On April 8, 2024, CCTV broadcast "Moving China 2023 Person of the Year", and swimmer Zhang Yufei won this award!
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► Character introduction
Zhang Yufei, the queen of Chinese swimming, 25 years old, was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1998, is 176cm tall, and graduated from Nanjing University of Physical Education and Southeast University. Chinese female swimmer, an international-level athlete, plays for the Chinese national swimming team and Jiangsu Sifang swimming team.
► Awards
In July 2023, Zhang Yufei teamed up with her teammates to win the third place in the women's 4×100 freestyle relay at the World Championships in Fukuoka and broke the Asian record.
On July 24, Zhang Yufei won the women's 100-meter butterfly championship at the World Championships.
On July 29, she won the silver medal in the women's 50m butterfly final at the World Championships with a time of 25.05 seconds, while breaking the Asian record.
On July 30, Zhang Yufei won bronze in the women's 50-meter freestyle and won her fifth medal at the World Championships.
In the Chengdu Universiade in August, Zhang Yufei won gold medals in 9 events, including the 4×100m freestyle relay and the women's 50m butterfly.
At the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in September, Zhang Yufei won the gold medal in the women's 200-meter butterfly, the women's 4x100 freestyle relay, the women's 100-meter butterfly gold medal in swimming, the gold medal in the mixed 4×100-meter relay, and the gold medal in the women's 50-meter freestyle.
In 2023 alone, she won 23 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 2 bronze medals. Therefore, netizens laughed at her: winning the award is like buying goods!
► Character experience
Zhang Yufei's parents are swimming coaches, Zhang Yufei learned to swim with his mother at the age of 3, and showed excellent swimming talent when she was a child, in 2009 she was 11 years old, participated in a children's competition in Jiangsu Province for the first time, won a double championship, and was selected by the Jiangsu Provincial Swimming Team in 2010 to become the youngest member of the professional team in Jiangsu Province.
In 2013, he was selected for the national team, and under the strict supervision of coach Liu Haitao, Zhang Yufei's swimming skills improved by leaps and bounds.
2014 National Swimming Championships and Games Trials. Won the bronze medal in the women's 50m butterfly final!
Zhang Yufei days scoliosis, mentioned in the "Moving China" column, scoliosis has a particularly great impact on butterfly, because it will cause loss of balance during butterfly stroke. If you want to overcome this, you have to put in more effort! Zhang Yufei recounted that when he first started practicing, he felt his muscles very sore when he slept every night, as if they were burning!
Zhang Yufei won the light in 2023, participating in large and small competitions, on average every 4 days, when the host asked her: "Are you tired", tears came out of her eyes instantly, she said: Very tired. The host asked her again: "Why don't you refuse?" I remember that she said something that made people cry at that time: There are some things that can be refused, but there are some things that cannot be refused, and there is no way to refuse! She said that there is only one word on her shoulders to shoulder the responsibility of the state!
Who said that women are inferior to men, many times they can also do wonderful! They always let their weak bodies dedicate everything when the country needs them! I also wish her to go further and better on the road in the future!