After winning the first gold in the 12th National Games in the women ’s 20km race walking team six days ago, the Jiangsu delegation sent good news yesterday: In the women ’s marathon team competition on May 18, the Jiangsu team finally won the gold medal by virtue of the group advantage Among them, Nanjing girl Wei Xiaojie also won the bronze medal in the individual competition.

In this National Games marathon, Wei Xiaojie not only won the group gold medal and individual bronze medal, but also knocked on the door of the World Championships in Moscow in August with his outstanding performance. So far, of the 8 gold medals that have been produced during the 12th National Games, the Jiangsu team has won two of them.

Director of the Provincial Sports Bureau Yin Baolin (fourth from the left in the front row), Deputy Director Yang Guoqing (sixth from the left in the front row), etc.

The marathon team competition of this National Games is the same as that of the walking group, and it is also jointly participated by adult and young athletes. Among them, the members of each team participating in the women's marathon team competition are composed of 5 adult athletes over 18 years old and 3 young athletes under 18 years old. The final result is to take 4 of the 5 adult athletes' best results Add to 2 best results of 3 young athletes.Wei Xiaojie and Hao Xiaofan broke into the top ten of the women's marathon (ranked 3rd and 9th), Yue Chao ranked 11th, Wang Xueqin and Zhou Chunxiu ranked 14th and 25 respectively, and Liu Zhuang of the youth group ranked women's half marathon. In the first place, Wang Tian and Tang Yingnan ranked 5th and 6th respectively. Judging from the overall results, Jiangsu was more than 6 minutes ahead of the second place Yunnan and won the championship with a big advantage.

The Jiangsu women's team has outstanding strength in team projects. Among the eight were Zhou Chunxiu, a bronze medalist at the Beijing Olympics, Wei Xiaojie, a Nanjing girl who won the Beijing Marathon in 2011, Wang Xueqin, who won the Xiamen Marathon in 2010, Yue Chao who won the runner-up in the 2012 Ijin Hollo International Marathon, In the 2011 Hangzhou Marathon, many young players such as Nanjing girl Tang Yingnan who pushed Kenyan runner-up to the runner-up position.In the end, the Jiangsu Ironman team won the gold with their absolute advantage, which is also the second gold medal of the Jiangsu delegation in this National Games.

Xiong Wei, director of the Provincial Field Management Center, told the media that for this group gold medal, the Jiangsu team is very well prepared. He particularly praised veteran Zhou Chunxiu, saying: "Zhou Chunxiu is 35 years old this year. In fact, she can retreat after the Beijing Olympics, but she resolutely chose to stay." It is understood that although the 35-year-old veteran has many injuries, I still insist on a training volume of more than 20 kilometers per day. But for Zhou Chunxiu, being able to persist to this day may be a victory.And a National Games group gold medal can also be considered to fill Zhou Chunxiu's no gold at the National Games. Zhou Chunxiu, runner-up of the compound bow in the Osaka World Championships in 2007 and runner-up in the Beijing Olympics Marathon, is the Chinese women's marathon runner who has won the most medals in the World Series. However, Zhou Chunxiu has never won the gold medal in the National Games before, the 2005 National Games won the silver medal, and the 2009 11th National Games ranked fourth.