LIVE STREAM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Photo Courtesy: Mike Comer\/ProSwimVisuals.com<\/p><\/div>\n Singapore’s Joseph Schooling lit up the pool to start the night with a 51.76. \u00a0That performance cleared the previous meet record of 51.83 set by China’s Zhou Jiawei back in 2010, and nearly trumped Schooling’s Singapore record of 51.69 from the Commonwealth Games. \u00a0That should definitely get the attention of his fellow Texas Longhorns back in the U.S. \u00a0It’s also Singapore’s first gold medal at the Asian Games since 1982 when Ang Peng Siong won the 100 free.<\/p>\n China’s Li Zhuhao finished close behind with a second-place 51.91 to move to 17th in the world rankings, while Japan’s Hirofumi Ikebata took home bronze in 52.08. Li, just 15, downed the FINA World Junior Record of 52.52 set by Daniel Bell of New Zealand in 2008.<\/p>\n Japan’s Takuro Fujii (52.09), China’s Zhang Qibin (52.77), South Korea’s Gyucheol Chang (53.17), Indonesia’s Glenn Sutanto (53.79) and Hong Kong’s Geoffrey Cheah (53.86) also put up times in the finale.<\/p>\n Top Splits:<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/] Photo Courtesy: Xinhua\/Ding Xu<\/p><\/div>\n Although the likes of Kosuke Hagino, Sun Yang and Tae Hwan Park have earned the lion’s share of the top billing this week, China’s Shen Duo is quietly turning in an MVP effort on the women’s side of the equation. \u00a0With a 1:57.66 in the 200-meter freestyle finale, Shen picked up her fourth gold medal of the meet. \u00a0She’s already won the women’s 100 free and been part of China’s victories in both the women’s 400 free and 800 free relays, and she’s likely going to win the 50 free as well for a fifth gold when all is said and done.<\/p>\n Swimming World had an exclusive conversation with her age group coach Ron Turner earlier this week to get some insight on the swimmer who will undoubtedly vault to legendary status within Chinese swimming with that fifth gold<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shen has actually been much faster this year with an eighth-ranked 1:56.12 at the Youth Olympics, where she also ran off multiple gold medals as well. \u00a0She just didn’t need that level of speed tonight to win.<\/p>\n Japan’s Chihiro Igarashi took second in 1:59.13 with China’s Tang Yi placing third in 1:59.34. \u00a0Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey just missed the podium with a fourth-place 1:59.66.<\/p>\n Japan’s Yasuko Miyamoto (2:00.39), Thailand’s Natthanan Junkrajang (2:02.05), Hong Kong’s Camille Cheng (2:02.06) and South Korea’s Junghye Kim (2:03.54) turned in the rest of the championship finale finishes.<\/p>\n Top Splits:<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/] In what has been a breakout meet thus far, Dmitriy Balandin of Kazakhstan won his second breaststroke gold medal of the meet. \u00a0After already dropping six seconds off his national record in the 200 breast down to the 2:07 range to stun the crowd, Balandin was at it again in the 100 as he took down the Games record as well as the Kazakhstani mark.<\/p>\n Balandin raced his way to victory in 59.92 tonight, the first sub-1:00 time in Games history breaking the record of 1:00.38 set by Ryo Tateishi at the 2010 edition in Guangzhou, China. \u00a0That swim also downed Vlad Polyakov’s national mark of 1:00.65 from 2009 as Balandin continues to make his mark. Balandin now stands 12th in the world this year.<\/p>\n Japan’s Yasuhiro Koseki, who posted a seventh-ranked 59.62 at the Pan Pacific Championships, could not replicate that speed with a silver-winning 1:00.23, while China’s Li Xiang finished third in 1:00.91.<\/p>\n Japan’s Naoya Tomita (1:01.25), China’s Mao Feilian (1:01.34), South Korea’s Kyuwoong Choi (1:01.60), Uzbekistan’s Vladislav Mustafin (1:02.24) and South Korea’s Janghun Ju (1:02.44) closed out the rest of the heat.<\/p>\n Top Splits:<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/] Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY<\/p><\/div>\n China’s Jiao Liuyang battled Japan’s Natsumi Hoshi until the end of the women’s 200-meter fly before taking the title, 2:07.56 to 2:08.04, with a final surge to win. \u00a0That swim came up just short of Jiao’s season best of 2:07.28 from Chinese Nationals, while Hoshi could not come close to her second-ranked 2:05.98 from Japanese Nationals. That’s Jiao’s second straight win in the event, having set the Games record in 2010 with a 2:05.79.<\/p>\n Japan’s Miyu Nakano chased down bronze in the finale with a time of 2:09.18, while world-record holder Liu Zige missed the podium with a fourth-place 2:10.01.<\/p>\n South Korea’s Sehyeon An (2:10.14), Singapore’s Ting Wen Quah (2:14.26), Thailand’s Patarawadee Kittiya (2:18.19) and Thailand’s Sutasinee Pankaew (2:18.96) also competed tonight.<\/p>\nScheduled Events<\/h1>\n
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\n\nWomen’s 200 fly<\/h1>\n
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