Chapter 409: First in the medal table

After Liu Xiang went back, Yi Dun and others gathered together to sigh and feel sorry for Liu Xiang.

"Brother Dun, when did you say you would be able to get involved in sprinting?"

"If you can get involved in sprinting, the U.S. team's dominance in track and field will be over."

"That is, without the gold medals in the sprint event, the gold medal of the American team in the track and field event is not necessarily as many as the Russians."

Several members of the national team complained at Yi Dun.

Yi Dun scratched his head, why didn't he want to get involved in the field of sprinting, but even a fool knew that sprinting was definitely not his forte.

He also wants to steal all the sprint gold medals of the American team, but at the moment, this possibility is almost impossible, unless the third attribute is turned on the speed, so that he can have a chance to snatch those sprint gold medals from the American team.

The U.S. is strong in track and field, not just in long-distance running, as in East African countries, but in every event.

A World Championships can produce 141 medals, and the U.S. team can probably take a third!

If you do the math, they will win an average of one medal per event.

Why are Americans so strong in athletics? The reason is largely because the United States is a country of immigrants, there are various races in the country, and many foreign strong players have also become American citizens and represent the American team.

In this case, it is difficult for American track and field to be strong.

However, even if the overall strength is strong, it must also be focused, and the American athletes have won a lot of medals in the sprint and jumping events, and many of the world's famous sprinters and high jump and long jump stars are from the United States.

If Eden can really monopolize all the gold medals in the sprint event, it will undoubtedly be a considerable blow to American track and field.

Now it is difficult for the American team to rank first in the medal table because of Eden, and if the sprinting event is also monopolized by Eden, they may really lose to Russia in the medal table.

But at the moment, this kind of thing can only be a fantasy, and Yi Dun does not have the ability to complete this fantasy at present.

At the end of the first three competition days, Yi Dun won four gold medals, which is definitely the athlete with the most gold medals so far in this World Championships, and also makes the Chinese track and field team sit on the first place in the medal table.

On the next four race days, Eden's schedule was also extremely comfortable, with only one men's 800m final that day.

However, in addition to the gold medal in the 800m final, there was also a men's discus throw final on the same day......

Although Yi Dun did not participate in the men's discus final, he had a lot to do with Yi Dun, and he was now waiting for the start and end of the discus final, so that he could win a gold medal again.

When it was close to eight o'clock in the evening, the men's discus throw final was held as scheduled, and the contestants had a strange expression after entering.

The main reason is that this discus gold medal has already had a next home, and these players are more like a foil to set off the strength of Yi Dun.

In the previous track and field events, although the discus gold medal was also Yi Dun's, but at that time, after all, the decathlon event was the last event, and after the discus players won the gold, they could still have some illusions in their hearts, such as Yi Dun's abnormal performance in the discus project in the decathlon, so that he didn't have to hand over the gold medal.

As a result, at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, I didn't know what to do, so I had to put the decathlon in front, resulting in these discus throwers not participating, and they knew that they had absolutely no possibility of winning gold.

Yi Dun's men's 800m final was held at 9:30 p.m., and he was in no hurry to enter the field at the moment, and now he watched the discus throw final with his national team teammates with relish.

It's really interesting to watch, Yi Dun is looking at which kind-hearted person is helping him compete for the gold medal......

"Sister Li, Brother Dun, we have won all the two discus gold medals in the World Championships, can we say that our China is the world's discus hegemon?" A young player asked excitedly.

There were two gold medals in the discus, and all of them were won by the Chinese team.

"I really envy Brother Dun, you don't have to play here, you can see the gold medal when you sit here and watch the game......"

"I don't know if this kind of thing has happened in the history of sports, anyway, there have been too many unbelievable things happening to Brother Dun, and I'm used to seeing it."

In the midst of everyone's small talk, in the end, Germany's Robert Harding won the "gold medal" with a score of 68.49 meters, or a silver medal to be exact.

I don't know if this Harding is unlucky or lucky.

However, looking at Harding's excited look after the game, maybe he thought he was the lucky one......

Harding is actually a very interesting player, nicknamed the Hulk, not that he is green, but he often tears his clothes after the game like the Hulk transforms.

At the end of the discus throw, Harding tore his tracksuit, revealing his shaggy chest......

"Okay, the race is over, and the 800-meter final on my side is about to start, so I'll go first." Yi Dun stood up and said goodbye to the big guy.

The gold medal in the discus throw is also in hand, and it is time for me to go to the 800m final.

In the first two competition days, Yi Dun participated in a total of 15 events, and he didn't win too many gold medals, but today he only participated in one 800-meter final, and he was able to win two gold medals directly......

Countless strange things have happened to Yi Dun, and now this kind of strange thing can only happen to Yi Dun.

The 800m final went quite smoothly, and if you count it, there are eight runners, most of whom are also East African.

Among the eight players are two Kenyans, two Ethiopians, and one Sudanese, while the remaining three are a Russian, an American and Eden.

The strength of the American player Symonds is not impressive, let alone compared to Eden, and even the Russian player Yuri is better than him.

As a result, with an absolute advantage of 1:40.22, Yi Dun crushed the second Kenyan player by more than three seconds and won the sixth gold medal of this World Championships.

At the end of the first four days of competition, the Chinese track and field team won a total of 7 golds and 2 silvers.

