By Retta Race on SwimSwam
11th ASIAN AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Sunday, September 28th – Wednesday, October 1st (swimming)
- Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, Ahmedabad, India
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
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- Day 1 Recap
- Live Results
Day two of the 11th Asian Aquatics Championships transpired tonight from Ahmedabad, India with additional nations getting onto the overall swimming medal table.
As a reminder, this meet, although still prestigious, takes a backseat to November’s Chinese National Games as well as next year’s Asian Games being held in Japan.
Nevertheless, there were some notable performances this evening, including at the hands of Chinese ace Qin Haiyang.
Following up on his 200m breaststroke victory on day one, Qin fired off a time of 26.99 to top the men’s 50m breaststroke podium.
Qin beat the field handily, with the next-closest swimmer represented by Kazakhstan’s Aibat Myrzamura who touched next in 28.04 followed by Qatar’s Mohamed Mahmoud who bagged bronze in 28.09.
26-year-old Qin earned bronze in the 50m breast at this year’s World Championships, notching a mark of 26.67 behind winner Simone Cerasuolo of Italy (26.62) and runner-up Kirill Prigoda who raced as an independent athlete (26.62).
The women’s edition of the 50m breast saw the nation of Hong Kong reap the top two spots of the podium, as Wui Kiu Man got it done for gold in 32.04.
Teammate Wing Yi Claire Cheung snagged the silver in 32.26 and Taipei’s Yi Chen Chiu was a hair behind in 32.29.
Qatar earned its first gold of the competition, courtesy of Ali Tamer Hassan.
Hassan produced an outing of 22.45 as the decisive winner in the men’s 50m freestyle to join the hardware party.
That established a new national record, erasing his former mark of 22.58 logged in April of this year at the Qatar Trophy.
Gleb Kovalenya of Kazakhstan was runner-up in 22.81, just out-touching Taipei’s Mu Lun Chuang who settled for bronze by the narrowest of margins in 22.82.
China’s Wang Gukailai reaped gold as the sole swimmer of the mens’ 200m back field to delve under the 2:00 barrier.
Wang posted 1:59.78, nearly two seconds ahead of silver medalist Rui Yoshida of Japan who was next in line at 2:01.66.
India’s Rishabh Das also landed on the podium in 2:02.64.
China also was too quick to catch in the women’s 4x200m free relay, grabbing gold in a collective time of 8:14.79 ahead of Hong Kong (8:16.93) and Thailand (8:32.17).
The fastest split for China came on the anchor leg, with Gong Zhenqi notched a split of 2:00.86.
The Chinese men followed suit, earning top honors in their edition of the 4x200m free relay.
They turned in a time of 7:21.05 with India behind in 7:23.38. Malaysia rounded out the podium in 7:23.43.
The fastest men’s split was logged by 17-year-old Xu Haibo of China who clocked 1:47.05.
Additional Notes
- Vietnam’s Huy Hoang Nguyen earned gold in the men’s 1500m free in 15:15.01. His speediest remains at the national record of 14:58.14 he put on the books at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.
- The women’s 400m IM saw Chinese swimmer Zhou Yanjun get to the wall first. At just 14 years of age, Zhou posted 4:44.88 for the victory.
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