CHENGDU, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) — Chinese swimmers dominated the swimming competitions and gained 4 out of the six gold medals on provide on the FISU World University Games right here on Wednesday.
Zhang Yufei from Southeast University of China, winner of the 200m butterfly and runner-up within the 100m butterfly on the Tokyo Olympic Games, timed 25.20 seconds, a brand new FISU document, to seize the gold of girls’s 50m butterfly.
Qin Haiyang, who’s a scholar of Tongji University and gained 4 gold medals within the just-ended World Aquatics Championships in Japan in July, reached the best place of the rostrum in males’s 100m breaststroke after clocking 58.92.
Liu Yaxin, representing Shanghai Jiaotong University, took the primary place in girls’s 200m backstroke.
“There are many differences between the World Championships and the FISU Games. In the event, we have more intensive schedule. I was relaxed and the crowd’s support brought me confidence,” Liu mentioned.
In the combined 4x100m medley relay, the workforce of Wang Gukailai, Qin, Zhang and Li Bingjie completed first in 3:44.02, updating the FISU document. Although China solely ranked third after the primary leg, Qin stored chasing and taking Team China to the lead within the second leg.
Neither the runner-up Poland nor the bronze medal winner Italy posed a severe menace to China within the final 200m. Li’s contact threw the viewers of Dong’an Lake Sports Park Aquatics Center into frenzy.
“We were going to celebrate the victory after the relay, however, we haven’t found any proper celebrating ways,” mentioned Zhang.
“I’d like to keep practicing before the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. I will take apart in more competitions before that major event.”
In different swimming finals on Wednesday, Luca Armbruster of Germany touched first in 23.22 in males’s 50m fly, and Italian Simone Stefani pocketed gold in males’s 100m backstroke with 53.95.
All the swimming occasions might be completed on August 7, and 32 extra gold medals might be up for grabs.