HANGZHOU, May 4 (Xinhua) — Olympic champion Zhang Yufei stormed to win the ladies’s 100m butterfly at China’s National Swimming Championships right here on Thursday.
Zhang, winner of the 200m fly and runner-up within the 100m fly on the Tokyo Olympic Games, timed 56.48 to seize the gold. Her time is the world’s quickest time within the occasion to this point this yr. She additionally gained the 200m fly in Hangzhou on Monday.
Yu Yiting ranked second in 57.51, whereas Wang Yichun got here third in 57.85. Yu additionally took half within the 400m medley later within the day and snatched the gold in 4:35.61.
Pan Zhanle, who broke the lads’s 100m freestyle Asian document on Monday, got here from behind to win the lads’s 200m freestyle in 1:44.65, additionally the world’s quickest time within the occasion to this point in 2023. Wang Shun got here second in 1:45.71, having led early on earlier than being overtaken by Pan after 100m.
“I didn’t expect to surpass Wang and I was quite nervous in the competition,” mentioned Pan. “I hope I can achieve good result in the event in the Asian Games at home.”
In the lads’s 100m fly, Wang Changhao touched first in 51.73, with Sun Jiajun and Chen Juner rating second and third respectively.
Wang Xue’er entered 59 seconds within the ladies’s 100m backstroke as she timed 58.99 to win the occasion. Wan Letian and Peng Xuwei have been second and third respectively.
Also on Thursday, Yang Chang gained the ladies’s 100m breaststroke in 1:07.80, far behind the occasion’s nationwide document of 1:05.32. Guangdong gained the blended 4X100m medley relay title in 3:46.35.
The National Championships, operating from May 1 to six, additionally serves as a qualification for the Swimming World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan in July and the Hangzhou Asian Games in September.