From December 3rd to 6th, the 2023 Xuhui District Youth 1,000-person Swimming Competition was successfully held at the Xuhui Natatorium. More than 1,000 young people from primary school and kindergarten participated in the swimming competition.
In the pool, many children who have just learned to swim are young and lack Xi competition experience, but they swim meticulously, always grit their teeth, chase after them, and their movements in the water are also very dexterous and standardized, and they complete the competition in an orderly and smooth manner. It is understood that Xuhui District has held many youth amateur swimming competitions before, aiming to increase the popularity of youth swimming and lay a better foundation for the selection of youth swimming reserve talents in Xuhui District.
At present, after exploration, we have basically covered the scope of participation in all primary schools and kindergartens in the district, with more than 1,000 participants. Ling Jidong, vice principal of Xuhui District Youth Sports School, said that this is also the origin of the name of the competition.
Swimming in Xuhui District has always been a "golden signboard". In the 17th Municipal Games last year, the total number of medals in the swimming event of the Xuhui team was 275 gold 275 Silver 1425 Bronze, with a total team score of 9895 points, the total number of gold medals and the total score of the team are among the top in the city. In recent years, the coaches of the Xuhui District swimming team have been continuously optimized, and a group of young coaches have emergedOn the basis of the head and deputy coaches, the school has improved the training mode and established a swimming "four-line" sports team, which has laid the foundation for the sustainable development of swimming projects.
The young contestants in this competition are children from the Xuhui District Swimming "Fourth Line" sports team. Ling Jidong introduced that the so-called "four-line" swimming team is to expand the training scale of swimming talents on the basis of the original junior sports school team, and select talents from the "four-line" sports team, so that the original junior sports school enrollment scope can be further expanded.
Xuhui District Sports Bureau.