Chapter 344: 4×400 meters ended perfectly

October 22, the last day of the track and field events of the 10th National Games.

For the most spectators, the main focus is on the men's 4×100m and 4×400m relay events.

The men's 4×100m relay is at 7:40 p.m., while the men's 4×400m relay final is at 8:50 p.m.

The men's 4×100-meter race has always attracted the attention of many people, and this time the men's 4×100-meter relay event of the National Games, as early as before the game, it has been rumored that Liu Yangyu will appear as the fourth baton of the Shenghai team.

Liu Yangyu is the Olympic champion and world champion of the men's 110m hurdles, everyone knows that he runs fast, and many people have been speculating about Liu Yangyu's men's 100m performance, and there has been endless speculation about this on the Internet and in the media.

Ye Qin and Liu Yangyu have not participated in the men's 100-meter formal large-scale competition, has been lacking competition data, in Zurich, the small-scale three-person playful 100-meter test, later from some channel came out, once became one of the topics of discussion.

Although Ye Qin did not appear in the men's 4×100m relay event this time, Liu Yangyu participated, which still aroused the expectations of a large number of spectators.

At 19:30 in the evening, the Olympic Sports Center Stadium, which had been overcrowded for five or six consecutive days, ushered in his last day of this National Games.

Forty or fifty thousand spectators from Jinling and all over the country were waiting in the stands at this time, waiting for the men's 4×100m relay final to begin.

"Brother Yang Yu is really the fourth best!"

In the stands, Ye Qin watched the members of the eight relay teams finish measuring the steps, and the athletes of each pass stood in each relay area in the order of each baton, and immediately said to Chen Zhongzhou next to him.

"Liu Yangyu must be the fourth stick, this concept of running 4×400 meters with you is the fourth way, everyone is looking forward to it." Chen Zhongzhou also looked at the arrangement of the athletes of each relay team on the side, and said with a smile.

seemed to take a closer look at the third stick of the Sheng Hai team, and then he was surprised, "Yang Yao is running the third batter?" ”

"That's right." Ye Qin was also surprised, "Yang Yao seems to have suffered a bit of a loss when he ran the third stick!" ”

The arrangement of each baton of the relay team can be changed before the start of the game. As long as they belong to the same team, even if they are not members of the relay team, they can be arranged to participate in the competition if necessary.

Yang Yao ran the third base, naturally because he was a special 200-meter athlete with excellent cornering skills, but in the eyes of Ye Qin and Chen Zhongzhou, Yang Yao should be the most suitable to run the second base.

In the 4×100m relay race, the second leg has the longest distance, and a runner with plenty of back-up ability is required. The third stick is preferably an athlete with strong explosiveness, short range speed and fast sprint.

"It may be that Yang Yao and Liu Yangyu are more familiar, and the two can cooperate better."

Ye Qin can only guess about such a path arrangement. Although Yang Yao's third run is not the best choice, he is a large athlete with a slow start to accelerate, but there is a relay area to provide him with plenty of time to accelerate, and the results should be good.

"That's just as well." Chen Zhongzhou nodded, and his reasonable idea was probably this.

The performance of the Sheng Hai team in the preliminaries was not particularly ideal, and it was arranged in the second lane. The third is the Guangdong provincial team, and the fourth is the Guizhou provincial team, and the strength of these teams is very strong.

After the game started, sure enough, the situation on the field was not bad as Ye Qin and Chen Zhongzhou expected.

The first baton of the Sheng Hai team was originally Zhou Wei, the national men's 100m record holder, but due to injury, the opponent withdrew from the relay race, which made the level of the athlete who ran the first baton on the bench a lot weaker. The first run was just over and he fell to third place.

When it came to the second straight stage, it was even weaker to fifth. On the contrary, the Guangdong provincial team, which is not particularly strong in the sprint event this year, has sprung up, accumulated advantages after two sticks, and ran to the first. Gui Province is a close second.

It wasn't until the third stick that the Sheng Hai team caught up from the fifth position with Yang Yao's personal ability, and finally cornered into the straight, and Yang Yao had almost chased from the fifth to the second position.

At the moment of completing the handover of the baton, the cooperation between Yang Yao and Liu Yangyu was not much tacit understanding, but there were no major mistakes. At this time, on the other side, the fourth baton of the Gui provincial team, Gong Wei, the men's 100-meter champion of this National Games, has begun to start, and the speed is getting faster and faster.

Although Liu Yangyu chased after him, but on the 100-meter track, there is still a certain gap with the professional men's 100-meter athletes, and the final result, the men's 4×100m championship was won by the Gui provincial team, with a score of 39.41 seconds, and the Shenghai team won the second place with a score of 0.24 seconds behind the champion.

"The difference between hurdles and sprinting is quite big."

After watching the men's 4×100m race, Ye Qin followed Chen Zhongzhou back to the indoor check-in area, and it didn't take much time to start the men's 4×400m relay final.

