China won four of the seven titles on offer to add to the seven they won yesterday.
HANGZHOU: World champion Qin Haiyang surged to the world’s second fastest time this year and the Asian Games 100m breaststroke title today while star freestyler Siobhan Haughey clinched Hong Kong’s first-ever swimming gold medal.
He first cracked the Asian Games record in the heats and bettered it again in the final to touch in 57.76s – the second quickest of 2023 after his World Championship-winning exploits. Qin had already claimed a silver after finishing second to storming Olympic champion Wang Shun in the 200m medley on the opening night of action.
“I guess I was hoping for a little faster time, but it’s not too far off my best time, so I’m still happy with it.” China’s Xu Jiayu successfully defended his 50m backstroke title, adding to the 100m gold medal he had already claimed in Hangzhou.“There’s no one event that I put greater emphasis on. I want to do well in all of them, and my target is to win in everything I take part in,” said Xu.
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