Satomi Suzuki Breaks Games Record On Fifth Morning of 2018 Asian Games

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The penultimate morning session of the 2018 Asian Games from Jakarta, Indonesia featured six events and saw a Games Record fall to the way of veteran Satomi Suzuki of Japan in the 50 breast. Suzuki has already won a gold this week and she could win her second, and possibly her third on Thursday night in Jakarta.

Joseph Schooling and Xu Jiayu are also going for their second and third golds of the meet respectively. Khader Baqlah, Yu Hexin and Li Guangyuan are the top seeds going into their respective events for finals.

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Men’s 50 Fly

Joseph Schooling, fresh off his 100 fly gold medal, swam a 23.84 in the heats of the 100 fly on Thursday morning in Jakarta on the fifth day of swimming at the 2018 Asian Games. Schooling is just ahead of three other swimmers who broke 24 seconds in the prelims.

China’s Wang Peng (23.89), Kazakhstan’s Adilbek Mussin (23.91) and Japan’s Shunichi Nakao (23.98) all broke 24 seconds as the gold medal could be up for grabs in the final.

Schooling should still be the heavy favorite though as he is a class above the rest of the field. China’s Li Zhuhao (24.13) could be dangerous in the final as he is seeded sixth for the final.

India’s Virdhawal Khade (24.09), Japan’s Yuki Kobori (24.17) and Vietnam’s Paul Le (24.21) also placed in the very tight A-Final.

Joseph Schooling, SGP, 23.84
Wang Peng, CHN, 23.89
Adilbek Mussin, KAZ, 23.91
Shunichi Nakao, JPN, 23.98
Virdhawal Khade, IND, 24.09
Li Zhuhao, CHN, 24.13
Yuki Kobori, JPN, 24.17
Paul Le, VIE, 24.21

Women’s 50 Breast

The women’s 50 breast heats were separated by less than a second across the top eight qualifiers. Japan’s Satomi Suzuki led the way with a new games record of 31.02, lowering the 31.04 set by China’s Wang Randi from 2010.

Suzuki has already won a gold medal this week and is looking for a second. She is slightly ahead of China’s Feng Junyang (31.16) and her Japanese teammate Miho Teramura (31.26).

China’s Suo Ran (31.38) and Malaysia’s Jinq En Phee (31.46) are also within striking distance of getting a spot on the podium.

Singapore’s Roanne Ho (31.59), Taipei’s Lin Peiwun (31.77) and Kazakhstan’s Adelaida Pchelintseva (31.94) also qualified for the final.

Satomi Suzuki, JPN, 31.02, Games Record
Feng Junyang, CHN, 31.16
Miho Teramura, JPN, 31.26
Suo Ran, CHN, 31.38
Jinq En Phee, MAS, 31.46
Roanne Ho, SGP, 31.59
Lin Peiwun, TPE, 31.77
Adelaida Pchelintseva, KAZ, 31.94

Men’s 100 Free

The men’s 100 free final will be a very fun one to watch as a couple countries are going for their first ever medals in swimming at the Asian Games. Khader Baqlah of Jordan is the top seed at 49.30, tied for first with China’s Yu Hexin. Jordan has never won a medal in swimming at the Asian Games as they only started competing in 1986.

Sri Lanka is also going for its first ever pool medal with Matthew Abeysinghe in the fourth position at 49.48. Sri Lanka has been competing at the Games since 1951 and have yet to win a medal in swimming. Abeysinghe and Baqlah could make history in the final on Thursday night in Jakarta.

Japan’s Shinri Shioura (49.32) and Katsumi Nakamura (49.50) should have more in the tank as they are seeded third and fifth respectively.

China’s Hou Yujie (49.52), Korea’s Yang Jaehoon (49.57) and Kazakhstan’s Adil Kaskabay (49.72) also qualified for the A-Final which could go anyone’s way.

Khader Baqlah, JOR, 49.30
Yu Hexin, CHN, 49.30
Shinri Shioura, JPN, 49.32
Matthew Abeysinghe, SRI, 49.48
Katsumi Nakamura, JPN, 49.50
Hou Yujie, CHN, 49.52
Yang Jaehoon, KOR, 49.57
Adil Kaskabay, KAZ, 49.72

Men’s 200 Back

China’s Xu Jiayu has already won the 50 and 100 back thus far this week at the Asian Games in Jakarta. He is going for a clean sweep with the 200 on Thursday night but will have his hands full with countryman Li Guangyuan (1:59.87) and Japan’s Ryosuke Irie (2:01.74). Xu is the second seed at 2:00.53. It is expected to come down between those three in the final.

Korea’s Lee Juho (2:01.88) and Japan’s Keita Sunama (2:02.64) could play spoiler and get on the medal stand but Irie and Xu have a lot left as they are definitely eyeing the 1:53’s put up earlier in the summer by Evgeny Rylov and Ryan Murphy.

Singapore’s Zheng Quah (2:02.68), India’s Srihari Nataraj (2:02.97) and Singapore’s Francis Fong (2:03.35) also placed in the final.

Li Guangyuan, CHN, 1:59.87
Xu Jiayu, CHN, 2:00.53
Ryosuke Irie, JPN, 2:01.74
Lee Juho, KOR, 2:01.88
Keita Sunama, JPN, 2:02.64
Zheng Quah, SGP, 2:02.68
Srihari Nataraj, IND, 2:02.97
Francis Fong, SGP, 2:03.35

Women’s 4×100 Medley Relay

Japan and China will go head to head once again in the final of the women’s 4×100 medley relay. They are 1-1 on the women’s relays this week with Japan taking the 4×100 free and China taking the 4×200 free.

Japan should expect Natsumi Sakai, Satomi Suzuki, Rikako Ikee and Tomomi Aoki for their final relay while China should have Chen Jie, Shi Jinglin, Zhang Yufei and Zhu Menghui. Japan had the gold medal in each of the 100s so they are the favorites for the final.

Japan qualified for the final with Anna Konishi (59.72), Reona Aoki, Ai Soma (58.39) and Sakiko Shimizu, and China qualified with Fu Yuanhui, Yu Jingyao, Lin Xintong (59.30) and Yang Junxuan.

Japan, 4:01.65
China, 4:02.67
Korea, 4:10.94
Singapore, 4:12.73
Hong Kong, 4:15.99
Indonesia, 4:18.94
Thailand, 4:21.61
Macau, 4:26.07

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5 years ago

Wonders never cease