2023 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- July 23 to 30, 2023
- Fukuoka, Japan
- Marine Messe Fukuoka
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Entry Book
- Live Results (Omega)
- Day 3 Prelims Live Recap
Chinese swimmer Qin Haiyang‘s streak of momentum is still alive and strong.
Just a day after winning gold and breaking the Asian record in the 100 breast, Qin rocketed to a 26.34 50 breast during the preliminary heats of the event to break an Asian record in a second event at the 2023 World Championships. In addition, he also becomes the fifth-fastest 50 breast performer of all-time with his swim.
The previous Asian record was held by Sun Jiajun, who clocked a 26.61 at the Chinese Spring Championships this March. Sun also swam in the 50 breast prelims at Worlds, clocking a 26.76 to qualify for semi-finals in third.
Qin’s best time headed into Worlds was a 26.63 from the 2023 Chinese Spring Championships.
All-Time Top Performers, Men’s 50-Meter Breaststroke:
- Adam Peaty, Great Britain — 25.95 (2017)
- Ilya Shymanovich, Belarus — 26.28 (2023)
- Felipa Lima, Brazil (2019)/Nicolo Martinenghi, Italy (2022) — 26.33
- Qin Haiyang, China (2023) — 26.34
Qin qualified for semi-finals as the top overall seed by a significant margin, being 0.3 seconds ahead of second seed Nicolo Martinenghi.
In the 100 breast, Qin was progressively faster throughout all three rounds—he swam a 58.26 in prelims, a 57.83 in semi-finals, and then a 57.64 in finals. In total, he dropped 0.62 seconds from prelims to finals. If Qin can see similar drops in the 50 breast, he could challenge Adam Peaty‘s world record time of 26.95, which he is currently 0.34 seconds away from.
Most 50-100m breaststrokers or most sprinters like dressel are on PEDS. Look at kamminga and peaty, qin All not natty
Absolutely love his gorgeous technique!
Qin’s old coach in the Navy was very “old school” (basically no weights) and wanted him to be a 400 IMer, which obviously was not to his strengths. Fortunately, he is training under Cui Dengrong now, who is more scientific. It’s just sad he wasted 6 years of his career.
Qin Haiyang has great technique and power.
He’ll make serious challenge to ZSC in 200.
Gorgeous, fluid technique!
Massive drops at 24 years old
Not suspicious at all
As an 18 year old in 2017 he swam 2:07.35 in the 200m breaststroke, a time that sHoUlD* be the WJR. He was a known hot prospect as a junior swimmer, but he seems to have struggled since 2017. I believe he has found his way to Zhang Yufei’s coach. Zhang also has had an interesting career trajectory, having been a very promising young talent who struggled to transition to the top stage bit was then able to reach her potential later.
I believe a big part of Zhang’s turnaround was her coach having her focus on the sprint instead of her bread and butter 200m fly. It appears Qin had had a similar change in focus too to… Read more »
You realize Yamaguchi swam a 2:07.01 at 17 in 2012, right?
They didn’t county WJRs until like 2013.
So really depends on your definition of “should”.
qin’s time is the fastest within the qualifying period
Hence the sHoUlD*
The 2:07.35 was never ratified, and like many WJRs the whole think looks stupid since yes Yamaguchi’s then WR swim is the “true” WJR anyway…
Americans:
Any foreign swimmers swimming fast must because PED
Nevermind Dressel with endless amounts of TUE, Dara Torres came back in advance age after dozens of years retired, obliterated AR and won Olympics medals, Amy van Dyken, Jessica Hardy immediately broke 50 breast WR right after her suspension ended, etc etc
now do Fink…
But Fink is American…how dare you!
Nic Fink enters the chat lol
I think there are legitimate questions to be asked here. Coming into 2023, most of the swimming community was of the belief that Peaty’s WR were amongst the least likely to be broken. Furthermore, coming into this year no one was predicting Qin to drop as much time as he has been (and continues) doing. For instance Peaty had a more gradual drop in time to get to the WR. I.e. 57:1 in Rio then 56:8 in 2019. Qin on the other hand is dropping insane amounts of time from his best in such a short period and at an age where normally swimmers do not unlock such vast improvements. Yes Fink did drop a 58:50 at us nationals in… Read more »
Peaty’s 50 WR on red alert here!
That was a casual 0.3 pb over the shortest distance in the heats from Qin.
The 200m WR is also not safe – considering traditionally this is Qin’s preferred event being the WJR in it!!
3 tenth drop in a 50 is kinda crazy for a prelims swim