China’s wrestling locks 11 Olympic seats, one person at a time, aiming for the gold medal
2024-05-15 11:11:13 Source: Sports News reporter Yi Longyin
On May 13, according to the official website of the World Wrestling Federation, at the just-concluded Paris Olympic Wrestling World Qualification Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey, two Chinese players Zou Wanhao and Habila Awusa Yiman won the men’s freestyle respectively. The last Olympic tickets for wrestling in the 57kg and 97kg categories.
So far, the allocation of seats for the Paris Olympics wrestling event has ended. The Chinese team has received a total of 11 participating seats, including the women’s freestyle 50kg, 53kg, 57kg, 68kg and 76kg categories, and the men’s freestyle 57kg. Kilogram, 97kg and 125kg, men’s Classical 60kg, 87kg and 130kg, tying the number of participants in the Tokyo Olympics.
In the past, wrestling and judo were also the gold medal spots for the Chinese delegation, but in the past two Olympic Games, the Chinese wrestling team failed to win the gold medal. In addition to Zou Wanhao and Habila Awusha who received tickets this time, those who have previously received Olympic tickets are: Feng Ziqi, who won the bronze medal in the women’s freestyle wrestling 50kg class at the 2023 Belgrade Wrestling World Championships held in September last year , Meng Lingzhe, who ranked fifth in the 130kg men’s Greco-Roman wrestling team and set a new record for Chinese classical wrestling major-level athletes, Cao Liguo, who won the third place in the 60kg Greco-Roman wrestling team at the 2024 World Wrestling Federation Zagreb Open, Pang Qianyu, Hong Kexin and Zhou Feng won gold medals in the three Olympic levels of women’s free wrestling in the 53, 57 and 68 kg categories at the 2024 International Wrestling Federation’s first points tournament in Zagreb.
Sheng Zetian, the leader of the Chinese national wrestling team, said that the bigger goal is to reach gold medals at the Paris Olympics. In this Olympic cycle, in order to help the athletes better adjust their condition, the wrestling team has adopted a “one person, one strategy” personalized training plan. The Chinese team’s main gold medal is in women’s wrestling. Sheng Zetian emphasized: “For veteran players, such as Zhou Feng, we emphasize on improving their ability and helping her to design refined techniques and tactics; as a Tokyo Olympic medalist, Pang Qianyu has many injuries, so she must first do a good job in preventing and treating injuries. Her advantage is The pace is fast, but the disadvantage is poor endurance, so we need to help her strengthen her physical fitness.”
Tags: Editor: Bi Zhen
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