2023 Asian Games: Day One National Record Roundup

19TH ASIAN GAMES

• Sunday, September 24th – Friday, September 29th (swimming)
• Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Aquatic Sports Arena, Hangzhou, China
• LCM (50m)
• Meet Central
• Entries
• Results

Day one of the 2023 Asian Games brought the heat as we saw multiple Games Records, national records and continental records bite the dust.

To make sure nothing was missed amidst the fast and furious action, here’s a round-up of the national records broken through just the first set of sessions with five more days ahead of us from Hangzhou, China.

China

• Pan Zhanle, men’s 100m free – 19-year-old Pan pumped out a massive swim of 46.97 in the men’s 100m freestyle, becoming the 5th-best performer in history.
  • China’s Pan Zhanle Rips 46.97 100 Free as 5th-Fastest Performer Ever (Video)
• Wang Shun, men’s 200m IM – 29-year-old Wang hit the quickest time of his career, 1:54.62, en route to handily taking the men’s 200mIM gold.
  • Wang Shun Crushes 1:54.62 200 IM as 3rd-Best Performer in History
• Tang Qianting, women’s 50m breast – 19-year-old Tang clocked a time of 29.92 in the heats of the women’s 50m breast before ultimately winning gold in the final in 29.96
  • Tang Qianting 29.92 Asian Record in Women’s 50 Breast

Hong Kong

• Siobhan Haughey, women’s 50m breast
  • Known for her freestyle prowess, former University of Michigan Wolverine Siobhan Haughey tried the 50m breast on for size tonight and came away with the bronze medal. 25-year-old Olympic multi-medalist Haughey scored a time of 30.36 to collect the bronze, lowering her own previous national record of 31.21 in the process. That previous outing was notched at this year’s Pro Swim Series in March and marks the first time Haughey has dipped under the 31-second barrier in the 50m breast event.
• Women’s 4x100m free relay
  • The combination of Camille Cheng, Haughey, Hoi Lam Tam and Stephanie Au earned bronze in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay, establishing a new national record en route to the podium. Cheng hit 56.11, followed by Haughey’s massive 51.92, while Tam and Au hit 55.41. Their collective time of 3:39.10 overtook the previous national record of 3:39.94 that was put on the books at the 2014 Asian Games.

India

• Women’s 4x100m free relay
  • Dhinidhi Desinghu, Maana Patel, Janhvi Choudhary and Shivangi Sarma earned a time of 3:53.80 in the heats of the women’s 4x100m free relay to notch a new national record.

Japan

• Satomi Suzuki, women’s 50m breast
  • 32-year-old Satomi Sazuki shows no signs of slowing down, clocking yet another personal best in the women’s 50m breast. En route to silver this evening, Sazuki hit a mark of 30.14, lowering her previous career-quickest of 30.29 from the heats of the event at this year’s World Championships. In Fukuoka, Sazuki ultimately placed 7th in 30.44. The previous Japanese national record stood at the 30.27 Reona Aoki put on the books at the 2022 Japanese World Championships Trials.

Kazakhstan

• Adelaida Pchelintseva, women’s 50m breast
  • 23-year-old Adelaida Pchelintseva posted a time of 31.04 to finish 5th in the women’s 50m breast. In doing so, she sliced .29 off of the 31.33 she produced in the heats of the event at the 2019 World University Games.

Philippines

• Kayla Sanchez, women’s 100m free
  • Leading off her women’s 4x100m freestyle squad, 22-year-old Kayla Sanchez fired off a new Phillippine national recording the 100m. She nabbed a 54.71 opener, knocking exactly one second off of the previous NR of 55.71 Remedy Rule established in 2020. This is Sanchez’s Asian Games debut for her new national of the Phillippines after having represented Canada internationally for the first portion of her career.
• Women’s 4x100m free relay
  • Fueled by Sanchez’s 54.71 lead-off, teammates Xiandi Chua (56.37), Tiea Salvino (56.38) and Jasmine Alkhaldi (56.85) combined to earn a time of 3:44.31 and finish 5th in tonight’s women’s 4x100m free relay final as a new national record.

Thailand

• Tonnam Kanteemool, men’s 100m back
  • Thailand saw its men’s 100m back national record bite the dust, courtesy of Tonnam Kanteemool. He logged a mark of 55.73 to place 8th in tonight’s final of the event.