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august 27
anhui hefei sports center swimming pool
2024 national summer swimming championships
entering the third finals day

held that evening

men's 200m freestyle final

anhui teenager ge pingyang

won the gold medal with a score of 1 minute 48.37 seconds

this is also the anhui swimming team

the first gold medal won in this competition

ge pingyang (center) takes a photo with the silver and bronze medalists

the gold medals for the other six events were also decided that night: women's 100m breaststroke (zhu leiju, yunnan), men's 100m breaststroke (liu junjie, shandong), women's 200m freestyle (yang peiqi, hubei), women's 400m individual medley (yang peiqi, hubei), men's 400m individual medley (chen nuo, shanghai), and women's 800m freestyle fast group final (yang peiqi, hubei).

zhao tao, deputy director of anhui provincial field sports center, presents the award to ge pingyang

ge pingyang, a young man from bengbu who won the national championship for the first time, seemed very shy. he told reporters that he was relatively familiar with the competition pool in hefei. last year, when he just turned 18, he participated in the national youth championship and competed in this pool. however, the atmosphere of this game was different, with the feeling of a big competition. the audience cheered for him as soon as he appeared on the stage, which was very much like a home stadium.

ge pingyang appears

ge pingyang also told reporters that his best result in the past was third place in the national championship, and it was indeed a very happy thing to win the championship in hefei.

at the sprint moment, ge pingyang is ahead of all opponents

although sun yang only participated in the men's 400m freestyle in this competition, the men's 200m freestyle is also sun yang's strong point and main event. ge pingyang said that he watched sun yang's competition on the 25th and was deeply moved by the spirit of an old athlete pursuing his dream. after sun yang's comeback, he is likely to participate in the men's 200m freestyle competition, which means that ge pingyang will have the opportunity to compete with sun yang in the same pool in the future.

in response to this question, ge pingyang smiled and said that every young athlete wants to defeat sun yang, and so do i. for this, i will work harder.

the staff received ge pingyang's gold medal, here's a sneak peek

source: hefei evening news