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Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Wei Chaoran reported: The 2021 National Swimming Championships and Tokyo Olympic Trials entered the penultimate competition yesterday, two Guangdong famous players Liu Xiang and Yu Hexin competed in the main 50-meter freestyle together, and as a result, Yu Hexin swam a good time of 21.83 seconds in the men's 50-meter freestyle preliminaries, only 0.04 seconds away from the national record he held; Liu Xiang failed to inspire good form, ranking third in the preliminaries with 24.71 seconds.
Yu Hexin broke the national record in the men's 50m freestyle at the National Swimming Championships last year. This year, he played average in the men's 100m freestyle, finishing only fourth and being in questionable form. However, in the men's 50m freestyle that he is better at, Yu Hexin used a large margin of results to prove that he was still the "king" of the project, and the Olympic Games were not far away from him.
In the 50-meter preliminary round, Yu Hexin appeared in the last group, and after entering the water, he gained a clear advantage, and finally won the first place in the preliminary round with a time of 21.83 seconds, while breaking through the Olympic a-mark of 22.01 seconds. Among all the contestants participating in the preliminary round, only Yu Hexin broke through the 22-second mark, and the second place was another Guangdong player, Huang Junyi, with a time of 22.63 seconds.
The preliminaries almost broke the national record, and it is worth looking forward to what kind of performance Yu Hexin can perform in the semi-finals and finals.
Another Guangdong star, Liu Xiang, came on, but she failed to defend her dominance in the women's 50m freestyle like Yu Hexin. Although she ranked first in the group, her 24.71 seconds was still far from her peak level, and such a result was difficult to resist the impact of Zhang Yufei, who was in full swing - Zhang Yufei, who played in the last group, swam 24.41 seconds strongly and won the first place in the preliminaries. Zhejiang's Wu Qingfeng swam 24.70 seconds to rank second, and Liu Xiang ranked third with a disadvantage of 0.01 seconds.
However, the game is not over, liu xiang still has a chance to prove his strength. In the preliminary round, Liu Xiang's departure was not handled too well, and there was still room for improvement.
Yesterday, a number of sports finals were also held, Wang Shun won the men's 200m individual medley "ten crowns"; Xu Jiayu won nine consecutive championships in the men's 200m backstroke final; the women's 100m freestyle final, four athletes reached the Olympic a-standard, Yang Junxuan won the Olympic a-standard in 53.21 seconds; in the women's 200-meter breaststroke final, Beijing's Yu Jingyao won the championship in 2 minutes 25.27 seconds and reached the Olympic a-standard, and although Olympic champion Ye Shiwen won the second place, he failed to achieve the olympic a-standard in 2 minutes 27.54 seconds In the men's 100m butterfly semifinals, Guangdong's Chen Jun'er ranked second, and Hubei's Sun Jiajun ranked first.