HANGZHOU, May 5 (Xinhua) — 2012 Olympic champion Ye Shiwen set a brand new private greatest within the girls’s 200-meter breaststroke to take victory over the space at China’s National Swimming Championships in Hangzhou right here on Friday.
Ye, 27, led all the way in which and timed two minutes 22.44 seconds to seize her first gold medal of those championships. That time would have introduced her a silver medal eventually yr’s World Championships. Zhu Leiju got here second, virtually 5 seconds behind.
“All my efforts paid off,” mentioned Ye. “I didn’t expect such a good result. It’s my best level in breaststroke.”
Ye surprised the world on the 2012 London Olympic Games the place she swept the 200m and 400m particular person medley golds at simply 16.
In stark distinction, fellow veteran Wu Peng suffered a blow in his comeback as he ranked solely fifth within the males’s 50m butterfly.
“I was not satisfied with my result,” mentioned the 35-year-old Wu, who had retired in 2013 and resumed coaching final yr. “My rhythm was not right in the competition. It might be the last event in my career, but I don’t want to say goodbye yet.”
Sun Jiajun and Wang Changhao each touched first in 23.41. Chen Juner got here third in 23.70.
2020 Olympic champion Wang Shun ended all his competitions on the National Championships on Friday with 4 golds and a silver medal. The 29-year-old helped Zhejiang to win the boys’s 4x100m freestyle relay in 3:15.53 with teammates Hong Jinquan, Fei Liwei and Pan Zhanle, the 100m and 200m freestyle winner.
Fei, winner of the boys’s 1500m freestyle, additionally dominated the 800m freestyle in 7:49.97.
In the boys’s 200m breaststroke, Qin Haiyang, who broke the boys’s 100m breaststroke Asian report on Tuesday, timed 2:07.55 to grab the gold, whereas within the girls’s 50m freestyle, Cheng Yujie stormed to gold with 24.53. Hebei received the ladies’s 4x200m freestyle relay in 7:52.49.
Running from May 1 to six, the National Championships additionally function a qualification occasion for the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan in July and the Hangzhou Asian Games.