On the morning of September 12, Xin Xin from Jinan, Shandong Province, won the gold medal in the 14th National Games Marathon Swimming Women's 10 km Race, which was the ninth gold medal of the Shandong delegation at the National Games and the third consecutive gold medal won by Xin Xin in the National Games.
From Jinan to the world, and then from the Olympic Games back to the national games, Xin Xin swam in the familiar arena, swimming more than 1 hour 57 minutes 00 seconds 03 seconds of his personal Olympic performance. Marathon swim women's 10 km, also known as open water swimming women's 10 km, is an extremely test of endurance and heart. At the same time, it is also a project with a longer career. Xin Xin, 24 years old, will have a broader competitive stage after the three golds in the National Games.
<b>From Jinan to the world</b>
Xin Xin is an authentic Jinan girl. Born in 1996, she was once a front-line fighter in the middle and long distance of the domestic swimming world. After the transformation of open water, Xin Xin has achieved many good results.
In 2002, at the age of 6, Xin Xin came to Jinan Huangting Sports Primary School to learn to swim. In 2011, Xin Xin made a name for himself at the Seven Cities Conference in Nanchang and was dug into the Shandong Provincial Swimming Team.
In the 2012 National Swimming Championships, Xin Xin won the women's 400-meter freestyle runner-up and the 800-meter freestyle champion. At the 2013 Liaoning National Games, Xin Xin won the women's 800m freestyle final with a record-breaking Asian record, which was also her first National Games gold medal.
The state is like a day in the sky, but Xin Xin chose to transform at the time of the most achievements. In 2013, she resolutely came to the open water women's 10 km project to reclaim the wilderness. So far, this girl, who was born in Jinan and practiced in Jinan, has developed in freestyle and marathon swimming amphibious development, and won a number of gold medals in domestic events.
In 2016, Xin Xin finished fourth in the women's 10 km open water swimming women's 10 km final at the Rio Olympics, ranking fourth, which means that she has officially stepped onto the world stage.
After going to the world, Xin Xin made a name for himself in his hometown of Daming Lake. In May 2019, the Women's 10km Race of the National Marathon Swimming Championships and World Championships Trials was held in Daming Lake, and Xin Xin successfully defended the title with a time of 2 hours 03 minutes and 33 seconds 09 seconds. She not only won the championship at her doorstep, but also got tickets to the World Championships at her doorstep.
Three months later, on July 14, Xin Xin won the open water women's 10 km race at the 2019 Gwangju World Swimming Championships. Xin Xin, a girl in Jinan, finally swam from Daming Lake in her hometown to the top of the world.
<b>From the Olympics to the National Games</b>
Xin Xin has participated in two Olympic Games, one in Rio in 2016 and one in Tokyo in 2021. In 2016, she was only one medal away, and she had already swam the best result achieved by the Chinese athletes in this event at that time. In 2021, due to water quality and the surrounding environment, Xinxin's performance was not as good as before, ranking only eighth.
After the trip to the Tokyo Olympics, Xin Xin admitted that he was "a little disappointed" with his performance, but the result was acceptable. After just over a month of adjustment, Xin Xin once again stepped onto the national games and fulfilled her vow of "being better than the National Games".
Compared with the Olympic games, the national games are more familiar to Xin Xin. As the leader of the domestic women's marathon swimming event, Xin Xin has absolute dominance in the domestic project. Twelve and thirteen games, Xin Xin won the championship of the project for a row, just one step away from the "Three Gold Chengxin".
'I hope to achieve another good result in the following matches and achieve a defensive title." After arriving at the location of the competition on September 9, Xin Xin told the outside world. On the morning of the 12th, the women's 10 km marathon swimming event of the National Games was held in the open waters of Cuiping Island in Yinghu Lake. Xin Xin lived up to expectations and won the gold medal with a time of 1 hour 57 minutes 00 seconds 03 seconds, contributing the 9th gold of the National Games to the Shandong delegation.
<b>From inside to outside</b>
Xin Xin's father, Xin Chun, once said that the name Xin Xin just reflects Xin Xin's training is more difficult. It is not so much that three golds become "Xin" as it is "Xin" quenches three golds.
Since practicing open water swimming in 2013, Xin Xin has spent only two months at home a year and rarely spends the Spring Festival at home. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Xin Xin has had fewer opportunities to meet with his family.
In April 2020, a reporter from Qilu Evening News Qilu Yidian went to the Shandong Provincial Sports Training Center to interview Xin Xin, who was preparing for the Olympic Games. Although the training site is in his hometown of Jinan, it is not easy for Xin Xin to meet his parents. During the closed training period, Xin Xin could only look at his parents from a distance through a gate of the training center.
In the exchange with Xin Xin, the reporter felt her efforts and seriousness. Although it was a break, Xin Xin always remembered his training during the interview. After the interview, Xin Xin rushed to the training facility as soon as possible and continued to devote himself to training.
Xin Xin, who gallops on the field, is also an ordinary girl who loves to joke, like food and beauty outside the field. Some people say that swimming in open water is a lonely person's game, and infer that Xin Xin is "lonely", but the reporter does not think so.
Xin Xin once shared with reporters that when participating in open water competitions, dolphins may be encountered, and if you want to burp during swimming, you will spit bubbles in the water... Xin Xin, who loves life, can always find fun in boring competitions.
Xin Xin is also a girl who loves to eat acid. After the Tokyo Olympics, Xin Xin once said that he wanted to eat vinegar slippery cabbage when he returned home. After the National Games, Xin Xin's father, Xin Chun, told reporters that Xin Xin's favorite food also includes sauerkraut fish.
Xin Chun followed her daughter to Ankang City, where the venue is located. After learning that her daughter won the championship, Xin Chun drank "celebration wine" herself. He said his daughter had not returned home since the Olympics and that he could not be reunited with her now. It was not until the end of September that Xin Xin could return to his home in Jinan. "When the time comes, the vinegar slip cabbage and sauerkraut fish tubes will be enough." Xin Chun said.
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