The three national teams have different purposes for their "bottom line exams". Fukuoka Swimming World Championships: Training for the Paris Olympics | World Championships | Paris Olympics

The 2023 World Swimming Championships will be held in Fukuoka, Japan from July 14th to 30th. This is the last swimming world championship before the 2024 Paris Olympics, and it is a very important training opportunity for athletes from all countries.

The Chinese diving team sent 18 athletes to compete in all 13 diving events. The Chinese swimming team sent 41 athletes to compete in all 42 swimming events. The Chinese synchronized swimming team sent 14 members to compete in 11 events, striving to achieve good results.

Diving: "Dream Team" looks forward to winning 13 gold medals

In the previous Budapest World Championships, the Chinese diving team won all 13 gold medals, leading the diving medal table with a total of 17 medals of 13 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze, creating the best record at the World Championships. At this year's World Cup in Xi'an and Montreal, the diving team won all 9 gold medals. In this World Championships, the team's goal is not only to qualify for the Paris Olympics as soon as possible, but also to win 13 gold medals.

The Chinese diving team was the first delegation sports team to set out. In terms of the lineup, four-time world champion and Olympic double event champion Wang Zongyuan led the men's diving team. Three-time world champion Yang Hao and his men's double 10-meter platform partner Lian Junjie returned together.

The women's diving team includes 2022 World Champion Chen Yuxi, Quan Hongchan, Chang Yani, Chen Yiwen, and Li Yajie. Last year's mixed doubles 3m springboard world champions Zhu Zifeng/Lin Shan have returned, while Olympic women's doubles 10m platform champion Zhang Jiaqi has become a member of the mixed doubles 10m platform. Among the 18 contestants on the list, only Long Daoyi and Wang Feilong participated in the World Series for the first time.

Due to the absence of veteran players such as Cao Yuan and Yang Jian, the lineup for this World Championships is generally composed of young players, but most of them can be said to have experienced numerous battles and have undergone the baptism of world competitions multiple times. For example, 17-year-old Chen Yuxi has already won two consecutive gold medals in the women's 10 meter platform event at the World Championships, 18-year-old Zhang Jiaqi has won both the women's 10 meter platform doubles event at the World Championships and Olympics, and 16-year-old Quan Hongchan has won the women's platform doubles event at the Olympics, World Championships, and World Cup. Male athlete Bai Yuming, also born in 2007, teamed up with Quan Hongchan to win the gold medal in the mixed team event at last year's Budapest World Championships.

Although the overall strength of Chinese players is superior, there are also some very good athletes in the world sports arena who may have an impact on the Chinese team in the World Championships. The first thing to look at is Britain's Jack Ralph. This is a 27-year-old "old" athlete who won the men's singles 3-meter springboard runner-up as early as the Rio Olympics and won the men's double 3-meter springboard gold medal with his teammates. In addition, the 17-year-old Yujing Lu Dou, a new star of the host Japanese team, is a threat in the men's singles 10-meter platform event. Yujing Lu Dou started training with the famous Japanese general Tainai Jian since he was a child, and then trained hard under a Chinese coach and made rapid progress. At the 2022 Budapest World Championships, he won the silver medal in the men's singles 10 m platform.

Swimming: Can Men's Events "Bottom Out and Rebound"

In this year's National Spring Swimming Championships and National Swimming Championships, famous generals such as Zhang Yufei, Li Bingjie, Ye Shiwen, Xu Jiayu, and Qin Haiyang all demonstrated good performance in the competition. This also fills the outside world with expectations for the Chinese swimming team's trip to the World Championships.

1 gold and 4 bronze, this is the transcript presented by the Chinese swimming team at the last Budapest World Championships, especially in the men's event, where the Chinese swimming team achieved no success. At this World Championships, the Chinese swimming team is leading the way with the old, aiming to accelerate the transition between the old and the new while striving to make breakthroughs in the medal table.

Olympic champion Zhang Yufei has been in good form recently, especially after undergoing physical strengthening training and special training for core strength, and has achieved good results. In a physical fitness test conducted within the team before departure, Zhang Yufei achieved full marks in all six events. At the Fukuoka World Championships, Zhang Yufei will experience a dense schedule of 50 meter, 100 meter, 200 meter butterfly, 50 meter freestyle, and multiple relays.

Among them, the women's 200m butterfly is Zhang Yufei's main event. There are many opponents competing with Zhang Yufei for gold at the Fukuoka Swimming World Championships. Canadian 16-year-old McIntosh is a formidable opponent. She has broken the world youth record twice this year, with a time of 2:04.70 seconds, which is the world's best result in the women's 200m butterfly this season.

At this World Championships, Ye Shiwen will also make another appearance. At this year's selection competition, she won the women's 200 meter breaststroke championship with a personal best time of 2 minutes and 22.44 seconds. Female freestyle athlete Li Bingjie is another important gold medal for the Chinese swimming team. In the National Swimming Championships, she participated in the women's 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m freestyle packages, winning four gold medals and achieving a time of 4.01.08 seconds in the women's 400m freestyle final, tying her own Asian record.

On the men's side, Wang Shun performed consistently in the two rounds of the selection competition, achieving the world's best time of the season in the men's 200m medley event, with a time of 1:55.55 seconds. This year, Qin Haiyang achieved a time of 57.93 seconds in the 100 meter breaststroke, surpassing the Asian record, becoming the third athlete in the world to swim in 58 seconds. Yan Zibei and Sun Jiajun also swam in 59 seconds, indicating a significant improvement in the overall strength of the Chinese team in this event. Xu Jiayu, who has won the men's 100m backstroke World Championships twice in a row, achieved the world's best time of 52.26 seconds in this event. He will once again compete for the medal in this event.

Synchronized swimming: who can adapt to the new rules the fastest

Last October, the World Swimming Federation adjusted the scoring rules for synchronized swimming events, proposing higher requirements for the difficulty of movements and choreography design: using mathematical values and formulas to calculate the difficulty of movements, allowing male athletes to participate in group competitions, setting up new competition events, and applying for difficulty score cards before the competition. In the words of the coaching staff of the Chinese team, it can be summarized as "the era of synchronized swimming that can be arranged freely and 'looks very beautiful' is over".

Just a few days ago, the World Swimming Federation revised the rules again, including changes in formation as a bonus.

Last cycle, there was only one technical manual, but now the manual that explains the rules has been reduced to four, and the thickness stacked together is three times that of the past. The biggest change among them is the addition of collective skill self selection projects. How to incorporate lift movements into the complete program, and how to combine difficulty and artistry, has become the biggest challenge facing the coaching staff. For this reason, the program schedule has been revised and revised, inviting "foreign aid" coach Liu Feng from the Chinese diving team to help top players train for takeoff and somersaults. Physical fitness coach Zhao Dantong and his family have made a homemade spinning balance plate to help players practice specialized physical skills. All of these have laid the foundation for the team to achieve excellent results in several World Cup stages this year.

Under the new rules, male athletes are allowed to compete in the Olympic flower games for the first time. At the World Cup in France and the finals, Shi Haoyu, the "Chinese Flower Tour Brother", participated in the collective skill selection competition. He will also appear in the event at the Fukuoka World Championships. Shi Haoyu also participated in many mixed doubles matches in the World Cup and won all the championships. The Fukuoka World Championships will be Shi Haojin's fourth World Championships tour. At the last Budapest World Championships, he and his partner Zhang Yiyao won two bronze medals, which was the best record in China's mixed doubles event.