Sun Yang threw down a world best in the men’s 200-meter free at the Chinese Nationals.<\/p>\n
Sun Yang jumped to the top of the men’s 200-meter free world rankings with a time of 1:45.75. \u00a0That swim cleared the 1:45.82 set by Kosuke Hagino earlier this week at the 2015 Japan Swim. \u00a0Xu Qiheng took second overall in 1:47.87, while Shang Keyuan snared third in 1:48.54.<\/p>\n
Fu Yuanhui touched out Chen Jie in a barnburner in the women’s 100-meter back, 59.41 to 59.78. \u00a0That put the two fourth and fifth in the world rankings with Emily Seebohm (58.89), Madison Wilson (58.94) and Mie Nielsen (59.14) the only swimmers faster this year. \u00a0Cheng Haihua placed third tonight in China with a 1:01.02.<\/p>\n
Xu Jiayu moved into fifth in the world rankings in the men’s 100-meter back with a time of 53.47. \u00a0Li Guangyuan placed second in 54.80, while He Jianbin wound up third tonight in 55.02.<\/p>\n
Shi Jinglin provided another fifth-ranked swim tonight as Shi clocked a 1:07.03 in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke for the win. \u00a0He Yun earned second tonight in 1:07.96 with Zhang Xinyu touching in 1:08.16.<\/p>\n
Xin Xin turned in the fourth fifth-ranked swim of the night with a 16:23.47 to win the women’s 1500-meter free. \u00a0Wang Guoyue placed second in 16:25.41 for eighth in the world with Bi Yirong taking ninth in the world with a third-place 16:28.94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sun Yang threw down a world best in the men’s 200-meter free at the Chinese Nationals. Sun Yang jumped to the top of the men’s 200-meter free world rankings with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[36923,43033,27550,42939,27032,27537,31742,50763,36761],"class_list":["post-130809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-chen-jie","tag-cheng-haihua","tag-emily-seebohm","tag-fu-yuanhui","tag-mie-nielsen","tag-shi-jinglin","tag-sun-yang","tag-wang-guoyue","tag-xin-xin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n