Day three of the swimming competition at the 2016 Asian Swimming Championships continued to see championship records fall as another four were overturned.<\/p>\n
China’s\u00a0Xu Jiayu\u00a0<\/strong>kickstarted the record-breaking with a 24.65 in the men’s 50-meter backstroke, sliding past the previous record of 25.03. Japan’s\u00a0Shunichi Nakao<\/strong> took second overall with a 25.17.<\/p>\n Rikako Ikee<\/strong> of Japan garnered her first gold of the night with a top showing in the women’s 100-meter fly. Ikee posted a 57.46 to flirt with the championship record of 57.12 and be one of two swimmers to post sub-minute swims. Hong Kong’s\u00a0Kin Lok Chan<\/strong> posted the only other sub-minute swim at a 59.82.<\/p>\n Japan’s\u00a0Masato Sakai\u00a0<\/strong>turned in a 1:54.53 in the men’s 200-meter fly final for the gold. His time overturned the previous championship record of 1:56.71, while teammate\u00a0Daiya Seto\u00a0<\/strong>finished second, also underneath the previous record, with a 1:55.45.<\/p>\n The women’s 400-meter free was highlighted by a tight field of swimmers led by China’s\u00a0Li Bingjie<\/strong>. Li posted a 4:07.16 to grab China’s second gold medal of the day, while teammate\u00a0Zhang Yuhan<\/strong> picked up third with a 4:08.80. Sandwiched in between was Japan’s\u00a0Chihiro Igarashi<\/strong> and her time of 4:08.69.<\/p>\n Park Tae Hwan<\/strong> of South Korea added a championship record to his accomplishments accompanied by a gold medal in the men’s 100-meter free. Park stopped the clock at a 48.57 to dash past the previous record of 49.27. Japan’s\u00a0Katsumi Nakamura<\/strong> and China’s\u00a0Yu Hexin<\/strong> also finished below the previous record with times of 48.77 and 48.81 respectively.<\/p>\n Park added a second win in timed finals of the men’s 1500-meter free, finishing more than six seconds ahead of the competition with a 15:07.86.<\/p>\n Japan delivered a 1-2 finish in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke led by\u00a0Misaki Sekiguchi<\/strong>. Sekiguchi turned in a 1:07.86, while teammate\u00a0Reona Aoki<\/strong> was second with a 1:07.99.\u00a0Shi Jinglin<\/strong> of China added a third place finish of 1:08.00.<\/p>\n Ippei Watanabe<\/strong> of Japan ended the session on a high note as one last championship record fell. Watanabe pulled away from the competition in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke and never looked back, posting a final time of 2:08.19. His time was well under the previous record of 2:12.13, which China’s\u00a0Mao Feilian\u00a0<\/strong>(2:11.95) also finished under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day three of the swimming competition at the 2016 Asian Swimming Championships continued to see championship records fall as another four were overturned. China’s\u00a0Xu Jiayu\u00a0kickstarted the record-breaking with a 24.65<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":217470,"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":[58357],"class_list":["post-229922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2016-asian-swimming-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n