China Sports Daily and People’s Daily Sports Department jointly rated the top ten domestic and international sports news in 2023.

Chengdu Universiade, Hangzhou Asian Games and Asian Paralympic Games were held successively, and achieved carbon neutrality for the first time in the history of the Asian Games. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution of Olympic Truce for the Paris Olympic Games … Recently, the top ten domestic and international sports news in 2023 jointly evaluated by China Sports Daily and People’s Daily Sports Department was announced.

In 2023, domestic sports were brilliant. The Asian Games in Hangzhou is the largest and highest-level international comprehensive sports event successfully held in China after the 20th victory of the Party. The China sports delegation achieved the goal of training troops for the Paris Olympic Games while achieving impressive results. Chengdu Universiade and the first Youth Association were successfully held, which became a stage for young athletes to communicate with each other. China athletes made great achievements, China swimmers made breakthroughs in the World Championships, Qin Haiyang became the new "frog king" and broke the men’s 200-meter breaststroke world record, China rhythmic gymnastics won the first world championship, China women’s basketball team won the Asian championship again after 12 years, Guo Yu defended the Sudirman Cup, Guo Ping won five championships in the World Championships, and Ding Liren won the first chess world chess champion for China, all of which showed that China athletes inherited and carried forward the Chinese sportsmanship. In addition, "Village BA" and "Village Super" contribute to rural revitalization, and the official launch of the "Ode to Chinese Sports Spirit" project is also a hot topic in the domestic sports field this year.

In 2023, international sports events continued. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution of Olympic Truce for the Paris Olympic Games, and the Los Angeles Olympic Games added new fashion items such as flag football and squash. Spain and Germany won the women’s and men’s world cups for the first time, while Morocco, Portugal and Spain became the main host countries of the 2030 football world cup. Personally, Messi, Djokovic and Kiptum have all become the creators of historical records in their respective project fields.

The annual top ten domestic and international sports news jointly evaluated by this newspaper and the People’s Daily Sports Department has been carried out for many years, which is an important year-end inventory of sports media.

domestic

The 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou and the 4th Asian Games for the Disabled were successfully held.

From September 23rd to October 8th, and from October 22nd to October 28th, the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou and the 4th Asian Games for the Disabled were successfully held. The Supreme Leader of president attended the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games and announced the opening of the Asian Games. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, Zhejiang Province and Hangzhou City have made solid progress in various preparations, carefully organized and guaranteed the games, and ensured that "the two Asian Games are equally wonderful". At the Hangzhou Asian Games, the China sports delegation won 201 gold medals and 383 medals, which was the best result in the history of participating in the Asian Games and topped the gold medal list for the 11th time. At the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, the China sports delegation won 214 gold medals and 521 medals, ranking first in the gold medal list and medal list of the Asian Para Games for the fourth time. The number of gold medals and medals was the best in history.

The 31st Summer Universiade in Chengdu was successfully held.

From July 28th to August 8th, the 31st Summer Universiade was successfully held in Chengdu. The top leaders of president attended the opening ceremony and announced the opening of the Universiade. Chengdu Universiade is the first major international sports event held in China after the 20th Party Congress. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, Sichuan Province and Chengdu City, after a long period of careful preparation, have reached international standards in terms of venue facilities, competition organization and service guarantee, and achieved world-class status. China adheres to the simple, safe and wonderful concept of hosting the Games, and earnestly fulfills its solemn promise, which has won wide acclaim from the families of the General Assembly and the international community. China sports delegation won 103 gold medals and 178 medals, ranking first in the gold medal list and medal list.

The first National Student (Youth) Games was successfully held.

On November 15th, the first National Student (Youth) Games ended in Nanning, Guangxi. The final of this YYWCA lasted more than four months, with 101 delegations and more than 20,000 athletes participating. Six of them surpassed 11 world youth records for 23 times, two of them surpassed 3 Asian records for one team, and one of them surpassed 2 Asian youth records for 8 times, and created a number of national records, national youth records and national youth records in shooting, weightlifting and track and field.

China players have achieved excellent results in many world championships.

In July, at the World Swimming Championships held in Fukuoka, Japan, China ranked first in the gold medal list with 20 gold medals. The China swimming team not only won 5 gold, 3 silver and 8 bronze medals, but also broke records in many events. The China diving team won 12 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals, and the China swimming team won 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals, including two breakthrough gold medals, namely, collective skill self-selection and mixed doubles free self-selection.

