HANGZHOU, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) — Host China demonstrated its energy within the pool as its group bagged an Asian Games report excessive 28 gold medals in swimming in Hangzhou, 9 greater than what they acquired on the Jakarta Games 5 years in the past.
South Korea claimed six golds, six silvers and 10 bronzes whereas Japan, who tied China with 19 gold medals in Jakarta, suffered a low type and ranked third within the medal tally with 5 golds, 10 silvers and 15 bronzes.
China’s swimming aces are of their high type who additionally clinched 21 silver and 9 bronze medals in Hangzhou. As the Paris Games is just 10 months to go, they took the Asian Games as a trial and have already set their sights on the Olympic Games.
Electric Zhang Yufei collected six gold medals whereas Qin Haiyang and Xu Jiayu each accomplished hat-trick of their signature occasions.
Despite having a chilly, Olympic champion Zhang grabbed her sixth gold within the Games on Friday, profitable the ladies’s 50m butterfly with a brand new Games report of 25.10 seconds, surpassing the earlier mark of 25.55 set by Japan’s Rikako Ikee on the Jakarta Asiad.
“It was the first time that I competed with an illness, so it affected my performance a bit,” admitted 25-year-old Zhang.
“I will give myself 95 points out of 100 for my performances at these Games,” she mentioned, including that she hopes to do higher in Paris.
Qin stored his high type, matching his unprecedented world championships exploits by sweeping the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke titles in Hangzhou. He swam a 26.25 within the 50m heats, the tenth quickest time ever solely behind British world report holder Adam Peaty who owns the primary 9 quickest swims within the historical past of males’s 50m breaststroke.
“Before the Asian Games, I didn’t think about how many golds I will get, I just wanted to do what I can in every event. It was more about letting nature take its course,” Qin mentioned.
Qin jumped to fame this summer time when he grew to become the primary man in historical past to comb all three breaststroke titles at a world championships in Fukuoka. He additionally shattered Australian Zac Stubblety-Cook’s world mark within the 200m breast with a blistering 2:05.48.
“Now it’s just a start. I believe I can perform at a higher level at the Paris Olympics,” he declared.
Teen sensation Pan Zhanle, 19, proved himself by profitable the lads’s 100m freestyle and have become solely the fifth man ever beneath 47 seconds in 100m.
Veteran swimmers additionally delighted the house crowd. London Olympic double champion Ye Shiwen is anticipating one other peak in her profession after profitable the ladies’s 200m breast within the first time at a significant competitors. The 29-year-old Wang Shun swam the seventh quickest 200m medley in historical past. Backstroke specialist Xu collected 5 gold, simply the identical with Jakarta Games.
South Korea surpassed Japan within the medal tally. Kim Woo-min gained the lads’s 400m freestyle on Friday, turning into solely the third swimmer from the nation to win three titles at a single Asiad. Baek In-chul shocked the swimming world along with his 50m butterfly gold medal with an Asian report time of 23.29.
Siobhan Haughey from Hong Kong, China confirmed she is the world high freestyler by profitable the ladies’s 100m and 200m free.
Japan’s swimming star Ikee Rikako, who was identified with leukaemia in 2019, took a bronze within the ladies’s 50m fly and helped Japan declare a silver within the ladies’s 4X100m free relay.