Last night, China Central Television (CCTV) has announced the names of the best Chinese athletes of the year 2015 in all sports that won the prize CCTV Sports Awards, which is the Chinese version of the Laureus World Sports Awards: the swimmer Ning Zetao and the walker Liu Hong.

The 23-year-old Ning, also the 2014 award winner, won the world 100-meter freestyle title in 47.84 seconds in Kazan, Russia, on August 6, 2015, becoming the first man from Asia to win a medal of any color in the blue-ribbon event at the world championships since 1973.

Liu Hong, 28, chopped more than one minute off her personal best to win the 20km race walk in one hour, 24 minutes, 38 seconds, a new world record, at the Spanish leg of the 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge in La Coruna, Spain in June. She was also the winner of this event at the world championships in Beijing.

To note that while the Chinese swimmer was able to attend the award ceremony last night, Liu Hong has had to satisfy the spectators of his Country only with a connection by internet, as she are training in San Lorenzo (Italy) with all the team coached by Sandro Damilano.

CCTV has hired a satellite television for the duration of broadcasting of three hours and sent a team to San Lorenzo.

The news in the english edition of chinese web-site News: click here

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The news in the official web-site of China Athletics Association: click here

Photos of awarded in chinese web-sire Sina: click here

 

 

 

 

The interview of the crew CCTV and how it looks on Chinese screens

 

 

 

 

Liu Hong in training in San Lorenzo