2024 CHINESE SHORT COURSE NATIONALS
The 2024 Chinese language Quick Course Nationals rolled on from Wuhan with Solar Jiajun placing up one other highly effective efficiency within the males’s 50m fly.
After delving below the 22-second barrier for his first time ever en path to registering a brand new Asian File in final evening’s semi-final (21.97), 24-year-old Solar shaved off one other .01 to finally clock 21.96 for the gold.
That now represents the brand new Chinese language nationwide and Asian continental file for the Olympian, with Shen Jiahao touching in 22.77 for silver and Wu Shengkai hitting 22.98 for bronze.
Solar stays the #7 performer of all time within the males’s SCM 50 fly occasion.
High 10 Males’s SCM 50 Fly Performers All-Time
- Szebasztian Szabo (HUN) – 21.75, 2021 & Nicholas Santos (BRA) – 21.75, 2018
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- Noe Ponti (SUI) – 21.79, 2023
- Steffan Deibler (GER) – 21.80, 2009
- Roland Schoeman (RSA) – 21.87, 2009
- Chad Le Clos (RSA) – 21.95, 2014
- Solar Jiajun (CHN) – 21.96, 2024
- Dylan Carter (TTO) – 21.98, 2021
- Tom Shields (USA) – 21.99, 2021
- Teong Tzen Wei (SGP) – 22.01, 2022
One other Asian File went down on the ladies’s facet, courtesy of 20-year-old Tang Qianting.
Racing within the semi-final of the ladies’s 100m breast, Olympic medalist Tang crushed a brand new lifetime better of 1:02.66 to assert the highest seed for tomorrow evening’s important occasion. You’ll be able to learn extra about Tang’s spectacular feat right here.
6-time Olympic medalist from Paris Zhang Yufei was within the water tonight as nicely, contesting the ultimate of the ladies’s 50m fly.
After taking the highest seed in final evening’s semi-final with a results of 25.30, 26-year-old Zhang dropped it all the way down to 25.16 to seize the gold forward of the sector.
Wang Yichun was subsequent to the wall in 25.41 and Yu Yiting rounded out the rostrum in 25.46.
Zhang owns the Chinese language nationwide file and Asian continental file together with her lifetime better of 24.71 from the 2022 World Championships when she bagged the bronze.
Reigning 200m breaststroke world champion Dong Zhihao dove in for the semi-finals of the boys’s 100m breast this night.
The 19-year-old scored the highest time in 56.98 to carry almost a one-second benefit over the remainder of his rivals. Qiu Tian hit 57.90 because the 2nd seed whereas Zheng Yinghao touched in 58.06 for the #3 seed.
In response to the World Aquatics database, Dong’s outing right here checks the teenager in as China’s Fifth-swiftest performer in historical past.
Further Notes
- Qian Xinan put up a speedy 56.68, a brand new lifetime finest, to prime the ladies’s 100m again podium. Peng Xuwei earned silver in 56.99 and Zheng Huiyu touched in 57.52 for the bronze.
- The lads’s 100m again noticed Wang Gukailai keep his pole place from final evening’s semi-final, grabbing gold in 50.50. He’s now the #2 performer in Chinese language swimming historical past, sitting solely behind nationwide file holder Xu Jiayu and his PB of 48.88 from 2018.
- Liu Shuhan reaped the highest seed within the girls’s 100m free semi-finals in a time of 52.68. That marked the only outing of the sector below the 53-second barrier.
- The lads’s version of the 100m free noticed He Junyi flip in a time of 47.32 to eke out the highest spot simply .03 forward of Liu Wudi who was subsequent to the wall in 47.35. Then simply .01 was Wang Haoyu in 47.36 to arrange a fierce battle for the gold tomorrow night.
- Within the girls’s 800m free closing, Ma Yonghui hit 8:13.67 because the gold medalist, beating her rivals by almost 8 seconds. She’s now China’s 4th-best performer of all time on this occasion.
