In the 2024 Paris Olympics - swimming event, in the early morning of August 1, the women's 1500m freestyle final was staged, and Li Bingjie, a member of the Chinese swimming team, hit the medal. In this fierce competition, Li Bingjie did not play outstandingly, finishing fifth with a time of 16:01.03, and United States' Ledecky won the gold medal and set a new Olympic record.
Women's 1500m - Final
Gold Medal: Ledecky [United States]
Silver Medal: Kirpichnikova [France]
Bronze medal: Isabel · Götzer [Germany]
Li Bingjie, 22, was born in Baoding, Hebei Province, and competed in the Olympics for the second time in her career. In the last Olympic Games, Li Bingjie won 1 gold and 1 bronze, including a bronze medal in the women's 400m freestyle and a relay gold medal; In this Olympic Games, Li Bingjie had a bad start, and she had failed to swim in the final in the women's 400 meters. Coming to the women's 1500 free event, Li Bingjie's performance in the preliminaries was not bad, but Li Bingjie's performance in the finals was not good, and she was thrown away early, and the gap was relatively large.
Event record: The world record holder in the women's 1500m freestyle event is United States star Ledecky, who swam 15:20.48 in the United States Series in 2018. The Olympic record holder is also Ledecky, who swam 15:35.35 at Tokyo 2020. The Asian record holder is China's Wang Jian Jiahe, who swam 15:41.49 at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Review of the preliminaries: The Chinese swimming team sent Li Bingjie and Gao Weizhong to compete in this event, Li Bingjie was in the same group as Ledecky in the preliminaries, swimming 16:05.26 to rank second in the group, and advanced to the final with an overall ranking of 6th. Gao Weizhong's results in the preliminaries were not outstanding enough, swimming 16:27.11, ranking 13th overall and missing the final.
Finalists: Li Bingjie in lane 7 in the final, Brazil's Dizzotti in lane 1, Australia's Mosha · Johnson in lane 2, France's Kirpichnikova in lane 3, United States' Ledecky in lane 4, Italy's Cuadarella in lane 5, Germany's Isabel · Gezer in lane 6, Germany's Mertens in lane 8.
Venue: Paris-La Défense Arena
Final Results
At the start of the race, Li Bingjie started with a reaction time of 0.68 seconds, ranked fifth in 1:01.15 to reach the 100 meters, ranked sixth in 2:05.69 to reach the 200 meters, and still ranked sixth in 3:10.27 to reach the 300 meters. After that, Li Bingjie swam to the 500m and still ranked sixth, with a time of 5:18.98, and led the 500m by Ledecky with a time of 5:06.71.
After that, Li Bingjie reached the 800m with a time of 8:31.88, still ranked sixth. He reached the 1000m in 10:40.07 and moved up to fifth. He reached the 1200m in 12:48.92, still in sixth place. Li Bingjie was always in the fifth place, and finally finished the race with a time of 16:01.03.
Ledecky won gold with a time of 15:30.02, breaking her own Olympic record. In addition, France's Kirpichinikova won silver in 15:40.35 and Germany's Isabel · Geze won bronze in 15:41.16.