BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA, Oct. 1. IT used to be said that the German Democratic Republic was pretty good at making women into men but they could never quite
\nmaster making men into supermen.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the Chinese swimming authorities are taking a leaf from the old GDR book, or perhaps they've finally found how to develop their men's program into a status comparable to their world-class women's team.<\/p>\n
In either case, the Chinese men flexed their muscles here on the second day of the 2002 Asian Games and came away with a pair of golds and impressive performances, to go along with the three golds their women's team won this evening.<\/p>\n
China's most impressive men's win was in the 200 butterfly, where national record-holder, 15 year-old Wu Peng (1:58.49 from this year's Games' Trials last spring) upset Japan's Asian record-holder Takashi Yamamoto, 1:56.63-1:57.18. The latter's teammate, Yosuke Matsuda. won the bronze (1:57.26).<\/p>\n
Yamamoto was third at last month's Pan Pacs behind Americans Tom Malchow and Michael Phelps in a pr, national- and Asian Record 1:55.57, That swim ranks
\nhim fifth-fastest performer globally for the year.<\/p>\n
Wu's winning time slices his national record by nearly two seconds and ranks him eighth globally — one of the highest individual world- ranking a Chinese man has ever attained.<\/p>\n
The situation was similar in the 200 free where China's Liu Yu raced to an Asian record 1:49.29 to take the gold. The old record was 1:49.73 by Japan's Daisuke Hosakawa from the semis of last year's World Championships in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n
Liu's old pr was 1:49.77 from the Chinese National Games in Guangzhou last November, which was also the old Chinese national record.<\/p>\n
Second was Japan's Yoshihiro Okumura in a pr-NR 1:49.36 with teammate Yosuke Ichikawa (1:50.66) taking the bronze.<\/p>\n
Liu's time ranks him 23rd globally and Okumura is 24th.<\/p>\n
* * * * *<\/p>\n
On the women's side, China swept all three events. Defending 100 breast World Champion Luo Xuejuan won her sepcialty in an Asian\/national-record 1:06.84 — history's second-berst performance. Teammate Qi Hui was seecond (1:08.35, just off her pr 1:08.27 from last year) and she then returned to take gold in the 200 IM (2:13.84).<\/p>\n
The world record in the 100 breast belongs to now-retired South Africa's Penny Heyns, who went the current global standard of 1:06.52 in the prelims
\nof the Pan Pac Championships at the Sydney Olympic Pool in August of 1999.<\/p>\n
That broke her old record of 1:06.95 from the Janet Evans Invitational at the USC\/McDonald's Olympic Pool in Los Angeles a month earlier. That time was until tonight's swim by Luo history's second-fastest performance, which the Chinese woman's winning 1:06.84 eclipses.<\/p>\n
Qi's medley pr is a 2:12.46 from Fukuoka, which earned her the bronze medal. She, of course, is also world record-holder in the 200 breast with her 2:21.99 from last year's World Championship Trials in Ashan in April.<\/p>\n
The world record in the 200 IM is 2:09.72 by China's Wu Yanyan from the 1997 National games in Shanghai that November, but suspicions abound about the
\nlegitimacy of that record. Wu retired suddenly just before the Asian Games opened.<\/p>\n
China capped off its record-breaking night by racing to a world-leading 7:58.47 to Japan's NR 8:02.76 in the women's 4 x 200m freestytle relay.<\/p>\n
— Bill Bell<\/p>\n
\n14th Asian Games
