IAAF Intercontinental Tour Greece: Fang Yaoqing wins another silver medal with his best result of the season
2022-05-27 16:20:52Source: Xi’an News Network
The IAAF Intercontinental Tour in Kallithea, Greece, staged various exciting competitions on May 25. In the men’s triple jump arena, Shaanxi star Fang Yaoqing performed well following winning the silver medal in Italy in the last competition. Received a silver medal and created a personal best record of the season. Another Chinese player, the runner-up of the Tokyo Olympics, Zhu Yaming, won the championship with a jump of 17.22 meters (+0.7 m/s) in the third round, which can rank third in the world this year. In addition, Chinese athlete Lu Jiawen won the tie in the women’s high jump with 1.91 meters. She also created her own best result of the season, and 1.91 meters was only 1 centimeter away from her personal best.
The IAAF Intercontinental Tour in Kallithea, Greece, is also known as the “International Jumping Games”, attracting many experts to participate. In the men’s triple jump final, a total of 7 players participated, including Fang Yaoqing and Zhu Yaming. In the previous competition in Grosseto, Italy, they won the silver and bronze medals with 16.81 meters and 16.80 meters respectively. In this game, Zhu Yaming’s state has rebounded significantly. In his five trial jumps, three of his results exceeded 17 meters, 17.22 meters, 17.18 meters and 17.10 meters respectively. In the end, Zhu Yaming won the championship in this competition. Although his 17.22-meter result is quite different from the 17.57-meter he jumped in last year’s Olympic Games, it is still enough to rank third in the world in the men’s triple jump this season. Fang Yaoqing scored 17.01 meters in the Tokyo Olympics last year and finally ranked 8th. In the 14th National Games, he won a silver medal with a score of 17.04 meters at home. This time in Greece, two Chinese athletes swept the gold and silver medals in the men’s triple jump at the “International Jumping Games”, which made many sports fans praise “China Power”.
In the women’s high jump final, China’s “post-00” rookie Lu Jiawen competed with 11 other athletes. Lu Jiawen took off from a height of 1.80 meters, passed the pole once at heights of 1.80 meters and 1.84 meters, and succeeded in the second attempt at the height of 1.88 meters. The crossbar rose to 1.91 meters. The Chinese girl played well and successfully passed the bar once. In the end, she won the tie for the championship with this result. The campaign also conquered 1.91 meters, as well as Lithuania’s Bai Kestai Ya and Sweden’s Maya Nielsen.
Text/Xi’an Newspaper All-Media Reporter Jin Pengtu/Provided by Shaanxi Athletics Association
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