Original title: Melbourne Short Course World Championships | Many world records were broken. Qin Haiyang won the bronze medal in the men’s 200m breaststroke
Xinhua News Agency, Melbourne, December 16 (Reporters Hao Yalin and Wang Qi) The 16th FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships continued and many world records were broken Bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke.
Qin Haiyang held the lead in the first half but was gradually overtaken in the second half. In the end, the famous Japanese player Taiya Seto won the championship with a time of 2 minutes 0.35 seconds and broke the Asian record, while the American player Ni Funk won the silver medal.
In an interview with reporters after the match, Qin Haiyang said that he was not in the best shape of the match, and this result was a bit far from his best. “My fitness and back-end skills, especially the final sprint, need to be further strengthened.”
In the final of the women’s 200m breaststroke, Kay Douglas of the United States and Lily King of the United States took the top two spots, and Ter Schouten of the Netherlands placed third. Chinese player Tang Qianting finished fifth with 2:19.28.
In the men’s and women’s 4x50m freestyle relay, the French team won the championship with a time of 1:27.33 and broke the world record. The Chinese team consisting of Pan Zhanle, Wang Haoyu, Wang Yichun and Liu Shuhan finished sixth with a time of 1:30.18.
In other competitions on the day, Canada’s Ma McNeill won the women’s 50m backstroke championship with a time of 25.25 seconds and the US team won the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay gold medal with a time of 6: 44.12.Both events broke world records.
Dutchwoman Ma Sternbergen won the women’s 100m medley in 57.53 seconds. Torto Ceccon of Italy won the men’s 100 m medley individual championship in 50.97 seconds, his second gold medal at this tournament. Pallister of Australia won the women’s 1500m freestyle with a time of 15 minutes 21 seconds 43, winning gold for the fourth time in this competition. Ray Murphy of the USA won the men’s 50m backstroke with a time of 22.64 seconds.
