NAGOYA, Japan (AP) — Chinese language freestyler Zhang Zhanshuo accomplished his sweep of seven gold medals on the Asian Video games, taking the 400-meter freestyle in 3 minutes, 41.28 seconds on Friday on the ultimate day of swimming occasions.
His time was simply 1.30 seconds off the world report held by Lukas Martens of Germany (3:39.98).
Zhang additionally gained the 1,500, 800 and 200 free and added gold in three relays.
He celebrated at poolside by sitting on the lane divider and counting the golds together with his fingers.
China claims a report gold haul within the meet
The Chinese language gained a report 30 gold medals — and 54 general — in the course of the six days of swimming at these Asian Video games and surpassed the 28 gold medals they gained three years in the past in Hangzhou.
Japan was proper there in lots of races, successful seven gold and 37 medals general — additionally higher than their totals three years in the past.
Japan's 17-year-old Shin Ohashi set the one world report of the video games, taking the 200-meter breaststroke on Thursday in 2:4.83. Ohashi obliterated the outdated mark of two:05.48 set by China’s Qin Haiyang in 2023 on the world championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
China's 13-year-old Yu Zidi was essentially the most talked about swimmer heading into the Asian Video games. She didn’t disappoint, successful the 200 butterfly, and the 200 and 400 particular person medleys.
Her time within the 200 IM was 2:06.10, simply off the world mark held by Canadian Summer season McIntosh (2:05.70).
Yu’s instances are nonetheless a bit off McIntosh’s commonplace in all three occasions. However she is a authentic risk at subsequent 12 months’s world championships and the 2028 Olympics the place, in fact, different swim powers like Australia and United States will probably be current.
China gained gold medals in 5 of the seven races on Friday, simply as dominant because it was all week.
Zhang Yufei gained the ladies's 50 fly in 25.41 with teammate Wu Qingfeng taking silver. China's Qin Haiyang took the 50 breaststroke (26.68) with Ohashi — the record-setter on Thursday — settling for bronze.
Different Chinese language winners had been Li Bingjie within the 800 free (8:24.02), Zhang Zhanshuo within the 400 free (3:41.28), and the ladies's 4×100 medley relay (3:54.55).
Japan's Kodai Nishiono gained the lads's 200 backstroke (1:56.42), and Taiwan's Wang Kuan-hung claimed the 200 fly (1:55.05).
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