{"id":584681,"date":"2024-04-23T22:19:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=584681"},"modified":"2024-04-23T22:19:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:19:37","slug":"chinese-national-championships-yang-junxuan-fires-national-record-52-68-in-100-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/chinese-national-championships-yang-junxuan-fires-national-record-52-68-in-100-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese National Championships: Yang Junxuan Fires National Record 52.68 in 100 Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese National Championships: Yang Junxuan Fires National Record 52.68 in 100 Free<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yang Junxuan<\/strong> set a national record in the women\u2019s 100 freestyle of 52.68 seconds on Tuesday at the Chinese National Championships.<\/p>\n

Yang undercut the record set twice, in 2020 and 2021, by Zhang Yufei<\/strong> at 52.90. Yang won by a wide margin over runner-up Wu Qingfeng,<\/strong> who was second in 53.25. Both are Olympic A cuts. Yang had been fifth in prelims.<\/p>\n

In the relay reckoning, third was Cheng Yujie<\/strong> in 53.27, followed by Zhu Menghui<\/strong> in 54.12. Zhang had swum 53.34 in prelims before scratching the 100 free final in favor of semifinals in the 200 fly.<\/p>\n

Cheng, Zhu and Wu were all part of the Olympic squad in Tokyo in 2021 that finished seventh but set an Asian record. Cheng, Yang, Wu and Zhang improved those marks at the World Championships in 2023.<\/p>\n