Chapter 80: Personal bests
I thought that the days without competitions would be very leisurely, but I maintained my physical strength with light training, and after the training, I could go to the arena and watch the games lazily.
I didn't expect to read to others every day the content of the Japanese burying themselves in the newspaper, Lu Wei felt that the past two days were particularly long, and they were not happy at all.
Finally, on the fourth day of the race, there was a 400m preliminaries this morning, and I finally had a chance to move my muscles.
The men's 400m heats were the first race on track ground on the day and took place at 9:10 a.m.
There are a total of 7 groups in the men's 400m preliminaries, and the top 3 teams in each group will directly advance to the semi-finals, and the top 3 teams in the final results of other team members can also qualify for the semi-finals.
American player Angelo. Taylor was placed in Group 1, Lu Wei was placed in Group 4, Varina was in Group 5 and Merritt was in Group 7.
The world record in the 400m race was won by American king Michael Brown. Johnson's 43.18 seconds set in Seville in 1999 and the Asian record of 44.56 seconds was set by Oman's Al-Malaki in 1988.
As you can see from the time set by these two records, the 400m is a talented sport, and only a genius can push the event forward.
In Michael. After Johnson, Varina is arguably the leader in the 400m and has not lost in a major event since winning the Athens Olympics in 2004.
At just 23 years old, he is already setting new records for his best results.
In this year's races, except for the Golden League Shanghai Station, he did not run under 44 seconds, all other times ran under 45 seconds, and in the race after the Golden League, he improved his best time to 43.5 seconds.
This result allowed him to become the third fastest team member in the 400m event, and it was always difficult for other team members to beat him in the competition, in addition to his good results in the 400m, he also achieved a time of 20.35 seconds in the 200m, and his speed ability is very strong.
The first set of matches began very quickly, and Angelo. Taylor looked like a veteran driver after the start, and at the age of 29 he was at the peak of an athlete's competitive form, and his technical condition was very stable.
"This guy's ability is good, he has good results in the 400m hurdles and 400m, and he can be regarded as all-round." Director Jiang muttered in his mouth, he is the encyclopedia of the track and field team. He can report the names of the team members who can't find the information on the website, and the technical habits of participating in the project.
This group is Angelo. Taylor didn't face any challenges, the race went into the second straight, and after 20 metres the situation was almost decided, he ran with ease and relaxed in the last 10 metres.
After the results came out, Angelo. Taylor's preliminaries time of 45.13 seconds is a good qualifying time and will definitely be in the top half of the qualifying team.
There was a Japanese team member in the second group, but he ran very hard in the race, and finally finished sixth in the group with a time of 46.28 seconds, and the Polish runner in the same group ran 45.83 seconds, which was not much better, and the advantage of the black race in the 400m race was really great.
White and yellow races are rare in competitions, and the results are not very good.
Soon it was Lu Wei's turn to play, and the momentum of the players in the 4th group he was in looked like they were also intimidating.
The 2nd team member is Nicaragua's López, who is not very tall, he looks like he is 1.8 meters at most, but he is very stout.
The team member of the 3rd Road team is Martin, a white athlete from the United Kingdom. Rooney, in the official information, his height is 1.97 meters, a veritable giant.
4 is the French player Leslie. Dezhen, 5 is Sweden's Johan. Weisman, 6 is the Italian player Andrea. Barberry.
When the on-site commentator introduced Lu Wei, who was standing in the 7th lane, the Japanese audience immediately booed, of course, mixed with applause, but the boos still prevailed.
Jamaica's Blackwood occupies lane 8 and Sudan retires in lane 9.
The 400-meter team members are basically above 1.8 meters tall, and if it is lower than this height, it can basically be concluded that there is no play.
The referee began to give orders, and Lu Wei's 400-meter race in Osaka finally began.
The sound of the starting point came from the starting point, and the seven team members on the track showed their talents and rushed out from the starting point.
Lu Wei ran 7 lanes for the first time in the official competition, and he lowered his center of gravity and went on the straight without running a few steps, and it was easier to accelerate on the straight than in the corner, and Lu Wei soon entered the training mode.
There was only one Jamaican player in front of Lu Wei in lane 7, and there was no way to see the running style of the other players behind him. However, Lu Wei casually flipped through the preliminary results of the last few competitions, and as long as he can run within 45.3 seconds, he can basically guarantee promotion.
This is not the same as playing, thinking of this, Lu Wei relaxed his body movements, as if he was completing a training session.
"Lu Wei's rhythm is very good, this period of training can be regarded as stabilizing his technical movements, this preliminaries is a training session, let him adapt to the competition environment."
The race did go well, and Lu Wei had already passed Blackwood in lane 8 by the time he entered the second corner. After entering the straight, Sweden's Johan. Wiseman was in 1st, Lu Wei was in 2nd place, and France's Leslie. Dezhen is less than 1 meter behind Lu Wei, and the gap between the other team members and the top 3 is basically 2 meters away.
"This is the most comfortable rhythm in the preliminaries of the competition, and the absolute advantage of promotion has been established in the sprint stage, and there is no need to consume physical energy to qualify." Wang Qiao took a sip of mineral water complacently.
Lu Wei was obviously unhappy that someone was in front of him, and in the last 80 meters of the sprint, he let go of his stride and made contact with Weisman, who was in third place. Dezhen saw that the two of them were still accelerating when they were sure to advance, and they didn't continue to exert their strength, still maintaining their speed.
"This kid is crazy, he will do his best in the preliminaries, and there will be 3 shots in the future, he is still young!" Wang Qiao, who was still leaning on the backrest just now, sat up straight at this time, and slapped his thigh with his right hand.
"If you know that this is a problem, you can avoid it, he is not a young man, young people's blood is like this, you were not like this back then, at that time, the City Games had two guns a day, you knew that there was a final in the afternoon, and the preliminaries in the morning were not also this virtue, this kind of thing is difficult to avoid, haha!"
After all, the 26-year-old Weisman has been competing in the track and field field for many years, and after running dozens of meters, he saw that Lu Wei's momentum was not reduced, and he simply did not accelerate hard, he obviously slowed down, let the inertia push him to the finish line, and let Lu Wei cross the finish line alone.
The results of the fourth group of the men's 400m preliminaries were displayed on the big screen less than a minute later: Lu Wei finished first in the group with a time of 44.8 seconds, and the word "PB" was next to the result, which means personal best.
Sweden's team member Weisman's time was 44.94 seconds, and he was led by Lu Wei to the rhythm, and the results were also very fast. Dezhen finished third in the group with a time of 45.17 seconds.
"It's a luxury to run the preliminaries with a personal best! You see that the 3rd place in this group can be ranked 1st in the previous group, and Lu Wei has brought up the rhythm of this group. ”