Chinese Swimmers Set 4 World Records On Tuesday At Paralympics

2016 RIO PARALYMPIC GAMES

  • Wednesday, September 7 – Sunday, September 18, 2016
  • Swimming: Thursday, September 8 – Saturday, September 17, 2016
  • Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Prelims 9:30 AM / Finals 5:30 PM (local time)
  • IPC World Records
  • Live stream links: NBC / IPC
  • Schedule/Results

It’s been a banner week for the Chinese Paralympic swim team, which leads the medal tables by a wide margin in Rio. Tuesday may have been the highest point yet, with 4 of 5 total world records in the finals session set by Chinese athletes.

The first two records came back-to-back in the SB11 100 breaststrokes.

In the men’s final, Yang Bozun bettered his own world record, going 1:10.08 and winning by about a second and a half. He just snuck under his old record of 1:10.11, which was set at the last Paralympics in London in 2012.

One event later, it was Zhang Xiatong who etched her name into the world record books with a win in the women’s event. Her 1:23.02 knocked down the former world record of 1:24.63 set by Lisette Bruinsma of the Netherlands earlier this year.

In the men’s 100 back S8, Zhou Cong picked up gold and a new world record, blasting a 1:02.90. The old record of 1:03.32 had stood since 2013, when it was set by Russia’s Konstantin Lisenkov.

The biggest world record smash came in the final Chinese win. Huang Wenpan crushed a 39.24 in the men’s S3 50 free, becoming the first S3 man ever under 42, 41 and 40 seconds. The old record was a 42.60 set way back at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing by Dmytro Vynohradets of the Ukraine.

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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