National Swimming Championships: Zhang Yufei’s first place in 50m freestyle advanced to the finals – Sports – China Engineering Network

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National Swimming Championships: Zhang Yufei advances to the finals in 50m freestyle

China News Service, Jinan, December 11 (Guoxuan) The 2023 National Swimming Championships will continue in Jinan, Shandong on the 11th. Zhang Yufei swam 24.82 seconds in the women’s 50-meter freestyle preliminaries, ranking first and advancing to the finals.

The second competition day kicked off with the women’s 50-meter freestyle preliminaries. Zhang Yufei advanced to the finals with a time of 24.82 seconds.

On that day, Jinan was covered with snow. Zhang Yufei expressed her gratitude to the audience: “It snowed so much today, and everyone came thousands of miles to watch (the game). I am really grateful to everyone.”

In the preliminaries of the women’s 100-meter breaststroke, Ye Shiwen ranked second with a time of 1:07.44 and advanced to the finals. “It feels a little worse than I expected because I have gone all out this morning.” After the game, Ye Shiwen said that he has recently strengthened aerobic training. Compared with breaststroke, freestyle training is more, hoping to take this opportunity to compete. Power leveling. “I saw that Brother Shun (Wang Shun) has set a new best score again. I hope I can also set a new score tonight.”

On December 11, in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke preliminaries of the 2023 National Swimming Championships held in Jinan, Shandong Province, Ye Shiwen ranked second in the finals with a time of 1 minute, 07 seconds and 44. The picture shows Ye Shiwen being interviewed by the media after the game.Photo by Guoxuan

In the men’s event, backstroke star Xu Jiayu swam 55.55 seconds in the men’s 100-meter backstroke preliminaries, ranking third and advancing to the finals held in the evening. In the men’s 400-meter freestyle preliminaries held the day before, Xu Jiayu ranked tenth with a time of 3:58.99 and missed the final. He said that when registering for this competition, he hoped to try different muscles and test the training results.

Returning to the main event, Xu Jiayu performed steadily. In an interview with the media after the game, he also admitted that he had retained his strength in the morning’s preliminaries.

Veteran Wang Shun also participated in the men’s 100m backstroke preliminaries on the same day. He advanced to the finals in second place with a time of 55.49 seconds. Heilongjiang teenager Wang Gu Kailai ranked first in the preliminaries with a time of 55.09 seconds.

In the men’s 200-meter freestyle preliminaries, Shandong’s Ji Xinjie and Zhang Zhanshuo took the top two places with times of 1:48.39 and 1:48.84 respectively. 16-year-old Zhang Zhanshuo won the gold medal in yesterday’s men’s 400-meter freestyle final with a time of 3:45.11, reaching the Olympic A standard and setting a new personal best. This also means that he is expected to win his first gold medal in February next year. Participate in the World Championships.

“When you step off the podium, everything starts from scratch. Keep your feet on the ground and don’t be proud.” Zhang Zhanshuo said after the game. This year he participated in many competitions such as the National Swimming Championships and the World Youth Swimming Championships. He hopes to use competitions as training and accumulate more experience. experience to prepare for subsequent large-scale events.