\nBusan, South Korea<\/p>\n
September 29 – October 14, 2002<\/p>\n
SWIMMING RESULTS<\/p>\n
DAY TWO: October 1, 2002<\/b><\/p>\n
Women's 200m Individual Medley
\nHeats Rank Lane Name Country Record
\nF 1 3 QI Hui People's Rep. of China
\n 2:13.94
\n 2 5 ZHOU Ya Fei People's Rep. of China
\n 2:14.67
\n 3 4 FUJINO Maiko Japan
\n 2:16.37
\n 4 1 YEO Wei Ling Joscelin Singapore
\n 2:18.02
\n 5 7 NAM Yoo Sun Korea
\n 2:20.67
\n 6 6 SATO Ayane Japan
\n 2:20.69
\n 7 2 LEE Sun A Korea
\n 2:21.75
\n 8 8 TSAI Hiu Wai Sherry Hong Kong, China
\n 2:24.58 <\/p>\n
Women's 100m Breaststroke
\nHeats Rank Lane Name Country Record
\nF 1 4 LUO Xuejuan People's Rep. of China
\n 1:06.84 Asian Record
\n 2 3 QI Hui People's Rep. of China
\n 1:08.35
\n 3 6 KAWANABE Fumiko Japan
\n 1:10.11
\n 4 5 ISODA Junko Japan
\n 1:10.42
\n 5 2 KU Hyo Jin Korea
\n 1:11.11
\n 6 7 CHO A Ra Korea
\n 1:12.06
\n 7 8 TEO Wei Min Nicolette Singapore
\n 1:13.48
\n 1 GUERRERO Jenny Philippines
\n 1:14.30 <\/p>\n
Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final
\nHeat Rank Lane Country Name Record
\nF 1 4 People's Rep. of China
\n ZHU Ying Wen
\nTANG Jingzhi
\nXU Yanwei
\nYANG Yu
\n 7:58.46 Asian Games Record
\n 2 5 Japan
\n MITA Maki
\nNAGAI Tomoko
\nYAMADA Sachiko
\nURABE Norie
\n 8:02.76 NR
\n 3 3 Korea
\n HA Eun Ju
\nKIM Ye Sul
\nKIM Hyun Joo
\nSHIM Min Ji
\n 8:19.62 NR
\n 4 6 Thailand
\n CHOOMPOL Chorkaew
\nTANTINITI Piyaporn
\nVORATHAMRONG Chonlathorn
\nTACHAKITTIRANAN Pilin
\n 8:33.42
\n 5 7 Singapore
\n BOUVRON Christel
\nCHAN U-nice
\nTEO Wei Min Nicolette
\nYEO Wei Ling Joscelin
\n 8:37.07
\n 6 2 Hong Kong, China
\n KONG Yan Kay Flora
\nTANG Hing Ting
\nPANG Shuk Mui
\nTSAI Hiu Wai Sherry
\n 8:41.32
\n 7 1 Pakistan
\n KHAN Kiran
\nKARIM Mahira
\nTAJWAR Ayesha
\nABDUL WAHID Sana
\n 10:17.29 <\/p>\n
Men's 200m Freestyle
\nHeats Rank Lane Name Country Record
\nA 1 6 LIU Yu People's Rep. of China
\n 1:49.29 Asian Record
\n 2 4 OKUMURA Yoshihiro Japan
\n 1:49.36 NR
\n 3 3 ICHIKAWA Yosuke Japan
\n 1:50.66
\n 4 8 HAN Kyu Chul Korea
\n 1:50.97
\n 5 2 MOLINA Miguel Philippines
\n 1:52.99
\n 6 5 KO Yun Ho Korea
\n 1:53.24
\n 7 1 YU Cheng People's Rep. of China
\n 1:53.91
\n 8 7 TAN Lee Yu Gary Singapore
\n 1:54.25
\nB 1 4 WU Nien Pin Chinese Taipei
\n 1:53.60
\n 2 3 VASILEV Peter Uzbekistan
\n 1:55.85
\n 3 5 CHAY Jung Jun Mark Singapore
\n 1:55.93
\n 4 6 PHUANGTHONG Dulyarit Thailand
\n 1:56.33
\n 5 2 MASRI Mhd Naeem Syrian Arab Republic
\n 1:57.87
\n 6 7 FUNG Hok Him Hong Kong, China
\n 1:58.37
\n 7 1 ABUYOUSUF Anas Qatar
\n 2:05.58
\n 8 8 DAABOUL Omar Lebanon
\n 2:08.87 <\/p>\n
Men's 200m Butterfly
\nHeats Rank Lane Name Country Record
\nF 1 3 WU Peng People's Rep. of China
\n 1:56.63 NR, Asian Games Record
\n 2 4 YAMAMOTO Takashi Japan
\n 1:57.18
\n 3 5 MATSUDA Takeshi Japan
\n 1:57.26
\n 4 7 JIN Hao People's Rep. of China
\n 1:59.54
\n 5 6 YOO Jeong Nam Korea
\n 2:00.77
\n 6 2 CHO Jae Hyun Korea
\n 2:02.78
\n 7 1 TSENG Cheng Hua Chinese Taipei
\n 2:03.87
\n 8 8 KWOK Kin Ming Mark Hong Kong, China
\n 2:03.91 <\/p>\n
SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING Solo Free Routine Final
\n 1 JPN
\n TACHIBANA Miya
\n 98.000 49.000
\n2 KOR
\n JANG Yoon Kyung
\n 95.500 47.750
\n3 CHN
\n LI Zhen
\n 94.833 47.417
\n4 KAZ
\n KARIMOVA Aliya
\n 89.166 44.583
\n5 UZB
\n MOGAEVA Darya
\n 85.333 42.667
\n6 MAC
\n WONG Wai Kei
\n 80.833 40.417 <\/p>\n
Water Polo Preliminary Round
\n Japan
\n 3 2 1 2 8
\n People's Rep. of China
\n 1 1 3 2 7 <\/p>\n
Islamic Republic of Iran
\n 4 3 1 5 13
\n Singapore
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