A few days ago, the first National Student Youth Games was in full swing in Guangxi. In the swimming field, many “post-05” teenagers performed well. Among them, Dong Zhihao, an 18-year-old Jiangsu boy, is the most concerned by the outside world. He is also considered as the successor of Qin Haiyang, the “frog king”. In the men’s 100m and 200m breaststroke finals, Dong Zhihao won the gold medal with great advantages. In the men’s 50-meter breaststroke preliminaries, Dong Zhihao also advanced to the final as the first place. In addition, Dong Zhihao also won the men’s 4× 100m medley relay gold medal with Chen Si Wei, Zhu Lifan and Zhang Xumeng.
The competition for swimming events in the first YWCA is still going on. Not surprisingly, Dong Zhihao will also set a new personal record. The media, people in the industry and netizens all praised China swimming star who was born in 2005. In the swimming World Cup that ended not long ago, Australian media reported on Dong Zhihao. In their view, this China swimmer is very likely to dominate the men’s breaststroke event during the Los Angeles Olympic cycle. Many netizens think that Dong Zhihao has extraordinary talent and ability, and the China team has successors in breaststroke.
Heroes become teenagers and become the brightest stars of the national team.
In recent Olympic cycles, the overall strength of China men’s swimming team has a certain gap with the strong teams such as Australia and the United States. Judging from the four strokes, Xu Jiayu has always been the absolute core of backstroke, while Sun Yang has made many outstanding achievements for China in freestyle. In contrast, China’s performance in the men’s butterfly and breaststroke events was slightly inferior. However, this season, with the strong rise of Qin Haiyang, the men’s breaststroke has become the key event for China to win gold in the Paris Olympic Games.
After Qin Haiyang, 18-year-old Dong Zhihao is a potential new star in China men’s breaststroke. In the 2021 Shaanxi National Games, Dong Zhihao won the gold medals in the men’s 16-17 age group in the 200m and 400m medley. In the 2023 National Youth Swimming Championships, Dong Zhihao won all the men’s 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke finals. In the 2023 National Swimming Championship, he won the runner-up in the men’s 200m breaststroke. In Fukuoka Swimming World Championships, although Dong Zhihao ranked fourth in the men’s 200m breaststroke final, his performance broke the world youth record.
The Youth League won the gold medal crazily, which was praised by the outside world.
In Hangzhou Asian Games, Dong Zhihao swam 2 minutes 08.67 seconds in the men’s 200m breaststroke final and won the second place. Dong Zhihao won the runner-up in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke at the previous World Cup in Berlin. In this Youth Association, Dong Zhihao shined brilliantly in the men’s breaststroke competition, winning gold medals in the men’s 100m breaststroke, the men’s 200m breaststroke and the men’s 4x100m medley relay, which is the biggest winner among all the contestants. Some netizens ridiculed, “It’s awesome! In another two years, you can call the ocean! ” For Dong Zhihao, his goal is to win the podium at the Paris Olympic Games!