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He Shibei Makes History in Women’s 200m Freestyle, Wins Gold at Hangzhou Asian Games

[Sports Road Hangzhou Direct Attack]He Shibei (Siobhan) returned to the swimming pool tonight and appeared in the women’s 200-meter freestyle final. She easily swam 1 minute, 54 seconds and 12 seconds to win the gold medal. After the Tokyo Olympics, she once again contributed to the swimming team in the swimming pool. The Asian Games made history.

Siobhan, who holds the Asian record for women’s 200m freestyle (1:53.92), won the first place in the group with a time of 2:00.75 in the Liuli swim in the preliminary round this morning, and advanced to the finals with a total score of 5th. The result was from the head to the belt. The swimmer easily swam 1 minute, 54 seconds and 12 seconds in a super-class posture, breaking the conference record and winning the gold medal. This is the first gold medal for the swimming team in the history of the Asian Games.

As for the national team representative Li Bingjie, she won the silver medal 1.88 seconds behind, while another mainland swimmer Liu Yaxin won the bronze medal. Siobhan will move to another main event tomorrow morning, the women’s 100 freestyle preliminary round, and will make history again at any time.

In this regard, the head of the Hong Kong delegation, Fok Kai-kang, praised: “Siobhan’s performance from the preliminary round to the final was impeccable, with outstanding strength and superb skills. In the end, she won the gold medal with a record breaking Asian Games score. I wish her to achieve greater success in other events.”

He Shibei made swimming team history and won the gold medal in the women’s 200 free finals.

He Shibei.

As for Ou Kaijun, who also made it to the final tonight, he touched the pool in fourth place in the women’s 50m backstroke in 28.35 seconds, only 0.14 seconds behind Japan’s Takashi Takahashi who came in third, and was unable to get on the podium.

Hong Kong who win medals at this year’s Hangzhou Asian Games will receive bonuses from the “Jockey Club Outstanding Athletes Award Scheme”. The top three in individual events will receive HK$1 million, 500,000 and 250,000 respectively, and the top three in team events will receive HK$2 million, 1 million and 500,000. Hong Kong dollar.

Ou Kaichun (front) finished fourth in the women’s 50 back final.

Ou Kaichun.

Swimming Harbor Team’s final results tonight (25/9)[continuously updated]

Women’s 50m backstroke
Ou Kaichun 4th in 28.35 seconds

Men’s 50m freestyle
He Zhentao 21.87 seconds silver medal

Women’s 200m freestyle
He Shibei won the gold medal in 1 minute, 54 seconds and 12 seconds (broken GR).

Swimming Harbor team’s preliminary schedule for tomorrow morning (26/9)
Time items: Hong Kong generals participating in the war
Women’s 100m freestyle after 10:00, Tan Kailin, He Shibei
After 10:14 Men’s 400m individual medley Zhang Rongen, Wei Hengen
10:37 Women’s 200m backstroke Shen Jiaying
After 10:37 women’s 200m backstroke Zhang Xinyue
10:51 Men’s 1500m freestyle slow group He Chengye, Guo Junxi
After 11:13 Men’s 100m Breaststroke He Nanhui, Zheng Yu
After 11:35 Men’s 4×200m Freestyle Relay Hong Kong Team

Pictures and interviews: Cheng Shiyong, Mak Jingzhi
Text: Wang Jiahao

This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “[Hangzhou Asian Games·Direct Attack]He Shibei made the history of the swimming team in the women’s 200 and broke the conference record and won the gold medal

2023-09-25 11:53:35

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