The Chinese Huayou team celebrates winning the championship after learning the results. Photo: Xinhua News Agency.
Beijing News (Reporter Zhou Xiao) On February 6, Beijing time, in the Doha Swimming World Championships synchronized swimming collective technical self-selection final, the Chinese Huayou team continued its amazing performance since the start of the competition, with 2998712 points to win gold. Spain won the silver medal and Japan won the third place.
The first place Chinese team in the preliminaries finally appeared in the finals, Feng Yu, Chang Hao, Wang Ciyue, Zhang Yayi, Wang Liuyi, Wang Qianyi, Xiao Yanning, and Xiang Xuanxuan 8 girls jointly performed "Fast and Furious". In the whole set of movements, the speed and strength of the girls are perfectly displayed, and in the modern soundtrack, the synchronicity of the Chinese team is even more amazing, like the same person's "copy + paste". In the end, each difficult action declared by the Chinese team was recognized by the referee with 299won the championship with 8,712 points and won the fourth gold in synchronized swimming at this World Championships.
Since winning the gold medal in synchronized swimming collective technique selection for the first time at the 2022 World Championships in Budapest, the Chinese synchronized swimming team has experienced the joy of breaking through history, but also suffered setbacks. The new rules implemented at the beginning of 2023 cost the Chinese team at last year's World Championships in Fukuoka - because the last two difficult moves were not approved by the judges, the Chinese team who advanced first in the preliminaries only finished seventh in the final. After experiencing setbacks, in-depth study of the new rules, and daily hard training and sharpening skills, the Chinese team "regained lost ground" in Doha and once again stood on the top podium of the event, making up for the regrets of the previous session.
The girls performed well at this World Championships. Photo: Xinhua News Agency.
The journey to winning the championship in this tournament was not easy, and it can be clearly seen in the final that Xiao Yanning is still wrapped in thick bandages on his hands. She injured her hand on the last day of training before the World Championships, and she was an important position in the team's high-scoring lift. Chang Hao and Feng Yu were also injured, and Chang Hao, who had a crotch strain, couldn't even lift his legs when he was at the most seriously injured.
Under the unfavorable situation that the main players were plagued by injuries, the Chinese Huayou team won the collective skill selection and collective technology selection championships, which was the reason why the head coach Zhang Xiaohuan was moved, "I was particularly moved by the strength of the whole team to show unity. ”
Compared with the World Championships in Fukuoka, Zhang Xiaohuan believes that the team's ability to regain the championship lies in overcoming itself. She admitted frankly that at last year's World Championships, the Chinese team did not understand the rules and prepare for the game enough, and it was not perfect, and two strings of actions were punished and fell to seventh place. 'It was a difficult moment for the team and it was hard for a lot of players to accept. But we have to embrace and adapt to the new rules, and it is true that our movements are still lacking, and everyone continues to train and improve in response to the problems. This time, we kept the two moves that we were penalized in the last competition, hoping to test the results of the training, and in the end we won against ourselves. Zhang Xiaohuan said.
Edited by Wang Chunqiu.
Proofread by Diyan Chen.