The height of 2.33 meters finally became the watershed between the top players in tonight's men's high jump final.
At this height, not only the contestants who originally seemed to be struggling, but also Abdullah who had always maintained a perfect state before, also dropped the horizontal bar while clearing the pole under the attention of everyone at the scene.
When Abdullah failed to clear the bar, there was a huge exclamation from the audience. The tens of thousands of Qatari spectators present had never expected that Abdullah would fail at this stage.
As the holder of the current world best result in the men's high jump this year, Abdullah has had a remarkable performance this year, winning multiple championships in the Diamond League. Not long ago, he won the Diamond League Men's High Jump Final Championship at the final of this year's Diamond League.
It was this championship he won in the Diamond League final not long ago that made the Qatari people even more confident in him. The audience who came to watch the game tonight had great confidence in Abdullah. Everyone was waiting for him to win the championship in this game tonight, or even break the tournament record.
Abdullah's failed jump caused an uproar in the audience, and even the two Qatari commentators on the scene exclaimed in surprise.
“This was a completely unexpected failure. Abdullah’s ability is definitely beyond this. Perhaps the pressure on the scene made him feel a little nervous. In short, I hope Abdullah can relax and pass the bar smoothly in the next second attempt!”
"We must know that Abdullah is fully capable of jumping over the bar in front of him. He just lacked a little bit of luck. May God bless him."
In China, Shao Minyi and Li Sen from the sports channel were relatively objective when facing Abdullah's condition. They discussed the pressure Abdullah was facing at the moment and how he had just won the men's high jump championship in the Diamond League finals with good condition not long ago.
It is true that Abdullah is in excellent shape this year, but an athlete's competitive state will of course have ups and downs. October, according to previous years, is already the off-season for track and field athletes. From the perspective of the athletes' physical inertia, this is also a time when the athletes' state declines.
Although in order to cooperate with the holding time of this year's World Athletics Championships, the athletes have adjusted their respective conditions and tried their best to continue their best condition into the World Championships cycle, but this adjustment of condition may not be completely successful.
It is also because of this that, in this World Championships, although most of the top players maintained their respective results and forms, the number of players who broke the tournament records and world records in this competition was much less than in previous World Championships.
"In fact, apart from the condition, at a height of 2.33 meters, no athlete can guarantee that he can successfully clear the bar every time. There is a high probability that Abdallah's jump was just an ordinary mistake. The uproar and nervous reaction of the audience may further increase the psychological pressure on the athlete, which will not have a very good impact on his next two attempts."
After Abdallah, Stratso from Belarus also made his first attempt of 2.33 meters and successfully cleared the bar.
When all the players completed their first trial jump, only Dunasev, Wang Shen and Stratso still maintained 100% one-time clearance.
At the beginning of the second round of trial jumps, Cuba's Aguilagos once again stood at the starting point of the run-up area, but his state was obviously no longer as confident and excited as in the first trial jump. In this round of trial jumps, he regained a tense body state, so that when his take-off leg pushed off the ground to complete the jumping posture, many people saw Aguilagos' failure.
Sure enough, in this round of trial jumps, Aguilagos' body was unable to completely clear the bar. His take-off height was obviously insufficient, preventing him from successfully clearing the bar. Even after he passed the bar in the air with his shoulders over it, he tried hard to straighten his hips and adjust his posture, but he still failed in the end.
This failure made Aguilagos seem a little more depressed. He seemed to regret his carelessness in the first jump, and kept thinking, "If only I hadn't made that mistake in the first jump."
After Aguilagos, Morais also failed in his second attempt at a height of 2.33 meters. Because he had already failed once at a height of 2.30 meters, he was officially eliminated after this attempt. His final valid score was only 2.27 meters.
The athletes on the field took turns to appear on stage. In the audience, most of the audience only paid attention to Abdullah's second attempt. Finally, under the attention of the audience, Abdullah stood at the starting point again. However, in this attempt, Abdullah still failed.
The Qatari audience at the scene seemed unwilling to believe this fact - two consecutive attempts at a height of 2.33 meters failed, which was already very dangerous for Abdullah.
It is not only a question of whether he can successfully clear the bar in the third attempt. The bigger problem is that even if Abdullah successfully clears the bar at a height of 2.33 meters, he has already performed two more rounds of attempts than Dunasev, Wang Shen, Strateso and others. While affecting his own condition, the more serious problem is that even if Abdullah can maintain the same bar clearance score as the others in the next attempt at a height of 2.35 meters, he will still be at a disadvantage.
