2025 CHINESE NATIONAL SPRING SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, March 18th – Sunday, March 23rd
- Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
- LCM (50m)
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap
- Day 3 Recap
- Results via Asian media
Day four of the 2025 Chinese National Spring Swimming Championships saw three of the nation’s top five fastest 100m freestylers of all time dive in for the event.
He Junyi got to the wall first in this non-World Championships qualifier, posting a winning effort of 48.44.
That finished a hair ahead of Wang Haoyu who settled for silver by the narrowest of margins, logging 48.45 as runner-up.
Chen Juner rounded out the podium this evening in 48.71.
Wang ranks as China’s 3rd-swiftest 100m free performer in history, courtesy of his 47.89 personal best put up at this same competition 2 years ago. He is China’s 4th-best ever with a PB of 48.10 from 2019 while Chen is ranked 5th overall with a career-quickest mar of 48.13 from last year.
With their performances here, He and Wang now represent the 4th- and 5th-fastest swimmers in the world this season.
2024-2025 LCM Men 100 Free
CECCON
48.17
| 2 | Jamie Jack | AUS | 48.27 | 12/16 |
| 3 | Shaine Casas | USA | 48.31 | 03/06 |
| 4 | Liu Junyi | CHN | 48.44 | 03/21 |
| 5 | Wang Haoyu | CHN | 48.45 | 03/21 |
The men’s 200m IM also took place today, with Zhang Zhanshuo wrangling up the win in a time of 1:58.59.
Although Zhang posted the sole sub-2:00 time of the field, Xie Yichen, just 14 years of age, snagged the silver in 2:00.12.
Xie’s performance is massive for a 14-year-old. For perspective, the current U.S. National Age Group Record for 13-and-14-year-old boys rests over 3 seconds slower – the 2:03.73 Shareef Elaydi put on the books last year.
Looking back further, Xie’s time also outperformed the 2:02.50 American Olympic icon Michael Phelps turned in at the age of 14.
Finally, Chen Luying produced a time of 2:07.30 to win the women’s 200m butterfly race by nearly a second.
Yu Liyan registered 2:08.19 followed by Tian Songyan who hit 2:08.31. Yu Yiting was also in the race, posting 2:09.03 for a new personal best.
18-year-old Chen has been as fast as 2:06.81 in her career and her effort this evening inserts her into the season’s world rankings list in slot #3.
2024-2025 LCM Women 200 Fly
McIntosh
2:04.00
| 2 | Regan Smith | USA | 2:06.87 | 03/06 |
| 3 | Chen Liyan | CHN | 2:07.30 | 03/21 |
| 4 | Brittany Castelluzzo | AUS | 2:07.75 | 12/17 |
| 5 | Qian Liyan | CHN | 2:08.19 | 03/21 |
In men 100 free ranking, the number four athlete should be He Junyi instead of Iiu. In womens 200 fly , the 3rd’name should be Chen Luying, the fifth should be Yu liyan.
He needs to improve his backstroke. So does Zhanshuo Zhang.
But…unfortunately, there are only two Chinese men swimmers that can backstroke. Good old Jiayu Xu and good OLDER Shun Wang…
What in the hamburgers’ name…?
jk lol – very impressive and excited to see how he develops!
China just keeps churning out these IM talents they just keep coming every few years now it seems and he looks to be very versatile as well
Wouldn’t really say they’ve had that much luck producing world-class IM swimmers, at least on the Men’s side, the only one that comes to mind is Wang Shun and junior-years Qin.
These kids are getting pretty damn fast
Unfortunately, he was just 0.01 seconds away from the 200m freestyle final, Otherwise, maybe we’ll see a new PB born
His breaststroke and freestyle freestyle, and weaker in backstroke and butterfly. He really is the star of the future
That is a problem if he wants to improve in IM. There are very few (or I can say no) good young men backstrokers and flyers in China. That probably means the lack of coaches in certain specialties.
How does Phelps not have the NAG for 13-14? It says in the article that at 14 y/o he was 2:02.50, while Elaydi was 2:03.73? Or is it a typo?