2023-08-03 11:55:05
2023-08-03 19:55 United Daily News reporter Liu Zhaoyu/Real-time report Fu Zhaoxuan won the silver medal in the men’s high jump event of the World Universiade track and field event.China News Service
The Chengdu World Universiade’s Chinese track and field team’s first medal was released tonight, and it won two medals in one go. The men’s high jumpers Fu Zhaoxuan and Cai Weizhi won the silver and bronze medals in the final with a score of 2 meters 20.
In May of this year, Fu Zhaoxuan, who just jumped 2 meters 25 and reached the Asian Games competition standard, has high hopes of winning a medal in this World Universiade. And in the men’s high jump final that appeared today, he also passed the jumps of 2 meters 10 and 2 meters 15. After reaching 2 meters 20, although he did not pass until the second jump, it was second only to the final jump of 2 meters The 25-year-old Ukrainian Vladyslav Lavskyi also won the silver and gold medals.
As for another competitor from China, Cai Weizhi, although he and the Hungarian and Ukrainian players also jumped over 2 meters 20, all three of them passed the third trial jump, and none of the previous heights had a record of failed attempts. In the end, the three also tied for the bronze medal; and this is also the other two male high jumpers who won medals in the Universiade men’s high jump in the world after Xiang Junxian, the national record holder of the high jump in China, won consecutive bronze medals in 2015 and 2017.
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