Chapter 80: Jumping Eight Meters in the Qualifying Round

Sports reporter Yang Zhongyi came to the scene of the pre-game press conference early, and then took a good position, and soon after, other reporters came here one after another, and several acquaintances also came forward to greet Yang Zhongyi.

There are only a few reporters who often run the track and field line in China, and they all know each other, and before the pre-competition press conference starts, the reporters simply get together and chat.

"Lao Yang, Zhang Guan didn't participate in the sprint event this time!" Said a young journalist. The reporter, surnamed Sun, is a reporter from a media outlet that specializes in Zhang Guan's line, and this media is the same media that first reported on Zhang Guan's relationship with Sharapova last year.

"I know, Zhang Guan signed up for the long jump." Yang Zhongyi then asked, "Haven't you always been with Zhang Guan?" How is Zhang Guan's long jump practice now, do you know? Reveal it to me first! โ€

Reporter Xiao Sun shook his head: "How do I know this!" You also know the old man who guards the door at the Xinzhuang base, if you don't get in the oil and salt, you can't go in to interview the door. It's your old Yang, after all, you are the official reporter of the Athletics Association, but the regular army, you must know some new news! โ€

"I don't know." Yang Zhongyi spread his hands: "The training of the national team is confidential, especially Zhang Guan, the level of confidentiality is the highest, and what I know is similar to you." However, I think that Zhang Guan's long jump should be very powerful, and if the average sprinter jumps long, the results are good, and Zhang Guan may be able to jump the eight-meter mark! โ€

"Is eight meters away? I checked it before I came, and the national record in the long jump event is 8.40 meters! You see that Zhang Guan's breaking the Asian record in the sprint event is like playing, how to break the national record in the long jump! Xiao Sun said.

Yang Zhongyi shook his head slightly: "It's difficult." This long jump is not the same as sprinting, in the sprint event, our country's previous strength was quite weak, but the long jump event. Our country has always been very strong, at least at the top level in Asia! The 8.40m you mentioned is not only a national record, but also an Asian record! โ€

"No, I checked it when I came, and the Asian record is 8.48 meters!" Xiao Sun said.

"This Asian record for the long jump was broken just last month." Yang Zhongyi thought about it carefully. He continued: "I remember that on July 2nd, it was a Saudi athlete who broke the Asian record, and he was the previous Asian record holder in the long jump. โ€

Xiao Sun nodded, and then said: "Lao Yang, do you think Zhang Guan will be able to participate in the long jump at the Asian Games?" Can you win the championship? This runs 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters, plus a long jump, but there are four events, and there are no athletes in the world who can be proficient in these four events at the same time! โ€

"How not. Isn't American Marion Jones proficient in these four projects? And all of them are world-class. As for the Asian Games, ......" Yang Zhongyi paused, and then said: "In fact, the long jump record of the Asian Games is much lower than the Asian record, it seems to be 8.14 meters, which was created by Kazakh Suliman at the last Busan Asian Games. โ€

"If you add the sprint, wouldn't that be four Asian Games gold medals? If it was a 4x100m race, several other competitors in our country would have been a little more powerful. That's five gold medals! Xiao Sun exclaimed, and then his voice changed and continued: "Maybe there are more than five gold medals." This time, Zhang Guan also signed up for the 800m and 1500m races, and maybe he can win two more gold medals in the middle run......

"You're thinking too much about that." Yang Zhongyi said with a smile: "As far as I know, this time the national team has no intention of sending people to participate in the 800-meter and 1500-meter events of the Asian Games!" And the middle run and the sprint are completely different, the 400 meters and 800 meters of the two events still have some similarities, Zhang Guan is the first in the world in the 400 meters event, and it should be no problem to get a place in the domestic 800 meters race. But the 1500m is different, to be honest, in the 1500m run, I really don't think about Zhang Guan, I hope he can run an ideal result! โ€

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The National Athletics Championships are a four-day competition. In the past, the domestic track and field Grand Prix was held during the day, but this time the competition was arranged in the afternoon and evening, which was synchronized with world-class competitions such as the Olympic Games and the Asian Games, and was also to simulate the competition scene and cultivate the athletes' sense of competition.

On the first day, Zhang Guan will participate in the 800-meter preliminaries and the qualifying round for the long jump. In the afternoon, the qualifying round for the long jump will be held, and in the evening there will be a preliminary race for the 800-meter run.

In track and field jumping events, there are many participants in large-scale competitions such as the Olympic Games, so qualification tournaments are held. If it is a track and field competition with a relatively small number of participants, there is no need for the jumping event to have a qualifying tournament and go directly to the finals.

The level of long jump of domestic athletes is quite good, there are some excellent long jump athletes in all provinces, so the number of participants in the long jump event is also very large, so the long jump project will be held on the first day of the qualifying competition, the qualification competition is divided into two groups, each athlete can jump three times, the two groups of athletes cumulatively calculate the best results, and the total score ranks in the top twelve to enter the finals.

