them, Fang Yaoqing won the men's triple jump championship and set a new personal best result.
A total of 5 gold medals were produced on the first day of the competition. In the men's triple jump final, 26-year-old Fang Yaoqing took the lead with his second jump of 17.20 meters and set a new personal best result.
In the whole competition, Fang Yaoqing was the only player who broke through 17 meters. In the last three rounds, he chose not to jump, and finally won the championship with 17.20 meters.
Another Chinese player, Su Wen, ranked fourth with a score of 16.68 meters.
In the women's 3000m race, He Wuxia of the Chinese team won the silver medal with a time of 9:03.43, and Kazakhstan's Kip Kirui won the championship with a time of 9:01.98.
In the men's shot put competition, Chen Xiaodong of the Chinese team won the bronze medal with 18.85 meters, and two Indian players won the championship and runner-up.
Among the other Chinese players who played that day, Gu Xiaofei and Fan Tianrui passed the preliminaries and semi-finals in the men's 400m race and entered the final.
Zhang Mingkun ranked fourth in the men's long jump qualifying competition with a score of 7.66 meters and advanced to the final.
Teenagers Huang Ziting and Liu Guoyi failed to advance to the women's 60m final. Li Junlin in the men's 800m and Liu Yinglan in the women's 400m also stopped in the preliminaries.
The Asian Indoor Athletics Championships will last for three days.
The Chinese team sent more than half of the young lineup of "post-00s" to participate in the competition, aiming to train the team and accumulate experience for the competition.