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That swim put her with the fastest time in the world in the last 12 months, surpassing Japan&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Suzuka Hasegawa\u00a0<\/strong>(2:05.62). She finished ahead of\u00a0<strong>Zhang Yifan\u00a0<\/strong>(2:08.51) who was a 2:06 earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Rankings Women&#8217;s 200 Butterfly<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>2:05.49, <strong>Zhang Yufei<\/strong>, CHN<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2:05.62,\u00a0<strong>Suzuka Hasegawa<\/strong>, JPN<\/li>\n<li>2:06.11,\u00a0<strong>Hali Flickinger<\/strong>, USA<\/li>\n<li>2:06.39,\u00a0<strong>Regan Smith<\/strong>, USA<\/li>\n<li>2:06.83,\u00a0<strong>Yu Liyan<\/strong>, CHN<\/li>\n<li>2:06.99,\u00a0<strong>Zhang Yifan<\/strong>, CHN<\/li>\n<li>2:07.62,\u00a0<strong>Laura Stephens<\/strong>, GBR<\/li>\n<li>2:07.68,\u00a0<strong>Katinka Hosszu<\/strong>, HUN<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Wang Shun<\/strong>, who won bronze in the 200 IM at the 2016 Olympics, swam a 1:56.40 in the first night of finals, just off his 1:56.2 from October of this year where he put up the second fastest time in the world for 2020. Japan&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Daiya Seto\u00a0<\/strong>still leads the 2020 world rankings from his 1:55 in January.\u00a0<strong>Qin Haiyang<\/strong>, who made the final at the 2017 Worlds, was second at 1:59.94.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wang Jianjiahe\u00a0<\/strong>(no relation) took the women&#8217;s 400 free win at 4:05.13, off her 4:03 from the heats, as she had a tight race with\u00a0<strong>Tang Muhan\u00a0<\/strong>(4:05.68), who improved on her season best of 4:06 from late September. Tang, just 17, was ranked third in the world for 2020 in the 400 freestyle behind Wang and American <strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Another rising star, 16-year-old\u00a0<strong>Tang Qianting\u00a0<\/strong>won the women&#8217;s 100 breast at 1:06.87 ahead of Olympian <strong>Yu Jingyao\u00a0<\/strong>(1:07.08). Tang trains with\u00a0<strong>Zheng Shan<\/strong>, who also trains Worlds medalist <strong>Yan Zibei<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and she improved her lifetime best from a 1:08 to a 1:06. Yan won the men&#8217;s 100 breaststroke race at 59.59 ahead of\u00a0<strong>Sun Jiajun\u00a0<\/strong>(1:00.11).<\/p>\n<p>In the 50 free, Zhang Yufei was beat to the wall by 50 back world record holder\u00a0<strong>Liu Xiang<\/strong>, who touched first at 24.62 to Zhang&#8217;s 24.65, while\u00a0<strong>Yu Hexin\u00a0<\/strong>won the men&#8217;s race at 22.00.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners on the first night of finals were\u00a0<strong>Wang Zhou\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 butterfly (1:58.30),\u00a0<strong>Ji Xinjie\u00a0<\/strong>in the 400 freestyle (3:47.26) and\u00a0<strong>Yu Yiting\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 IM (2:11.30).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/CGTNSportsScene\/status\/1344940129924726785<\/p>\n<p>Ji is also leading the heats of the 200 freestyle at 1:48.29 while Zhang swam a 56.18 to lead the heats in the 100 butterfly. 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