Zhang Guan was placed in Group A of the qualifying round, a group of 18 athletes, and the order of appearance was determined by the draw, and Zhang Guan drew the eleventh appearance. In the same group as Zhang Guan, there are also many well-known players, such as Zhang Xin, the champion of the 10th National Games, and Gu Junjie, a famous player who is proficient in long jump and triple jump.

Since the competition format is that the athletes in the two groups of qualifying round have the top 12 overall scores to enter the finals, Zhang Guan not only has to compete with the athletes in this group, but also has to face the challenge of the athletes in Group B. Moreover, Group A precedes Group B, which is obviously a disadvantage in this format.

When the competition starts, the referee signals the athletes to prepare, and then the first athlete is allowed to try the jump.

In the opportunity to try three jumps in the qualifying round, athletes will often take a more stable jump in the first jump to ensure the success rate and achieve a guaranteed result first.

Perhaps in order to achieve this guaranteed result, or perhaps because the level itself is relatively limited, the first athlete only jumped 7 in the first jump. The 25-meter score is relatively poor in an event of this level at the National Track and Field Championships.

The second athlete fared slightly better. He jumped out of 7. 41 meters, and the third and fourth runners did not jump 7 after that. 5 meters. Until the fifth star Gu Junjie appeared on the court, he jumped out of 7. 66 meters is a good result.

The next few athletes are relatively average, and their scores are also in 7. About 5 meters, there are two of them who choose to be more unrestrained. As a result, there was no score because of a foul.

Although there were 18 athletes participating in this group of qualifiers, it only took one minute for each person to prepare and complete the jump, so the speed of the competition was still very fast, and it was Zhang Guan's turn to play less than 20 minutes after the game started.

"Look at the long jump, Zhang Guan is going to play!"

Everyone's attention was focused on the long jump competition venue, and Zhang Guan had just stood in the running area.

"How far do you think Zhang Guan can jump? Can you skip 7.5m? โ€

"I don't think it's a big problem, the 100-meter sprinters can achieve good results in the long jump. Moreover, Zhang Guan is the world's No. 1 in the 100-meter sprint, even if the long jump technique is poor, but the physical talent is there, and there is no problem in jumping 7.5 meters. โ€

"Stop talking, Zhang Guan starts to run!"

"Wow, that's a fast run!"

"It deserves to be the world's first flyer, this speed!"

Zhang Guan in the running area started and then increased his speed to the limit rhythmically. This ensued with exclamations and cheers from all around.

is also an athlete, and others can't do Zhang Guan's running speed. There is no shortage of knowledgeable people in the field, judging from Zhang Guan's running speed alone, it can be predicted that Zhang Guan's jump must not be simple, and it may exceed Gu Junjie's 7 just now. 66 meters.

Zhang Guan approached the springboard, and he stepped on the board, and his toes were still far from the performance. Then the jump began.

"It's so high! Hey? Is this a squatting pose? Zhang Guan soared into the air, and the height looked very good, but someone immediately noticed that Zhang Guan was still using a crouching position.

"With the squatting pose, it's really a beginner!"

The squat pose is one of the least technical positions in the air and is used by the majority of beginners. However, there are not many squatting styles used in high-level competitions, and even domestic athletes are mainly stride-oriented.

"It's ugly."

"The technique is relatively average, and the sense of control rhythm is poor."

"The balance of the body in the air is barely qualified!"

When Zhang Guan's body was still in the air, those professional coaches and long jumpers who watched the game commented in their hearts.

"Poof......" Zhang Guan landed in the bunker.

In the competition, there were markings directly erected next to the bunkers, and at this time, according to the marks left by Zhang Guan, he had already skipped the eight-meter marking!

"Over the eight-meter line!" Someone exclaimed directly. And the vast majority of people turned their attention to the referee at the springboard, and they wanted to know if Zhang Guan's jump was valid.

The referee raised the white flag and the result was valid!

"The results work! It's eight meters over! That's eight meters? โ€

"I feel like he's dancing so easily! Just like that, I ran and jumped casually, and I broke eight meters! โ€

"It's worthy of Zhang Guan, genius, really genius! The first jump broke eight meters! โ€

โ€œ8ใ€‚ 05 meters! "The referee said the final result after the measurement.

The venue was boiling again.

"This is the qualifying round, just jump out of 8. 05m, unfortunately, the qualifying results are not counted in the finals, if it is tomorrow's result, maybe they may win the championship. โ€

"Yes, the final result of the long jump champion in last year's 10th Games seems to be 7. 99 meters, not yet 8 meters! โ€

"But that's fine, Zhang Guan will definitely enter the finals."

"Nonsense, 8. 05 meters, even the finals of the Olympic Games can also enter, not to mention our national track and field championships. โ€

"Do you think Zhang Guan will participate in the long jump in the next Olympics?"

"Probably not, 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters, if you add another long jump, Zhang Guan is afraid that he will not be busy!"

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Whether it was athletes, coaches or spectators, there was a heated discussion in the stadium. (To be continued.) )

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