The fast swimming continued with five more championship records falling in individual events at the final day of competition of the 2016 Asian Swimming Championship.<\/p>\n
China turned in a 1-2 finish in finals of the women’s 800-meter free as the duo of\u00a0Hou Yawen\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Dong Jie<\/strong> posted times of 8:26.49 and 8:35.21 respectively.<\/p>\n Satomi Suzuki<\/strong> of Japan powered to a new championship record of 31.28 in finals of the women’s 50-meter breaststroke. Suzuki’s time took down the previous record of 31.37, which teammate\u00a0Misaki Sekiguchi<\/strong> neared with a second-place finish of 31.39. China’s\u00a0Shin Jinglin\u00a0<\/strong>rounded out the top three with a 32.04.<\/p>\n The men’s 50-meter free proved to be one of the closest races of the night as Japan’s\u00a0Katsumi Nakamura<\/strong> and China’s\u00a0Yu Hexin\u00a0<\/strong>posted matching times of 22.03. Their times erased the previous championship record of 22.37, etching their names in the record book.<\/p>\n The championship record came tumbling down in the women’s 200-meter IM as Japan’s\u00a0Yui\u00a0<\/strong>Shashi\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Runa Imai\u00a0<\/strong>powered to a 1-2 finish. Ohashi turned in a first-place finish of 2:11.46 to overturn the previous record of 2:12.55, while Imai finished with a 2:12.58.<\/p>\n The top two swimmers in the men’s 200-meter IM slid past the previous championship record of 1:58.66, but it was China’s\u00a0Wang Shun<\/strong> who touched first. Wang stopped the clock at a 1:56.66 to win gold and claim the new championship record, while Japan’s\u00a0Daiya Seto\u00a0<\/strong>posted a second-place finish of 1:57.80.<\/p>\n China’s\u00a0Chen Jie<\/strong> and\u00a0Liu Yaxin\u00a0<\/strong>grabbed gold and silver respectively in the finals of the women’s 200-meter backstroke, both touching below the championship record of 2:09.58. Chen turned in a 2:08.98 to earn the championship record, while teammate Liu settled for second and a 2:09.01.<\/p>\n Xu Jiayu<\/strong> of China flirted with a sub-53 second swim in finals of the men’s 100-meter back with a final time of 53.02. Teammate\u00a0Li Guangyuan\u00a0<\/strong>took second overall with a 54.30, while Japan’s\u00a0Takeshi Kawamoto\u00a0<\/strong>posted a close third with a time of 54.39.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fast swimming continued with five more championship records falling in individual events at the final day of competition of the 2016 Asian Swimming Championship. China turned in a 1-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":217370,"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":[10],"tags":[58357],"class_list":["post-229975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-2016-asian-swimming-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n