There was only one event on the fifth day of competition, the women's 20km race walk, which was also the gold point of the Chinese team.

On this day, all the members of the national team came to the competition site to cheer for the Chinese women's race walkers, especially Liu Hong, the current leader of Chinese women's race walking, who received the most attention.

After more than an hour of competition, the expectations of Yi Dun and others finally came to an end, and Liu Hong really won the championship, and she won the gold medal in the women's 20km race walk with a score of 1 hour and 30 minutes.

This also makes the 20km race walk a real fist event in Chinese track and field.

The men's 20km race walk won one gold and one silver, and the women's won one gold, which is no less dominant than the East African runners in long-distance running.

However, Liu Hong's gold medal was actually very thrilling, and the second-ranked Italian player was only half a position behind Liu Hong, and the final result was only 0.23 seconds less than Liu Hong, which made Yi Dun and others nervous.

If you are 0.23 seconds behind in the 100-meter race, it is undoubtedly a relatively large gap, but the 20-kilometer race walk is 0.23 seconds behind, in fact, it is basically not a gap.

More than halfway through the World Championships, the Chinese team has already won 8 gold medals, and Director Xu and others are really happy.

On the sixth day of competition, Eden also had a relatively easy schedule, with only two events, namely the men's 5,000 meter preliminaries and the 3,000 steeplechase final.

Yi Dun won the championship of the 3,000-meter steeplechase without any suspense, but Gong Lijiao did not perform well in the women's shot put final today.

It stands to reason that with Gong Lijiao's strength, she actually has a good chance of winning the championship, but in recent years, she has never won the championship in the world series she has participated in.

In the women's shot put final this time, Gong Lijiao only won a bronze medal, although the results were not bad, but Gong Lijiao herself was definitely not satisfied.

As a player who debuted at about the same time as Yi Dun, Yi Dun is now a god-like existence in the shot put, and Gong Lijiao still does not have a gold medal with high gold content.

Yi Dun remembers very well that at the end of the last World Championships, he also comforted Gong Lijiao, and Gong Lijiao failed to win the gold in the World Championships that time.

With the end of the sixth day of competition, Eden's individual gold medal tally has risen to seven.

On the next seventh day of competition, Yi Dun won another gold medal in the shot put, and the number of individual gold medals came to eight.

In the first two days of the World Championships, Eden's schedule was extremely intensive, and Eden was a lot easier in the next few days, but with the end of the seventh day of the competition, Eden will be busy again.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of September 3, Eden ushered in the most brutal competition of all track and field events, that is, the men's 50km race walk.

The brutality of this event is self-evident, whether it is the time of the competition or the physical challenge of the athletes, it can be said to be the best in athletics.

Yi Dun felt fortunate that he had an easy schedule in the first few days, and if the 50km race walk was scheduled for the third day, he might really be a little overwhelmed.

Wang Zhen and Chu Yafei both specialize in the 20km race walk, so they did not participate in the 50km race walk, and Yi Dun will compete with two other Chinese runners.

One of the contestants is from Inner Mongolia, and his name is quite interesting, Xu Guangguang......

At the World Championships in Berlin, Xu Guangguang also participated in the 50km race walk, but his results were not particularly outstanding at that time, and he only won the eleventh place.

Two years have passed, and Xu Guangguang's strength has improved significantly, and this time he may be able to create good results.

Another player is named Si Tianfeng, who is Yi Dun's Shandong hometown, and his strength is also quite good, slightly stronger than Xu Guangguang, in the previous selection competition, Yi Dun ranked first, and Si Tianfeng ranked second.

As a result, the game, which started at 8 o'clock in the morning, was compared until noon.

Yi Dun won the championship with a time of 3 hours, 27 minutes and 29 seconds, think about how long it took for a monster like Yi Dun to complete the race, and how long the other competitors had to race.

What is surprising is that Si Tianfeng's results are also quite gratifying, with a time of 3 hours, 45 minutes and 21 seconds, although Xu Guangguang failed to win a medal, but the seventh place is also a personal breakthrough, for a young player like him, as long as he can always make a breakthrough, he can achieve achievements sooner or later.

After the race, Yi Dun was also tired enough, but today he has no competition, there are two of his gold points in the evening, one is the javelin final, the other is the men's 1500m final, but Yi Dun does not have to participate in these two games.

At 8:40 p.m., with the end of the men's 1500m final, Eden won three gold medals again on this eighth day of competition.

Since then, the number of individual gold medals has reached a terrifying 11!

This is definitely a miracle in the history of human sports, if this competition is a low-gold event, the key is that this is the World Championships, one of the highest standard competitions, countless track and field athletes dream of the competition stage, not to mention winning gold or medals in this track and field World Championships, is just to get a qualification, it is already the dream of most track and field athletes.

As a result, in this level of competition, the number of gold medals has broken ten before the schedule is over!

With the number of gold medals in Yidun coming to 11, the Chinese track and field team has also won 13 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes.

With such a result alone, the Chinese team is now 100% able to win the first place in the medal table, and the United States team has no possibility of catching up with the Chinese team.

If you want to talk about regrets, there are naturally some places.

That is, the number of medals of the Chinese team is actually a little small, and the number of gold medals is terrifying, but the number of silver and bronze medals is pitiful, and it cannot be compared with the United States team or even the Russian team.