In August, in the collective individual final of the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Valencia, Spain, China won five individual gold medals with 36.550 points, which was the first time that China Rhythmic Gymnastics Team won the world championship, and achieved historic breakthroughs in many events in the World Championships with 1 gold and 2 silver.

At the 2023 Riyadh World Weightlifting Championship held in September, the China weightlifting team won 20 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 3 bronze medals, and three people broke five world records. Among them, Liu Huanhua won two gold medals in the men’s 102 kg clean and jerk and the total score, and the China men’s weightlifting team won the world championship with a total score of more than 100 kg after 26 years.

China won the Asian Cup again after 12 years.

On July 2nd, local time, in the final of the 2023 FIBA Women’s Basketball Asian Cup in Sydney, Australia, China defeated the Japanese women’s basketball team 73-71 to win the championship. China women’s basketball team won the championship trophy again after 12 years, and ended the Japanese women’s basketball team’s sweep of the championship in the past five events.

China table tennis continues to climb to the top.

On May 21st, 2023 Sudirman Cup World Badminton Mixed Team Championship came to an end in Suzhou Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, Jiangsu Province. China defeated South Korea 3-0 with a total score, successfully defended its title and won the championship for the third time in a row, which is also the 13th time that China won the cup in the 18th tournament.

On May 28th, local time, the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships ended in Durban, South Africa. China team won all five titles in men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles in this World Table Tennis Championships, and achieved a clean sweep again after the Budapest World Table Tennis Championships in 2019.

Ding Liren won the men’s individual world championship in chess.

On April 30th, local time, in the 2023 FIFA World Championship held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, Ding Liren, a China player, defeated Russian player Nepomniach with a total score of 9.5-8.5 after 14 slow chess matches and 4 fast chess matches, becoming the 17th individual world champion in the history of chess. With China’s male chess player crowned the title of world chess king for the first time, the "four-step" goal that China’s chess world has been struggling for 35 years has finally been achieved.

Qieyang Shijie, Su Bingtian and other China players won Olympic medals.

On the evening of October 4th, at the Olympic Sports Center Stadium of the track and field venue of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Chinese Olympic Committee held an award ceremony to award medals to Qieyang Shijie, Liu Hong and Lv Xiuzhi who won gold, silver and bronze medals in the women’s 20km walk in London Olympic Games and to Tang Xingqiang, Xie Zhenye, Su Bingtian and Wu Zhiqiang who won bronze medals in the men’s 4x100m relay in Tokyo Olympic Games.

Rural sports events are widely concerned.

Since the beginning of this year, rural sports events represented by "village BA" and "village supermarket" have become the focus of people’s attention. At the end of October, the finals of the 2023 National and American Country Basketball Competition ("Village BA") started in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. Tens of thousands of spectators came from all over the country to watch the wonderful games and participate in the live interaction. According to statistics, driven by "Village BA", Taijiang County received more than 2 million tourists in one year, and realized tourism income of more than 2.3 billion yuan.

This year, the State Sports General Administration and other departments issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting Sports to Help Rural Revitalization" to support local governments to vigorously develop sports events and boost rural revitalization.

The project "Ode to Chinese Sports Spirit" was launched

On July 7th, the launching ceremony of "Ode to Chinese Sports Spirit" was held in Beijing. The State Sports General Administration launched the project to better carry forward the Chinese sports spirit and help build a sports power. During the Asian Games in Hangzhou, the State Sports General Administration held a series of sports and cultural activities, including "Inheritance-Stories of the Asian Games" interview, "China Sports Culture Exhibition" and excellent sports film screening.

international

Hangzhou Asian Games, Asian Para Games and Chengdu Universiade to Achieve Carbon Neutrality

On December 6th, Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee and Asian Paralympic Games Organizing Committee announced that after accounting, evaluation and certification, Hangzhou Asian Games and Asian Paralympic Games had emitted 882,900 tons of greenhouse gases, used green electricity to reduce greenhouse gases by 22,000 tons, and accepted the carbon offset index of 1,099,900 tons donated by the society, achieving carbon neutrality for the first time in the history of Asian Games and Asian Paralympic Games. On December 22nd, the Report on the Green and Low-carbon Games of Chengdu Universiade was released, announcing that the Chengdu Universiade had achieved 32,000 tons of carbon reduction and carbon neutrality.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Olympic Truce Resolution for the Paris Olympic Games.

