America's Road to Fame

Chapter 389 Making History

Tuesday, July 7.

On the morning of this day, the first event William Chen started at 9 o'clock was the men's 50-meter breaststroke qualifier, which was also William Chen's second event at the World Swimming Championships in Shanghai.

After the competition, he could still get enough rest. At 18 o'clock in the afternoon, the first competition was the highly anticipated men's 200-meter freestyle final.

The men's 9m breaststroke qualifiers started at 50 o'clock. A total of 56 players participated in the competition. The competition will be divided into 7 groups, and the top 16 players in the final score will enter the semi-finals.

Like the 50-meter short-distance swimming competition, the test is the explosive power of the players, so it can be clearly seen that the players participating in the competition are generally younger than the 200-meter freestyle players, and William Chen is not the best among them. The young batch is gone.

After yesterday's game experience, William Chen has some experience in how to control the rhythm of the game.But after all, the 50-meter short distance race is relatively short after all, so compared with the 200-meter freestyle, it is more difficult to qualify for the semi-finals without revealing your full strength.

In the end, William Chen basically achieved his goal. His final score in the 50-meter breaststroke was 26 seconds, and he almost failed to control the record.

The men's 50-meter breaststroke world record is 26 seconds, which is also a world championship record, and was also created by South African player Vanderberg at the 67 Rome Swimming World Championships.

在陈威廉之外，排在预选赛成绩No.2的是巴西选手达·席尔瓦，第六小组出发的他游出了27秒19的成绩，斯洛文尼亚选手马克奇以27秒36的成绩获得预赛No.3，斯洛文尼亚人杜冈季奇以27秒47排在预赛No.4。

It is worth mentioning that the 23-year-old Huaguo player Gu Biaorong ranked fourth in the group. As a result, he ranked second in the group with a time of 28 seconds. In the overall ranking, Gu Biaorong only ranked 14th and did not win Semi-final qualification.

After his debut in yesterday's game, William Chen has already conquered the audience with his outstanding performance beyond most people's expectations. Therefore, today, he seems to be at his own home court, whether it is before the game or in the game. In the end, they all received encouragement and applause from everyone.

For this, William Chen also waved to the audience to express his gratitude when he walked to the sidelines. Crazy female fan, I don't know what to do when I rush down...

Even so, at that time, bold female fans could hear shouts of "Husband Husband" one after another in the venue, giving people the illusion that this is not a swimming pizza scene, but some idol fans What about the meet and greet?

What's interesting is that at this time, the footage of the TV broadcast was mischievously shown to Paris in the auditorium. It can be clearly observed that although she is also happy about Chen William's results, but hearing Those female fans still obviously rolled their eyes when William Chen shouted "Husband Husband".

It has to be said that not only Ivanta, but even Paris is learning Chinese intermittently. Among other things, she still knows the meaning of "husband" that these female fans call.

In this way, at 18 o'clock in the afternoon, the men's 200-meter freestyle final that has attracted much attention officially began.

All the contestants stood on the starting platform. In this competition, two American players, Phelps and Lochte, occupy the 2nd and 3rd lanes. France's Agnel, who is second in the final, is on track 4, Germany's Biedermann and South Korea's Park Tae-hwan are in lanes 5 and 1 respectively.

When it came to the game where the medals were decided, the atmosphere of everyone was very dignified.

As the starting sound sounded, all the contestants jumped into the swimming pool at the first time, swimming rapidly.And on the field, the loudest voice that can be heard is the cheers for William Chen.

Because there were no Hua country players in this final, Chen William, who is very well-known in China and has Hua country blood, became the object of support from the audience, and this place instantly became his home stadium.

At the beginning of the game, Phelps showed a strong desire to win, and he occupied the first position when he turned around in the first 50 meters.

And his teammate Lochte ranked third behind Phelps by 0.28 seconds. Of course, the second place was William Chen!

He still uses the previous strategy, and in the first 100 meters of the race, he bites the leading player tightly, but will start to exert strength in the last 100 meters.

For the next 50 meters, Phelps also maintained his own strength, as if he had returned to the Water Cube in the Yanjing Olympics, leading his opponent calmly.

Of course, with Chen William following closely behind, whether he is really calm or not, only he knows.

When entering the 150-meter competition, Lochte began to exert strength. With high-quality strokes, Lochte, who was not fast in frequency, completed the overtake of Phelps in this 50-meter race, leading Phelps when he turned around. 0.64 seconds, but at this time, he can only be ranked No.2.

Because at this stage, Chen William has also started to accelerate. After passing Phelps, he maintained the leading position. Tired figure.

The French teenager Agnel ranked third with a difference of 0.61 seconds. After the last 50 meters, all the players started to exert their strength, and the final sprint is what Lochte is good at. He was once considered to have the most speed reserves , Park Tae-hwan was completely suppressed by his amazing performance during the sprint.

But all his efforts were in vain after all. Since entering the third segment of the stroke, William Chen has firmly held the lead, leaving most of the others behind.

In the end William Chen hit the wall first, and his final score was 1:41!

After seeing the final result and confirming it was valid, the commentator in the live TV broadcast said excitedly:

"William Chen! William Chen won! He won the gold medal, and his time was 1:41! This means he broke the record of 45:2009 set by German player Paul Biedermann at the 1 Rome Championship The world record, a new record was born! Congratulations to William Chen, he deserved his gold medal, which is incredible. In this world-famous super rich man, he participated in the world competition for the first time at the age of 42, not only Congratulations to him for winning his first gold medal in an international swimming competition and breaking a world record!"

"At this time, in this competition, there are the former world record holder Biederman and the former world record holder Phelps. I don't know if they saw William Chen breaking the world record in the men's 200m freestyle. record, and defeated them, and won the gold medal, what kind of mood is it?"

At this time, no matter the audience in the field or the audience in front of the TV, they could see the final result of the game. William Chen broke the world record and won the gold medal with a time of 1:41.

美利坚的罗切特以1分44秒44的成绩获得了No.2，得到一枚银牌；菲尔普斯以1分44秒79的成绩夺得季军，仍然未能拿到本届世锦赛的第一枚金牌，而是获得了第二枚铜牌；德国选手比德尔曼以1分44秒88获得No.4。

After the competition, the men's 200-meter freestyle award ceremony of the Shanghai Swimming World Championships was held on the spot. William Chen, Lochte and Phelps won gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. Interestingly, they are both American nationalities , but this time, William Chen participated in the World Championships in his own name, and Atlanta has not yet joined the FINA and the International Olympic Committee.

Therefore, during the awards ceremony, the second and third positions of Lochte and Phelps were the raised American flag, while Chen William's champion position was the raised FINA flag according to regulations. The flag, the music played, is also the anthem of FINA.

This scene is the first time in the 1978-year history of the World Swimming Championships since the first session was held in 38, and William Chen also made history with this.

(End of this chapter)