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on september 24, the 2024 national swimming championships kicked off in wuhan. this competition is one of the domestic trials for the budapest short course swimming championships at the end of the year. a total of 26 teams and nearly 600 athletes competed fiercely.

on the first competition day, in the men's 1500-meter freestyle final, qingdao athlete liu peixin won the championship in 14 minutes, 36 seconds and 87 seconds. what is the concept of this score? if liu peixin had participated in the paris olympics in august this year, he would have won the bronze medal with this result.

in the men's 1500-meter freestyle final of the paris olympics, champion funk's time was 14 minutes 30 seconds 67, runner-up partrinieri's time was 14 minutes 34 seconds 55, third place weifen's time was 14 minutes 39 seconds 63, liu peixin's time 14 minutes 36.87 seconds was nearly 3 seconds faster than the olympic third place time.

liu peixin is a native of qingdao, shandong province, and is a good prospect trained by the qingdao badminton and swimming management center. born in 2006, he began to become famous at the age of 12.in the 2018 shandong provincial games, liu peixin broke the competition record and won the 4x200-meter freestyle relay in men's group b a with a time of 8 minutes, 27 seconds and 95 seconds. at the 2021 national games, liu peixin gainedfifth place in men's 800m freestyle and7th place in men's 1500m freestyle.in september 2022, liu peixin won the men's 1500-meter freestyle in group a of the shandong provincial games with a time of 15 minutes, 28 seconds and 30 seconds.

in 2023, liu peixin participated in the asian games and finished fourth in the men's 800-meter event. 2024,liu peixin was selected for the chinese swimming team to participate in the doha world swimming championships. at the age of 18, hethe national swimming championships shined in the audience.

previously, qingdao’s swimming community only hadzhang mengwinning a gold medal and breaking an asian record at the paris paralympic games,no swimmer from qingdao has won a medal in the olympics. i hope that 18-year-old liu peixin can maintain his form and add glory to qingdao's swimming scene.

liu peixin (middle of second row)