{"id":570158,"date":"2023-09-28T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T17:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=570158"},"modified":"2023-09-28T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T17:07:21","slug":"china-sets-second-asian-record-of-2023-in-sizzling-400-free-relay-at-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/china-sets-second-asian-record-of-2023-in-sizzling-400-free-relay-at-asian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"China Sets Second Asian Record of 2023 in Sizzling 400 Free Relay at Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

China Sets Second Asian Record of 2023 in Sizzling 400 Free Relay at Asian Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five years is an eternity for a relay record, supersuits notwithstanding. For the Asian record in the men\u2019s 400 freestyle relay to have lasted that long in a single set of hands seems a historical outlier, even if a pandemic intervened to reduce the number of realistic chances to knock it off its pedestal.<\/p>\n

The powers in Asian swimming, however, are making up for lost time in a hurry.<\/p>\n

China on Thursday trounced the continental record in the men\u2019s 400 freestyle relay for the second time this year in winning gold at the Asian Games<\/a>. What had been Japan\u2019s record, at 3:12.54 since the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships, is now nearly two seconds faster, having been routed twice.<\/p>\n

The historical splits:<\/p>\n