The 13th National Games will be held on August 27 in Tianjin and 17 athletes from Chenzhou will participate in 11 games.
The National Games events include professional athletics and mass games. Chenzhou athletes participated in 8 professional athletic games, including weightlifting, judo, wrestling, swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, martial arts and water polo. Among them, the judo and synchronized swimming games have ended this month. In the games not in progress, Hou Zhihui (48 kg class) and Zhang Wangli (69 kg class) are expected to add 2 gold medals for Hunan team in the weightlifting game. Lei Chun, Zhou Yi, Cao Xin, Wang Jinrui and other master sportsmen are also worth the wait.
At present, the mass games ended in July. Among them, Li Hao and Li Zaixing won two silver medals in the dragon boat race, the 100 meter straight race and the 200 meter straight race; Guo Jingbo won a bronze medal in the softball women's individual event; Deng Qianwen won the fourth place in the Chinese chess women's individual event.
It was reported that the current National Games included the mass games for the first time with the concept of “Benefiting National Games, Healthy China". The all games will last until September 8th.