According to the statistics of the 110-meter hurdles, Liu Yangyu's 100-meter meters can run about 10 seconds 2-10 seconds 4, and the specific performance depends on the performance. However, when you talk about the technical difference between hurdles and sprinting, it's still obvious. You pay careful attention to Liu Yangyu's movements, every time he runs a few steps, he will always habitually appear a jump and jump action, this is a memory deep in the muscles and bones, 110 meters of runway, 10 hurdles, three steps and one hurdle, speed is not the most important, Liu Yangyu's best is the hurdle technique and rhythm. ”

Hearing Ye Qin talk about the game, Chen Zhongzhou talked about the difference between the two on the side, these are the homework he has asked people to do in the national team over the years. can have a large number of excellent athletes as references, and he has a very intuitive understanding of a lot of track and field sprint sprints.

After returning from the World Championships, Randy Hunter's focus returned to the long jump, and Yechin's training work, he, the assistant coach, has taken over, and so far, the two have not encountered any problems getting along.

At 20:40 in the evening, after a simple warm-up on the indoor warm-up track, Ye Qin appeared on the sports field of the Olympic Sports Center with three other Haixi men's 4×400-meter relay runners.

In the men's 4×400m event, although Haixi Province advanced to the final, it lost to the Guangdong Provincial team in the group stage of the preliminaries.

Guangdong Province has not emerged particularly eye-catching talents in the men's 1200-meter sprint event this year, and the previous Wen Yongyi did not perform well in this National Games, making Guangdong Province, which is known as a strong province in track and field, not have much success in the men's event at present.

However, in the 400-meter event, there are still more talents in Guangdong Province, except for the championship won by Ye Qinshu. The second, fourth and fifth places in the men's 400m were all from Guangdong Province.

Among them, Wang Liangyu, who won the runner-up, in addition to playing against Ye Qin in this National Games, also ran together in the 2003 City Games. At that time, Ye Qin was in third place, and the other party was in fourth place.

It's just that in the past two years, Ye Qin's growth rate has been amazing, and he has jumped up, and he is already a world-class player, although the other party has improved, but overall, he is still at the top level in China.

After all, the 4×400m is a relay event, and there are 4 people who need to complete the race.

The other three relay athletes from Haixi Province also know this, Wang Ningming, Cheng Zhiwei and Chen Xiaochuan, although the overall strength is weaker than the players of the Guangdong Provincial Team, but in fact, it has not reached such a big gap.

The main one is the mentality of the competition, and the performance is not particularly ideal. After all, with a world-class player like Ye Qin, it is not a manifestation of one's ability to win, and one hundred percent of the loss will be blamed on them.

Because of this, after the preliminaries, Liao Guanguan, the coach in charge of the relay project in Haixi Province, did psychological work for the three again and again.

After the start of the men's 4×400m final, Ye Qin waited for the final fourth stick on the edge of the relay area.

Wang Ningming, who was the first runner, ranked second among the eight runners after the run, only behind the first runner in Guangdong Province. And when the second run was completed, Cheng Zhiwei, who was born in the 400-meter hurdles in Haixi Province, also played quite well and ranked third.

When it came to the third baton, after Chen Xiaochuan, who was in the special 800 meters, came on the field, although he was inevitably caught up by other players, when he finally handed over the baton to Ye Qin, it was much faster than the preliminaries, and he ran fourth in a tie with the third baton of the Yanjing team.

The moment Ye Qin got the baton, the tense atmosphere of the scene suddenly rose to the highest.

Just like in the 4×100-meter relay race, Yang Yao handed over the baton in his hand to Liu Yangyu, and the audience was waiting for this moment.

Ye Qin did not disappoint the audience and the audience in front of the TV, and the moment he got the baton, he began to run quickly.

In just a short distance of a few tens of meters, he threw off the Yanjing team, which was faster than him, and chased after the Guangdong provincial team in front, the host Su provincial team and the Sichuan provincial team.

At 250 meters, Ye Qin caught up with the fourth baseman of the Sichuan Provincial team, which was the third in front, and at 300 meters, he overtook the host Soviet Provincial team.

At 350 meters, Ye Qin was already neck and neck with Wang Liangyu, the last runner-up of the Guangdong provincial team and the men's 400m final.

In the last 50 meters, Ye Qin directly overtook Wang Liangyu with his super speed ability in the second half of the race, ran to the first place, and maintained this advantage to the finish line.

In the end, the Haixi Provincial Relay Team, with Ye Qin's last super baton, won the championship of the men's 4×400m relay race of the 10th National Games with a time of 3:06.37, and the Guangdong Provincial Team ranked second with a time of 3:06.97.

The two teams are also relatively close in the 4×400m event in recent years, and they are quite good results. It is obviously a certain distance away from the third place host Su Provincial Team's time of 3:09.84.

Before the finish line, Ye Qin raised his head to look at the audience who applauded and celebrated him, and raised his hands high.

It was his first time competing in the National Games, and after this 4×400m race, he also delivered a perfect answer.

With seven days of competition and three championships, he is the undisputed number one figure in this National Games.