In the early morning of August 4, Beijing time, the Paris Olympics ended the eighth day of the intensive competition schedule, and the competition schedule was more than halfway through. Among the 29 gold medals produced on the day, the Chinese delegation won three gold medals in the women's event. Among them, Zheng Qinwen defeated Croatia's Vikic in straight sets in the tennis women's singles final, creating the history of Chinese tennis.
This is the first time that a Chinese athlete has appeared in the tennis singles final of the Olympic Games, and Zheng Qinwen, who played as the No. 6 seed, played at a super high level in the previous qualifying round. In the final, China's Jinhua defeated Vekic 6-2, 6-3 after 1 hour and 44 minutes of hard fighting, and achieved a breakthrough again exactly 20 years after Li Ting/Sun Tiantian won the first Olympic gold medal in Chinese tennis. It is worth mentioning that the venue of this Olympic Games, Roland Garros, is also the "blessed land" for Li Na to win the first Grand Slam singles championship for Chinese tennis.
On the same day, the Chinese team also won two gold medals that had been locked in advance. In the table tennis women's singles final, Chen Meng, who was relatively unoptimistic before the game, "copied" the process of the final of the last Olympic Games, and reversed the world No. 1 Sun Yingsha 4-2 after losing one game first, becoming the third table tennis women's singles player in history to successfully defend her title. In the badminton women's doubles final, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan saved four game points in the first game and defeated rookie Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning 2-0, changing the color of the silver medal from the previous session. In addition, the badminton women's singles field also staged a "Chinese Derby", He Bingjiao eliminated the defending champion Chen Yufei 2-0, and entered the top 4 in two consecutive Olympic Games.
In the mixed 4×100m relay final, the Chinese team composed of Xu Jiayu, Qin Haiyang, Zhang Yufei and Yang Junxuan competed fiercely with the United States team, and finally set a new Asian record in 3:37.55, but was 0.12 seconds behind the United States team, winning the runner-up in two consecutive Olympic Games, and the United States team won the gold with a world record.
In addition, Chinese women's boxers continued to soar in the day's competition, Wu Yu and Yang Liu both reached the semifinals to secure a medal, and Yang Wenlu won in the semifinals and will compete for gold in the early morning of the 7th Beijing time. The Chinese women's basketball team also beat Puerto Rico in the final group game, ranking third in the group with 1 win and 2 losses, and whether they can advance will have to wait for the results of the other group.
On the same day, the track and field competition continued, and Chinese sprinter Xie Zhenye ranked fourth in the men's 100m preliminaries with a time of 10.16 seconds, and unfortunately exited by 0.001 seconds. After the competition day, the Chinese delegation has won 16 golds, 12 silvers and 9 bronzes, still ranking first in the gold medal table.
Source: Beijing Daily client
Reporter: Wang Xiaoxiao
Process Editor: U022