The 2020 National Swimming Championships and Tokyo Olympic Games Standards kicked off in Qingdao, Shandong, and on the first day of the preliminaries, Xu Jiayu, Ye Shiwen, Fu Yuanhui and other famous players appeared, and Xu Jiayu and Ye Shiwen easily advanced. Fu Yuanhui swam 59.48 seconds in the 100m backstroke preliminaries, which is temporarily ranked 9th in the world this year. Yu Hexin broke the national record in the men's 50m freestyle preliminaries with a time of 21.79 seconds.
This competition is the most important swimming event in the country this year, including Xu Jiayu, Ye Shiwen, Liu Xiang and many other famous players have signed up to participate, hoping to test the training status through this event. In July, the Chinese swimming team held a summer test match in Qingdao, but many famous players were absent from that competition.
Because the preliminaries for the Tokyo Olympic Swimming Competition are held in the evening, and the semi-finals and finals are held in the morning, the schedule of this national championship is the same, with the preliminaries in the evening and the final in the morning. The first preliminary event was the men's 50m freestyle competition, Guangdong star Yu Hexin appeared in group 4, he showed good form, with 21.79 seconds to win the first preliminary round, this result also created a new national record, Yu Hexin's result is temporarily ranked 6th in the world this year. Shandong's Ji Xinjie also appeared in this group, swimming a time of 22.79 seconds.
According to netizens, Yu Hexin's body-side performance ranked 9th in the 50-self project, and if this news is true, according to the rules, Yu Hexin will not qualify for the men's 50-self-final.
The women's 200m breaststroke preliminaries were followed, with Yu Jingyao of the Beijing team and Ye Shiwen of the Zhejiang team attracting the most attention. Ye Shiwen appeared in the last group, although she was slightly behind in the first 50 meters, but she quickly overtook the first place after turning around, and then she took the lead at 2:27.44. Ye Shiwen's result was slightly better than her summer test match. Yu Jingyao appeared in the group before Ye Shiwen, she swam 2 minutes 25 seconds 27 to reach the Olympic a standard, while ranking first in the preliminary round, Ye Shiwen followed closely behind to advance.
This was followed by a preliminary round for the men's 400m freestyle. After Sun Yang was banned, Ji Xinjie was the most competitive athlete for the Chinese team in the event, and he played in Group 4. After entering the water, Ji Xinjie quickly took the lead, but teammate Hu Jia gave him a strong impact. Ji Xinjie then maintained his lead and took the lead in 3:50.16. Hu Jia was second in 3:50.41, and the two of them were also in the top two in the preliminaries.
The fourth was the women's 100m backstroke preliminaries. Hubei's Peng Xuwei came out in the 2nd group, and she took the first place in the group in 1:00.72. Zhejiang star Fu Yuanhui appeared in group 3, and she was in the 4th lane. Fu Yuanhui quickly established her lead in the first 50 meters, and after turning around, she continued to maintain her lead, hitting the wall with a lead of 59.48 seconds, and her performance reached the Olympic a-mark.
The 4th group has two famous players, Wang Xueer and Chen Jie, who are fiercely competitive, and in the end, Wang Xueer has a slight advantage, taking the first place in the group with 1 minute 01 seconds 72, and Chen Jie ranking 2nd with 1 minute 01 seconds 87. Combining the results of each group, Fu Yuanhui ranked first in the preliminary round, and the result of 59.48 seconds was temporarily ranked 9th in the world this year.
After the men's 200m backstroke preliminaries, Xu Jiayu appeared in Group 3. Xu Jiayu, who was in lane 4, was in the lead as soon as he came out of the water, but after turning 50 meters, Tao Guannan of Guangdong in lane 5 achieved a rebound, and he was slightly ahead of Xu Jiayu when he turned around in 100 meters. When turning around at 150 meters, Xu Jiayu regained the lead, and the lead was 0.19 seconds. In the last 50 meters, Xu Jiayu was in the leading position, hitting the wall first with 2 minutes 00.54 seconds, and Tao Guannan ranked second in 2 minutes 01.05 seconds. At the end of the preliminary round, Xu Jiayu successfully ranked first and advanced.