Friday 12th November at 7.00 pm – Fondazione Riccardo Catella – ground floor
Atletica Maratona, Nuoto / Athletics Marathon, Swimming
China Media Group (CMG)
P. R. OF CHINA 2021, 30 min
Director/Regista: Jieni Cheng
Editing/Montaggio: Jieni Cheng
Photos/Foto: Xuan Li, Mingyan Zhang
Voice Off/Voce Narrante: Zheng CUI
Producer/Produttore: Hong Dong
An extremely young swimming event in China, marathon swimming only made it into the program of the National Games of China in 2013. The long distance multiple event swimmer Xin Xin participated to the race for the first time and came out a national champion. In 2019, history was made by Xin when she won China’s very first gold medal in marathon swimming at the World Aquatics Championships. At the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, Xin Xin was the one and only Chinese swimmer to compete in the event. After thousands of days of solitary training, she had finally swam herself into that piece of open water that had been her dream for years.