SWIMMING AT THE 2018 ASIAN GAMES
- August 19th-24th, 2018
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Schedule & Results
Tonight we saw the first non-Japanese/Chinese gold medalist at the 2018 Asian Games swimming competition in the form of Singapore’s Joseph Schooling. Schooling earned a new meet record (51.04) en route to topping the men’s 100m fly podium.
The 23-year-old will be back in the pool tomorrow on day 5, contesting the 50m fly race. He will face his 100m fly foes in China’s Li Zhuhao and Japan’s Yuki Koboro who finished with the respective silver and bronze tonight.
Singapore also has a shot at a medal in the women’s 50m breaststroke sprint, where national record holder Roanne Ho will be racing against the likes of Japan’s Miho Teramura and Satomi Suzuki, as well as Korea’s Hyejin Kim.
Although Katsumi Matsumoto clocked the fastest split (47.65) among the Japanese men’s gold medal-winning 4 x 100m freestyle relay tonight, he will not be contesting the individual 100m sprint tomorrow. Instead, Japan will look to national record holder Katsumi Nakamura and domestic rival Shinri Shioura to land on the podium in the event that’s also missing its 2014 Asian Games champion, Ning Zetao of China.
Japan’s Ryosuke Irie will get one last shot at beating China’s Xu Jiayu, the winner of the 50m and 100m backstroke races so far here in Jakarta. Irie, the double Pan Pacs silver medalist in Tokyo just a couple of weeks ago, is seeded 1st in the men’s 200m back here, with Xu close behind. Japan’s Keita Sunama and Singapore’s Quah Zheng Wen will also be in the hunt.
Finally, we’ll see another duel between Chinese 16-year-olds Wang Jianjie and Li Bingjie, as each tries to capture the 800m free crown. Li already has the 200m free Asian Games gold around her neck while Wang snagged the 1500m top prize as well.
Xu Jiayu is Chinese
When 15 year old girl swims 8:15 within 3 sec of unimaginable (beating Katie Ledecky in 800) then it sparks the tsunami of predictions of her domination in three years at next Olympics. Why? Just because she is that young and in three years of progress she will be a super star. Therefore this season is interesting in terms if it would be a progress and how substantial it can possibly be. There were no answers on this question during the season and Asian Games were expected to be the meet were Li Bingjie is going to shine even brighter than last year at WC in Budapest. So we finally came to the major point of the season – 800… Read more »
Irie is the favorite over Xu in the 200
Easy win for Schooling tonight in the 50 Fly. Miles ahead of anyone else
Rooting got his win in the 200 !!! Go Irie
Joe wins 50 fly easy.
I feel bad for Irie though, but Murphy and Xu are both gods.
Irie has had massive success internationally and is a better 200 talent than xu