Olympic Champion Xu Shixiao/Sun Mengya Kayak World Cup Czech Station Gold
2022-05-24 16:42:02
Source: Xinhuanet
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According to the official website of the International Canoeing Federation, the Canoeing Quiet Water World Cup in Lazice, Czech Republic ended on the 22nd local time. The Chinese team won 3 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes. The Tokyo Olympic champion Sun Mengya teamed up with Xu Shixiao and Liu Hao to win the women’s double row. The champion of the 500-meter rowing boat and the 500-meter mixed double rowing boat, the teenager Li Li won the women’s single-person rowing 5000-meter champion.
As in the Tokyo Olympics, the Olympic champion partners Xu Shixiao and Sun Mengya maintained their strong strength. They won the World Cup women’s 500-meter double rowing competition with a time of 1:53.64, more than the second Cuban player. 3 seconds 66 faster, a huge advantage.
“During the (Tokyo) Olympics, I had some shoulder injuries, but now I’m completely fine.” Xu Shixiao said, “We are very satisfied with today’s game. Since the end of the Olympics, our special training was not very good for personal reasons. System, but in terms of physical fitness, according to the requirements and deployment of the association, our physical fitness reserves throughout the winter training are very solid, so that we have enough confidence to complete the competition with the main Olympic opponents in today’s competition. From the preliminaries to the finals, as a whole, We have set the stage for Paris (the Olympics) very well.”
The second gold medal of the Chinese team came from Liu Hao and Sun Mengya’s mixed double rowing 500m event. Mixed events were rare in previous events. “It’s very interesting,” said Liu Hao, the runner-up in the men’s double rowing 1000m at the Tokyo Olympics. Although he and Sun Mengya easily won the championship with a time of 1:45.42, Liu Hao said that they had not conducted much targeted training before, and they might win the championship by relying on their own strength. Liu Hao and his Tokyo Olympic partner Zheng Pengfei scored 1:38.24 in the men’s double rowing 500-meter race, ranking fourth.
The third gold medal for the Chinese team came from 17-year-old Li Li, who won the women’s single rowing 5000m championship with a time of 25:06.68. She also won a bronze medal in the 1000m single rowing. In this World Cup, the Chinese team sent a group of teenagers who entered the national training team following the National Games to participate in the competition, aiming to increase the game experience and feel the atmosphere of the competition. Li Li is one of them.
In addition, in the women’s double rowing 200m competition, Lin Wenjun/Shuai Changwen won the silver medal, and Lin Wenjun also won the silver medal in the single 200m rowing competition. Wang Nan/Sun Yuewen/Yang Luan/Chen Lingya won the bronze medal in the women’s four-person kayak 500m competition.
Label:rowing; Liu Hao; Chinese team; Olympic Games; Li Li; Tokyo; partner
edit: Wei Wenjing
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