2024 World Swimming Championships: Chinese Team’s Tang Qianting Makes History with Silver Medal and Asian Record – Full Event Recap

2024-02-20 03:39:00

On February 18, local time, the 2024 World Swimming Championships concluded in Doha, Qatar. On the same day, 19-year-old Chinese team player Tang Qianting won the silver medal in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke final and broke her own Asian record. The Chinese swimming team ended this World Championships with 7 golds, 3 silvers and 1 bronze, ranking second in the swimming gold medal list.

In the women’s 50-meter breaststroke semifinals, Tang Qianting set a new Asian record with a time of 29.80 seconds. In the final, she broke the record once more and set the final time at 29.51 seconds. The two-time world championship gold medalist in this event, Lithuanian team player Melotai won the gold medal in 29.40 seconds, and the Italian team player won the bronze medal.

“The game has entered the last day. I have no reservations and will go all out.” Tang Qianting said following the game. At this World Championships, she also won the women’s 100-meter breaststroke event with a time of 1:05.27, winning her first World Championship gold medal and breaking the national record set by Ji Liping in 2009. Tang Qianting said that she performed well in both breaststroke events at this World Championships, which boosted her confidence. Women’s 100-meter breaststroke is an Olympic event. The current world record is 1 minute, 04 seconds and 13 seconds. She hopes she can swim faster.

In the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle final, Ireland’s player Whifen won another gold medal following winning the men’s 800-meter freestyle. Players from the German team and the French team won silver and bronze medals respectively. Fei Liwei from the Chinese team ranked seventh.

On that day, the medals for the last two relay events also went to their respective places. In the women’s 4×100 meter medley relay final, the Australian team, the Swedish team and the Canadian team ranked the top three, and the Chinese team composed of Sun Mingxia, Tang Qianting, Yu Yiting and Ai Yanhan ranked fourth. In the men’s 4×100m medley relay final, the United States, the Netherlands and Italy won gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

The Chinese swimming team won 7 golds, 3 silvers and 1 bronze at this World Championships, and set the only world record in this event, breaking two Asian records. During the 17-day competition, the Chinese team won a total of 23 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 2 bronze medals in swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and other events, ranking first in both the gold medal list and the medal list.Reporter Sun Longfei

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