Shanxi girl Li Yajie one -meter board winning the championship

Shanxi Evening News (Reporter Li Yan) On the evening of June 29, Beijing time, the 2022 World Swimming Championship continued in Budapest. In the competition of women's one -meter board, Shanxi girl Li Yajie defeated the United States and Australia all the way with the difficulty and stable performance of the United States and Australia. Wait for the strong player to enter a gold for the Chinese diving team. This gold medal is unusual and is the first women's World Championship won by Shanxi diving.

Li Yajie, born in 2002, was selected from the Grand Space School to the Shanxi Province Diving Team for training at the age of 7. At the same time, he studied in the third experimental primary school of Taiyuan City and began his sports career while learning and training. At the second National Youth Games held in Shanxi in 2019, Li Yajie appeared and won the men's and women's mixed three -meter board championships and women's one -meter board runner -up. The game that made Li Yajie's fame was the National Diving Championship in 2021. With a total score of 318.35 points, she refreshed the highest scoring record of Chinese players in the project in recent years and won the championship. With the outstanding performance of this competition, Li Yajie entered the Chinese diving team in November of the same year. On June 10 this year, the Chinese diving team released the list of the World Championships. The 20 -year -old Li Yajie appeared in the women's one -meter lineup. This was the first time that she participated in the world competition on behalf of the national team.

Wei Fichun, deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Athletics Swimming Center, introduced that Li Yajie's technical characteristics are difficult, full of strength, good rhythm, and she usually trains hard and has a little boy personality. During the selection of the national team for most of the years, Li Yajie has improved very quickly, and the technical specifications of the action have been in a grade.

In the preliminaries of the 1m board of women's 1m boards on the 29th, more than 50 players participated. The top 12 entered the finals. Li Yajie was promoted with the first ranking. The battle for the mixed doubles 3 meters. In the finals, Li Yajie played steadily and pressed the Qunfang, and eventually included the world championship.

For Shanxi diving, this gold medal has a milestone significance. Shanxi's diving foundation has been weak, but in the past 20 years, with the efforts of senior coaches such as Liang Shunli, outstanding players such as singing, Wang Liang, Zhou Xin, and Zhang Xinghao have emerged. In the 2017 Swimming World Championships, Shanxi player Li Zheng's partner teammate Wang Han won the men's and women's mixed two -meter championship. This is the first world champion of Shanxi diving project. It is worth mentioning that Li Zheng and Li Yajie are both "post -00s" players. Driven by the new generation of local outstanding athletes, Shanxi diving in the future is expected.

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