The National Swimming Championships has just ended, and as the selection for the World Championships in Doha, all the famous swimmers have basically arrived, including Yu Hexin, Wang Lizhuo and other players who are basically in a state of retirement.
But only one of the top women's backstrokers is missing, who also won the 50m backstroke at this year's Asian Games in Hangzhou.
She is Guangdong player Wang Xueer, born in 1998, Wang Xueer is also a senior player in the Chinese swimming world. As early as 2014, he participated in the Incheon Asian Games. In the last two years, he has been in great form and has won the opportunity to participate in this year's World Championships.
In the semifinals of the women's 50m backstroke, Wang Xueer and Wan Lotian had the same results, and they were tied for 8th place. In the play-off, Wang Xueer won with 012 seconds narrowly defeated Wan Lotte and entered the final.
In the women's 50-meter backstroke final of the Hangzhou Asian Games in September, Wang Xueer competed with Wan Lotian for the championship again, and finally Wang Xueer defeated Wan Lotian again by virtue of her starting advantage.
In the post-00s Chinese swimming scene, which has completely become the mainstream, a veteran like Wang Xueer who is still persisting is very admirable, defeating an opponent who is seven years younger. However, in the preliminaries of the women's 4x100m medley relay at the Asian Games, Wang Xueer came on the court in the first backstroke, and was judged to have committed a foul due to the jump, which led to the Chinese team missing the medley relay championship, which also became the only relay gold medal lost by the Chinese women's swimming in the Hangzhou Asian Games.
In fact, Wang Xueer didn't need to be in a hurry at that time, Chinese women's swimming had no opponents in Asia, not to mention that it was only a preliminaries. Even if you start slowly, you can still make it to the finals. However, due to fouls, the opportunity to win the gold medal in the women's relay swimming at the Asian Games was missed. In the days of the Asian Games, due to high fever, Zhang Yufei's state was affected to a certain extent.
But he still won 6 gold medals and won the MVP of the Asian Games that he had been dreaming of, which was the same as the 6 gold medals of Rikako Ikee in 2018. With the addition of this originally ironclad gold medal, Zhang Yufei's number of gold medals can reach 7, tied for the most gold medals in a single Asian Games in history.
Although swimming is mostly an individual sport, in the relay is definitely about teamwork. The Chinese swimming team has had many foul lessons in the relay, including the 2019 World Championships preliminaries, where breaststroker Wang Lizhuo fouled and the Chinese team was disqualified. Wang Lizhuo has barely competed since then, but returned to competition this year.
Wang Xueer is also the third player in our women's backstroke to swim within 59 seconds in the 100-meter backstroke after Fu Yuanhui and Zhao Jing. If Wang Xueer returns, it will also be a good thing for the women's backstroke.
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