China's new generation of breaststroke king Qin Haiyan stole the show at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, becoming the first Chinese swimmer to win the men's breaststroke world championships with a record-breaking Asian record on Monday night and ushering in China's first gold medal of the session; and then setting a new Asian record with a time of 26.34 seconds in the preliminary round of the men's 50-meter breaststroke on Tuesday.
The Chinese team, which learned a hard lesson last year and won only one gold medal in individual events, won two golds in one day at the World Championships on Monday night. Qin Haiyang in the men's 100 meters breaststroke, with the absence of Olympic gold medalist Piatti of Great Britain, Qin Haiyang, who swam 57 seconds 93 seconds in the national championships, became the favorite to win the standard, and he set a new Asian record in the preliminary and semi-final with 58 seconds 26 seconds and 57 seconds 82 seconds respectively, and finished first in the final. In the final was arranged in the 4th line of the Qin Ocean, halfway has taken the lead, and finally with a new Asian record of 57 seconds 69 for China to win this year's World Championships the first gold medal, but also write history to become the first Chinese in the 100 breaststroke to win the World Championships.
The 24-year-old Qin Ocean took advantage of the victory in the men's 50-meter breaststroke preliminary round, teammate Sun Jiajun in the first group of debut, has swum a new Asian record of 26 seconds 76 seconds, and with the latter group on the Qin Ocean performance is even stronger to 26 seconds 34 seconds to break the Asian record, and with the first place in the total among the semi-finals.
As for Kary Zhang in the final of the women's 100 meters butterfly, with the strength of 56 seconds 12 to win a side of the gold medal, which is also her personal first long course world championships. Kary Zhang, who won a silver medal in the 100m butterfly at the Tokyo Olympics, said after the race, "Our overall performance last year was less than ideal, we worked very hard for this World Championships, we learned a lot last year, and we also made a lot of opportunities, and I hope that in the next few days there will be more gold medals.
