Original title: Sun Yang, Guangzhou's first show, entered the finals for the first time in the preliminaries and trained hard to prepare for the Olympics
This morning, Beijing time, Sun Yang made his debut in the men's 400m preliminary swimming world championships in Guangzhou. He entered the final with the first place of 46 contestants in 3 minutes, 44 seconds and 10 seconds. Ji Xinjie, another Chinese contestant, advanced to the eighth place in the preliminary round.
Sun Yang's old rival, Australian swimmer Horton, ranked fifth in the preliminary with 3 minutes, 45 seconds and 51 seconds. The men's 400m freestyle final will begin at 19:00 Beijing time tonight.
Sun Yang: the first shot, the coach said it would be more difficult. Everyone's first shot will be more difficult because they have to swim to a result that makes them full of confidence. The level of the players on the side is almost the same as me, so for me, just go to the finals. Do what you should do.
About 'training feeling after coming to Gwangju': it was hard some time ago. I tried my best to adjust. It was also a drill for next year's Tokyo Olympic Games. For me, I wanted to show my best performance every time.