Historic moment as rowers soar
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After a 13-year wait, China claimed its second Olympic rowing gold medal in the women鈥檚 quadruple sculls at Tokyo 2020 yesterday.
China also won a bronze in the men鈥檚 double sculls, the first men鈥檚 medal for China and Asia in an Olympic rowing event.
Cui Xiaotong, Lyu Yang, Zhang Ling and Chen Yunxia started strongly and led all the way to clinch gold in 6 minutes 05.13 seconds, a big margin of 6.23 seconds over second-placed Poland. Third place went to Australia in 6:12.08.
China鈥檚 winning result also lowered the previous world鈥檚 best time of 6:06.84.
The quartet won a gold medal at the 2019 world championships, and have been unbeaten since.
It has been 13 years since China achieved its first-ever Olympic rowing gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, also in the women鈥檚 quadruple sculls.
Zhang Liang and Liu Zhiyu, 2019 world champions, led the first 1,000 meters in the men鈥檚 double sculls, but were later surpassed. They ended up with a bronze medal in 6:03.63, the first men鈥檚 Olympic rowing medal for China and Asia.
France bagged gold in 6:00.33 in a new Olympic record time, and the silver went to the Netherlands in 6:00.53.
鈥淥ur goal was actually a gold medal,鈥 said Liu. 鈥淎nyway, it鈥檚 a big breakthrough for China. It proves that we have the ability to compete against European rowers.鈥
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