Qingdao, March 3 (Reporter Hao Lingyu) At the National Spring Swimming Championships held on the 20th, Ye Shiwen and Fu Yuanhui successfully passed the preliminary round of the project reported on the day and successfully advanced. The two famous swimmers competed with a group of "post-20s" young players in order to win a place in the Hangzhou Asian Games and strive for good results in the international competitions on their doorstep.
Ye Shiwen and Fu Yuanhui participated in the women's 200m individual medley and women's 50m backstroke heats respectively that morning. As the Asian record holder in the women's 200m individual medley, Ye Shiwen did not face a strong competitor in the group, taking the top spot in the group with a time of 2:15.91, finishing second out of 85 in the heats to advance to the final. In the final, she will face the challenge of "post-00s" young player Yu Yiting. The latter won the gold medal at the 2021 Shaanxi National Games by beating Ye Shiwen.
After the competition, Ye Shiwen said that at present, her academic pressure is not small, she often has classes in the morning, and she can only spare two hours to swim in the afternoon, and the real systematic training has only been carried out for more than a month. Her purpose in this competition was to test the results of her preparations, and she was quite satisfied with the results of the preliminary round. This season, Ye Shiwen's goal is to win a place in the Hangzhou Asian Games through trials and achieve the goal of winning the Asian Games gold medal on her doorstep.
Fu Yuanhui in the women's 50m backstroke heats Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Gang
Also holding the same idea is the "Flood Wilderness Girl" Fu Yuanhui. In the women's 50m backstroke heats, she finished fourth in the heats with a time of 28.46 seconds to advance to the final. Fu Yuanhui, who has not participated in the competition for more than a year, continues to suffer from old injuries and has just begun to recover this year. Talking about the opponents, she laughed: "Many children who swim together don't know each other, and many even call me aunt." ”
Fu Yuanhui said that the Hangzhou Asian Games will be the Asian Games "on her doorstep" in the true sense of the word, "less than ten minutes from my home." "In this competition, her main goal is to try her best to compete for a place in the Hangzhou Asian Games. (End)