2023-10-22 00:16:33
Swimming World Cup Budapest: McKeown broke the world record, Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang won a gold medal each 2023-10-22 08:16:33.0 Source: Xinhuanet Author: Chen Hao
The third leg of the 2023 FINA Swimming World Cup opened in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on the 20th. Australian star McKeon broke the women’s 50-meter backstroke world record and won the championship. Chinese player Zhang Yufei won the women’s 200-meter butterfly gold medal and rewrote the World Cup record. Qin Haiyang Continue to dominate the men’s 100-meter breaststroke.
McKeown’s winning time in the women’s 50-meter backstroke was 26.86 seconds. After this battle, McKeown has collected all the women’s 50-meter, 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke world records.
Qin Haiyang and Zhang Yufei continued their good momentum by participating in the Fukuoka World Championships, Chengdu Universiade, Hangzhou Asian Games and two swimming World Cups. Zhang Yufei won the women’s 200-meter butterfly final with an absolute advantage, setting a new meet record with a time of 2 minutes, 05 seconds and 65 seconds. In the men’s 100-meter breaststroke final, Qin Haiyang once once more proved his dominance in the breaststroke event with a winning time of 57.82 seconds.
Another Chinese competitor, 18-year-old Dong Zhihao, swam 1:01.37 in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke preliminaries and ultimately ranked 12th.
In the competition that day, the female athletes who won the championship also included Dutch star Schouten, who broke the women’s 200-meter breaststroke record with a time of 2 minutes, 21.52 seconds; Swedish star and world record holder Sjöström set a time of 23.97 seconds. Won the women’s 50-meter freestyle championship.
On the men’s side, Swiss player Mityukov narrowly defeated Italian star Chikone in the 200m backstroke final with a slight advantage of one hundredth of a second, with a time of 1:56.96; Swiss player Ponti won in 51.38 seconds. The 100-meter butterfly champion; Britain’s Proud won the 50-meter freestyle championship in 21.77 seconds.
In addition, in the men’s 4X100 meter freestyle relay, the Australian team won the championship in 3 minutes, 14 seconds and 54 seconds, with the Italian team and the host Hungary team finishing second and third respectively.
This year’s Swimming World Cup has three stops. The first stop is held in Berlin, Germany, the second stop is held in Athens, Greece, and the third stop is held in Budapest, Hungary from October 20 to 22. The player with the highest total points in the three races will win the annual championship. Currently, the top three in the men’s total standings are Qin Haiyang, Chie Kong and South Africa’s Satz, while McKeon, Zhang Yufei and Sjöström are temporarily the top three in the women’s total standings.
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