Wang Rui

2023 Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering

won the gold medal in the women's first division 100-meter backstroke at the 2023 National Swimming Championships for College Students with a time of 1 minute 16.29 seconds.

Unfaded love for swimming from beginning to end

Since kindergarten, Wang Rui has been closely related to swimming. Starting from primary school, she persisted in training for at least two hours a day, which strengthened her physique and honed her willpower. This persistent effort allowed her to become a national first-class athlete in her first year of junior high school. After entering the senior high school, Wang Rui still insisted on setting aside time every day for swimming, but the heavy academic pressure forced her to put aside her swimming career in the second year of high school. Her passion for swimming kept burning brightly. After entering university, Wang Rui naturally joined the Zhejiang University swimming team with outstanding skills. Despite facing various difficulties such as time conflicts and insufficient training time before competitions, Wang Rui's love for swimming pools and waterways never fades. Almost every night after finishing a day of intense study, she immersed herself in the swimming pool and actively trained.

In the 2023 National Swimming Championships for College Students held in mid-December, Wang Rui represented Zhejiang University to participate in the competition. At the beginning of the competition, she saw many athletes with high levels, but she did not make significant breakthroughs in her spare training time. In addition, she participated in a backstroke event that she was not good at, which made her very nervous.

During the final, Wang Rui felt a bit tired in the later stage. But the indomitable spirit of hard struggle in her heart supported her to persevere in the icy waterway, ultimately winning the championship with a performance one second faster than her best performance in the preliminary round.

Dream of Being accepted to ZJU fulfilled with a shining heart

Swimming has been Wang Rui's perseverance from childhood to adulthood, and Zhejiang University is also her unchanging pursuit. The seeds of Zhejiang University were planted early in the heart of Wang Rui when she was a little child. The parents of her who are ZJU alumni, the enlightenment coach who had close ties to the Zhejiang University swimming team, and the other ZJU alumni around her constantly showed Wang Rui the charm of Zhejiang University.