For a moment, the Qatari audience in the stands seemed to have suffered a heavy blow, and the two Qatari commentators on the scene also looked very depressed.
In the third round of trial jumps, Aguilagos was the first to appear, but he was also the first to fail, ending his journey in this World Championships. From the 100% one-time clearance in the first few jumps, he was once regarded as a dark horse, to the first unexpected failure at a height of 2.33 meters, and then his momentum was dampened and he was eliminated.
Aji Lagos can be considered a legendary player in tonight’s game.
Another neutral athlete, Dmitrev, also made his third attempt and was successful. His success brought more pressure to Abdullah, who was the last to make his third attempt.
However, or perhaps the pressure had just reached its limit, after his third appearance, Abdullah's condition was obviously much better than the serious and stiff state in the second round of attempts. After a long, deep breath, he raised his hand to signal the start of his third attempt. Under the breath-holding gaze of all the Qatari spectators at the scene, this time, he finally successfully crossed the 2.33-meter bar.
At this point, the three rounds of trial jumps at a height of 2.33 meters were all completed, and the number of players on the field finally decreased from 8 to 5. Among them, Abdullah and Dmitrev were both at a clear disadvantage because of the three rounds of trial jumps at a height of 2.33 meters.
At this stage, the high jump referee finally did not maintain the 3cm bar raising amplitude for too long. In this bar raising, the bar height was adjusted from 2.33 meters to 2.35 meters.
All the spectators who were still following the event had already understood in their hearts at this point - the competition had entered the final medal competition stage.
In the audience, if Qiu Wen was still yelling and cheering for Wang Shen with great energy at the beginning, then at this stage, he seemed a little wilted.
The entire high jump competition takes a long time, especially when it comes to high-level competitions like today. When the bar is raised little by little, the hearts of the spectators are also lifted up little by little like the raised bar.
Compared to events like sprinting where the outcome is decided in a short period of time, the high jump final is a torture to the athletes' mentality again and again.
Only by withstanding the pressure of every jump and performing better and better in the later stages of the game can you win the final victory in this environment full of top players.
At the competition site, in the preparation area, Wang Shen was sitting in his seat, hands clasped, waiting for the first round of trial jumps at a height of 2.35 meters to begin.
Plop, plop.
This is the sound of his heartbeat.
The expression on his face was still very calm and he seemed very composed. However, at this stage, which contestant dared to say that he was truly fearless?
However, he was used to disguising himself with the illusion of calmness and composure. When he was young, facing his father's reconstituted family, he used this disguise to tell everyone that he was a child who could face his father's new marriage rationally. He also told his grandfather and uncles that he was living a good life.
As he grew up, he entered the field of high jump. Facing his grandfather's expectations, he was calm and composed, telling him that he had adapted very well in the team and did not encounter any problems.
His calm image and easy smile seemed to be habits ingrained in his bones. With this attitude, he seemed to gain everyone's trust, making people feel that he was invincible. Even he himself believed in himself.
But in fact.
Wang Shen recalled his childhood memories. He remembered that he was just an ordinary kid who loved to act coquettishly and playfully.
Shaking his head, Wang Shen threw away the irrelevant information from his mind and looked at the horizontal bar in front of him again - a height of 2.35 meters. He had conquered such a height in the arena before, so he thought that he must have the opportunity to conquer it today.
With this thought in mind, Wang Shen came to the horizontal bar. At this time, the neutral athlete Dunasev from Russia had completed his first trial jump. This terrible Russian still maintained a 100% one-time clearing rate at a height of 2.35 meters. After he successfully cleared the bar, he showed a confident smile, as if he was already welcoming his victory in advance.
Wang Shen adjusted his breathing, made a simple gesture in the direction of the referee, and then after a little preparation, he started this trial jump.
During the run-up, facing a height of 2.35 meters, Wang Shen subconsciously increased his running speed. However, just before reaching the taking-off board, his swinging leg made a slight mistake when he landed and put his leg down at the last step of the run-up, which affected the rapid forward movement of his body's center of gravity in the final stage.
not good.
