2023-09-25 01:43:17
[Sports Road to Hangzhou]The Hangzhou Asian Games rowing event, which is being staged at the Fuyang Water Sports Center, held its finale today (25th). The Hong Kong team rowers once again delivered good news. The last silver medalist Zhao Xianzhen was officially promoted from lightweight to lightweight. The two teams weighed equally and won the bronze medal in the men’s single sculls in 7:00.55, winning medals for two consecutive years.
Hong Kong team relied on the team on the first day of official competitionLin Xindong/Wang Weijun’s strong performance in the men’s double scull finalwon the delegation’s first gold medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games, and will appear in three more events today, among which Zhao Xianzhen will compete in the men’s single sculls final.
Zhao Xianzhen
The 28-year-old rower won the silver medal in the lightweight category last year and was crowned the Asian champion for the first time in December last year. However, he was later promoted to the open category and his competitiveness has only increased. From May to June this year, he won consecutive He reached the top ten in the World Cup twice, including 4th in Croatia, writing the best record in the history of Hong Kong rowing and giving him a boost to compete in the Asian Games again.
With the support of psychological, physical fitness, sports science and other aspects, Zhao Xianzhen trained “life-threateningly” to improve his condition in all aspects. He easily advanced to the first place in both the preliminaries and semi-finals, becoming the favorite to win the gold medal. The “big brother” of the Hong Kong team faced off against players from Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Japan and Indonesia this morning. Zhao Xianzhen, who was ranked third in the lane, followed the main boat group after the start and stayed in fifth place for the first 500 meters. After completing the half-way 1000 meters, he surpassed Harlonk and moved up to fourth place. Entering the second half, Zhao Xianzhen made great efforts to chase, 1500 After one meter, he was only less than half a second behind the third-place Indian player. In the last 500 meters, he further improved his stroke rate and finally overcame India to win the bronze medal in 7 minutes, 00 seconds and 55 seconds. China and Japan won gold and silver medals respectively.
Liang Yingyu
As for the women’s single sculls final held earlier, Liang Yingyu also participated. The runner-up in the lightweight category of last year’s Asian Championships competed in the open category in the Asian Championships. She qualified in third place in the preliminaries and semi-finals. She will compete today. Facing competitors from China, Chinese Taipei, Philippines, Uzbekistan and Japan in the morning, Liang Yingyu, who started on the 6th line, fought hard and finally completed the 2000m course in 8 minutes, 10 seconds and 72, ranking sixth.
Liang Yingyu ranked 6th.
Hong Kong who win medals at this year’s Hangzhou Asian Games will receive bonuses from the “Jockey Club Outstanding Athletes Award Scheme”. The top three in individual events will receive HK$1 million, 500,000 and 250,000 respectively, and the top three in team events will receive HK$2 million, 1 million and 500,000. Hong Kong dollar. Zhang Jialang and Cai Junyan received bonuses of NT$1 million and NT$250,000 respectively.
Pictures and interviews: He Ziyuan
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