QINGDAO, China, May 13. DURING the second day of competition at the Chinese National Championships, rising star Xu Jiayu downed his second Chinese record in the backstroke events.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Xu stole some of the spotlight away from Sun Yang’s return meet by popping a top-ranked time of 52.34 in the men’s 100-meter backstroke to set a national record. Tonight, he broke the Chinese mark in the men’s 50-meter backstroke with a sizzling 24.58, lowering the 24.75 mark set by Sun Xiaolei last year in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Tonight’s effort moved Xu to third in the SwimVortex world rankings behind only Camille Lacourt and Ben Treffers. Along with Ning Zetao’s freestyle prowess, China is starting to put together a strong set of medley relays heading towards the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n
While we are still working on more complete results, plenty of other action took place on night two in China. Lu Ying captured the women’s 50-meter fly with a 25.94 to move to fifth in the world with Liu Lan (26.39) placing second in the event.<\/p>\n
Shen Duo topped the women’s 100-meter free in 54.15 with Tang Yi finishing a surprising second in 54.18. Zhang Yufei wound up third in 53.51 with Ye Shiwen continuing to demonstrate her freestyle-specific stroke with a 54.73. Although, Ye is known for her closing freestyle as part of her Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter IM, she’s still looking to transition that type of speed into the individual event.<\/p>\n
Wang Shun captured the men’s 200-meter IM with a 1:57.99, while Shi Jinglin claimed the women’s 200-meter breast in 2:22.90. Finally, Sun Yang-led Zhejiang clinched the men’s 800-meter free relay in 7:16.01.<\/p>\n
More to come as full result become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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