Wang Shen's heart skipped a beat, but he still quickly completed the swing, lifting, and kicking of his take-off leg. After the swing leg exploded with power, he tried to increase and adjust the height of his jump by adjusting the swing of his swing leg. He could clearly feel that his jump height was not enough this time, and his head and shoulder blades barely cleared the bar. However, he tried hard to straighten his upper body, and although he tried his best to make his body reach a perfect curve, his torso still touched the bar.
When his shoulder blades hit the cushion, the bar fell to the ground almost at the same time as him.
Wang Shen failed in his first attempt at a height of 2.35 meters.
When seeing Wang Shen's failed attempt, many people in the Chinese athletes section of the audience expressed regret, but their performance was still relatively restrained. Just looking closely at their expressions, one could see that they were nervous.
"What a pity for Wang Shen's jump." Li Sen couldn't help but sigh: "In the previous jumps, Wang Shen showed a high degree of stability. It's a pity that he made a mistake in this jump. This will be disadvantageous for his next game."
As if to prove the accuracy of Li Sen's words, Abdullah, Dmitrev and Stratso all successfully cleared the bar on their first attempt. In this round of 2.35-meter attempts, only Wang Shen made a mistake.
This situation shocked all the domestic audiences. Some of them, unable to bear the huge pressure of the competition, even turned off the live broadcast and dared not watch Wang Shen's second attempt at the competition.
Fortunately, Wang Shen successfully crossed the bar in his second attempt, but even so, it could not make up for his mistake at the height of 2.35 meters.
2.35 meters, this was the height that everyone thought would decide the medals, but in tonight's competition, not even a single athlete was eliminated. This unexpected result made all the spectators who were concerned about their country's athletes feel anxious, but for high jump enthusiasts, tonight's competition was a rare feast.
Finally, when the horizontal bar rose to a height of 2.37 meters, Dunasev from Russia failed to clear the bar for the first time. However, due to his previous advantage, Dunasev did not look particularly nervous.
Wang Shen, who appeared next, frowned.
2.37 meters, this height is almost the limit for Wang Shen. In daily training, Wang Shen has also tried to jump at this height, but even when he is in full physical condition, 2.37 meters is still a very difficult height to conquer.
And now, the process of this final has reached the final stage. The physical consumption brought by each round of trial jumps, the disadvantage in performance after the failure of the 2.35-meter height trial jump, and the mental exhaustion brought by each trial jump.
Even Wang Shen, who usually maintained a calm and composed demeanor, now had sweat all over his forehead and a solemn expression on his face.
For him, this jump will be the decisive one to determine whether he can make up for his previous disadvantage.
Physical fatigue told Wang Shen that if he could not make perfect use of his remaining physical strength in the first attempt, then after this attempt, his hope of clearing the bar would become increasingly distant.
With the determination to achieve his goal in one go, Wang Shen started his run-up.
Having learned from the failed take-off in the previous round, Wang Shen subconsciously strengthened his control over his running steps in this round. When he reached the last step of the run-up, his leg movements were quickly braked, quickly converting the lateral power of the run-up into vertical upward force. As the take-off leg exploded with force to push off the ground, the swinging leg also quickly transformed from the extension of the hind leg to an upward swing with assisting power.
Different from the previous mistake, this time, Wang Shen, who was jumping in the air, could feel that his jump was perfect from the start!
After a series of movements, Wang Shen's body seemed to be lifted into the air by a force coming from the ground. His slender arms guided his body to flip over the horizontal bar, and then everyone saw that his body successfully flipped over the horizontal bar in an elegant arc.
Wang Shen, 2.37 meters, first attempt, successful!
"Success! Wang Shen's 2.37 meter jump was a success on his first attempt!"
In the commentary booth of the sports channel, Shao Minyi and Li Sen both raised their voices noticeably when they saw Wang Shen succeed.
Before this successful jump, Shao Minyi and Li Sen even seemed to be a little restrained in their comments. Seeing Wang Shen's success, Shao Minyi finally dared to say boldly: "Wang Shen's success in his first attempt at 2.37 meters will most likely bring him a medal in this competition!"
It wasn't just Shao Minyi and Li Sen, the audience in the sports channel's online live broadcast room also cheered excitedly to celebrate Wang Shen's successful pass.
[2.37 meters!] ! ! Oh shit, 2.37 meters tall, new pb, Lao Wang is good, this wave is stable, right? 】
[Let’s not talk about anything else, at least which card is stable, right? 】
On the public screen of the live broadcast room, the audience on the barrage were discussing whether Wang Shen could get a card after this jump. Although there were many people who were expecting and affirming it, there were also some who jumped out to pour cold water on it.