On November 21st, local time, the 78th UN General Assembly adopted the resolution of Olympic Truce for the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. The president of the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee introduced the Olympic Truce resolution on behalf of the French government, and the President of the International Olympic Committee Bach delivered a speech calling on the General Assembly to adopt the resolution. In the end, the resolution was adopted by an overwhelming majority of 118 votes in favor, 2 abstentions and 0 votes against.

In 2028, the Los Angeles Olympic Games will add five major events, including flag football.

On October 16th, local time, the 141st plenary session of the International Olympic Committee held in Mumbai, India, passed a resolution to add flag football, squash, baseball and softball, cricket and stick tennis as official events of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Baseball and softball, cricket and tennis were once Olympic events, while squash and flag football were included in the Olympic events for the first time.

The Women’s World Cup was successfully held in Australia and New Zealand, and Spain won the championship.

On August 20th, local time, the 2023 Women’s World Cup came to an end. This year’s Women’s World Cup was jointly held by Australia and New Zealand, which was the first time in the history of the Women’s World Cup that two countries held it. New Zealand held the opening match and Australia held the final. In the final, Spain beat England 1-0, winning the Women’s World Cup for the first time in its history, becoming the fifth team to win the championship after the United States, Norway, Germany and Japan.

Germany won the men’s basketball World Cup.

On September 10th, local time, in the final of the 2023 Men’s Basketball World Cup held in Manila, Philippines, Germany defeated Serbia 83-77 and won the first men’s basketball World Cup with a record of winning all eight games. In the third-place battle, the United States lost to Canada, ranking fourth, which is also the second consecutive World Cup medals missed by the American men’s basketball team.

The 2030 Men’s Football World Cup is planned to be jointly organized by six countries on three continents.

On October 4th, local time, FIFA held a board video conference at its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, announcing that the 2030 Men’s Football World Cup will be jointly organized by six countries on three continents. Morocco, Portugal and Spain will be the main host countries. At the same time, since 2030 coincides with the centenary of the first World Cup, FIFA decided to hold a celebration in Uruguay, the venue of the 1930 World Cup. Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay will each host a competition at the opening stage of the 2030 World Cup.

Manchester City won the Champions League for the first time and achieved the annual "five crowns"

On June 10th, local time, in the final of the 2022-2023 European Football Champions League held in Istanbul, Turkey, Manchester City of England defeated Inter Milan of Italy 1-0, winning the Champions League for the first time in team history. On December 22nd, local time, Manchester City beat Brazil’s Fluminense 4-0 to win the World Club Cup final. So far, in 2023, Manchester City won the Premier League champion, FA Cup champion, Champions League champion, European Super Cup champion and World Club Cup champion, achieving the annual "five crowns".

Messi won the Golden Globe Award for the eighth time

On October 30, local time, in the 2023 Golden Globe Awards Ceremony held by French Football magazine, Argentine player Messi won the Golden Globe Award for the eighth time, once again setting a new record for the number of times he won the award. This year’s Golden Globe Awards are based on the performance of the 2022-2023 season, during which Messi led the Argentine team to win the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 championship. On February 27th, local time and May 8th, local time this year, Messi also won the FIFA Player of the Year Award and Lawrence Best Male Athlete Award respectively, and his Argentine national men’s soccer team was awarded the Best Team Award.

Djokovic set many records in tennis.

On September 10th, local time, in the men’s singles final of the US Open, Serbian star Djokovic defeated Russian player Medvedev 3-0, won the men’s singles championship of the US Open for the fourth time, and accumulated the number of individual Grand Slam champions to 24, surpassing American star Serena Williams, who won 23 titles, ranking first in the era of solitary open. Djokovic also won the year-end finals and finished the whole season as the world’s number one for the eighth time.

Kiptum set a new world record for men’s marathon.

On October 8, local time, in the Chicago Marathon, Kenyan Kiptum set a new world record for men’s marathon in 2 hours, 0 minutes and 35 seconds and won the championship. This achievement improved the previous record of 2 hours, 1 minute and 9 seconds set by Kenyan star Kipchoge by 34 seconds. Kiptum, 23, became the first marathon runner to break 2 hours and 01 minutes in an official race. (From December 26th, China Sports Daily, 01 edition)