Swimming World Youth Championships: The Chinese team won one silver and one bronze 2023-09-10 09:24:11.0 Source: Xinhuanet Author: Zhang Tianlang
The 2023 World Youth Swimming Championships ended on the fifth day of competition in Netanya, Israel, on the 8th. Chinese team players Zhang Zhanshuo and Mao Yihan won silver and bronze medals in the men’s 400-meter medley and women’s 1500-meter freestyle events respectively.
Zhang Zhanshuo, who ranked fifth in the preliminaries, staged a wonderful comeback in the finals of the day. He was still ranked fourth at the end of the first 300 meters, but then he performed well in the freestyle stage, where he is good at, and finally finished second in 4 minutes, 12 seconds and 44 seconds. Japanese player Tomoyuki Matsushita won the championship with a time of 4 minutes, 10 seconds and 97 seconds and broke the competition record.
The competition in the women’s 1500-meter freestyle final was fierce. Except for the American player Hurst who won the championship with a time of 16 minutes, 09 seconds and 37, the gap between the second and fifth place was very small. 14-year-old Mao Yihan finally swam 16 minutes, 18.76 seconds and won the bronze medal. This was her second medal at this World Youth Championship.
This year’s World Youth Championship men’s 100-meter butterfly champion, Denmark’s Pugao continued his good form and won the men’s 50-meter butterfly gold medal in 23.50 seconds. Australia’s Anderson won the women’s 50-meter backstroke gold medal in 28.01 seconds. Four of her teammates swam 3 minutes, 36.52 seconds in the women’s 4X100-meter freestyle relay final, beating the American team to win the championship.
2023-09-10 01:24:11
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