[…Don’t be too happy, there are still three that haven’t jumped yet. 】
In the last round of 2.35m trial jumps, Wang Shen was the only player with a record of failed attempts. Facing all the other players present, he was at a disadvantage. Although he successfully completed a one-time jump over the bar at a height of 2.37m, this disadvantage would always exist unless all other players failed in their first attempt at 2.37m.
Fortunately, the height of 2.37 meters was indeed beyond the limit that many athletes could cross at the moment. Among the next three athletes, only Abdullah successfully crossed the 2.37 meter bar.
When Abdullah successfully cleared the pole, thunderous cheers rang out from the audience - the failure of several other players and Abdullah's one-time pass basically laid the foundation for Abdullah's victory tonight.
From two consecutive failures at 2.33 meters to consecutive clearings of 2.35 meters and 2.37 meters, this roller coaster-like experience made the audience feel particularly excited.
In the Chinese contestant section of the audience, Jiang Wentao sighed with emotion: "What a pity."
So far, Wang Shen's one-time clearing rate is higher than Abdullah's, but Wang Shen's failure came at the wrong time. The failure in the first attempt at 2.35 meters, if it had come at the 2.33-meter stage, would have been much better than failing at this stage of 2.35 meters.
At present, both Wang Shen and Abdullah have cleared the bar at 2.37 meters in one go, but tracing back to the result of 2.35 meters in height, Wang Shen can only rank second.
After the first round of trial jumps, Wang Shen and Abdullah got some time to rest. In the next two rounds of trial jumps, three contestants headed by Dunasev failed to succeed in two consecutive rounds. Finally, at the height of 2.37 meters, the contestants were finally eliminated to the last two.
Finally, the horizontal bar on the field was raised from 2.37 meters to 2.39 meters. This height appears extremely rarely in the men's high jump competition every year. There are only a handful of athletes in the world who can cross this height, and Dunasev, who was eliminated previously, is one of them.
However, Dunasev, a player who has the ability to jump over 2.39 meters, has been eliminated first, and the remaining players are Wang Shen and Abdallah, two players who have never jumped over 2.39 meters.
When he failed in his last attempt to jump to a height of 2.39 meters, Wang Shen stood up from the cushion, shook his head slightly, and waved towards the audience.
In the end, at a height of 2.39 meters, after three rounds of trial jumps, Wang Shen and Abdullah, whose physical strength had reached the limit, were unable to cross the bar. Abdullah defeated Wang Shen with the advantage of a one-time bar clearance at a height of 2.35 meters and successfully won the men's high jump gold medal in this World Championships.
When Wang Shen returned to his teammates, Qiu Wen was the first to get close to him, clapped his hands hard, massaged his shoulders and back, and acted like a lackey, seeming to be worried that Wang Shen would be depressed because he missed the gold medal in the end.
Wang Shen looked at the group of people in front of him who were concerned about him, smiled, and showed the silver medal on his chest: "The silver one doesn't seem to be powerful enough, will I try to change to a gold one next time?"
In the ten-day World Championships schedule, by the last two days, most of the events left were the decathlon and heptathlon, and there were very few events that were truly exciting.
The men's high jump final can be said to be one of the biggest highlights in the last three days of competition.
In the last two days of the competition, the only event that domestic audiences were most concerned about was the men's 4x400m. The public opinion storm caused by the previous mixed men's and women's 4x400m event was still fresh in their minds. Before this competition, many spectators warned themselves not to make random judgments.
On October 5, in the men's 4x400m sprint relay preliminaries, the 4x400m relay men's team led by Zhang Ziyi once again broke the national record in the event, and advanced to the finals with a time of 3 minutes 01.22 seconds, winning countless cheers.
On October 6, in the men's 4x400m sprint relay final, China's 4x400m relay men's team once again broke the national record that had just been rewritten the day before to 3 minutes 01.07 seconds.
Even so, the Chinese team only finished sixth in the men's 4x400m final, but no matter whether it was Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen, Guo Dun or Li Junhao, when they gave their all and finally knelt on the track, they all heard sighs of satisfaction in their hearts.
Just like Su Bai said - [Step by step, we are moving forward. 】
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