2025 CHINESE NATIONAL GAMES
- Monday, November 10th – Monday, November 17th (swimming)
- Shenzhen, China
- LCM (50m)
- Prelims at 9am local (8pm previous night ET)/Finals at 7pm local (6am ET)
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap/Day 6 Recap/Day 7 Recap/Day 8 Recap
- Meet Central
- Results
- Livestream
On the final night of the 2025 Chinese National Games, Siobhan Haughey won two bronze medals in back-to-back 50s, swimming the events less than five minutes apart.
The event order had Haughey race the women’s 50 breaststroke and 50 freestyle in consecutive heats without even a men’s event in between to rest.
She started with the 50 breaststroke, touching in 30.71 to take home the bronze medal behind Tang Qianting (30.00) and Yang Chang (30.11). This swim was just off her personal best 30.36 from October of 2023.
She turned around to win another bronze medal in the 50 freestyle, touching in 24.84 to tie with Lu Yue. Despite being just minutes away from her last race, Haughey was only about half-a-second off her lifetime best of 24.30 also from October of 2023.
Back-to-back swims aren’t a new skill for Haughey, and two 50s are short compared to the doubles she usually swims. In 2024 at the World Championships in Doha, she swam the 200 free semifinal just one event before the 100 breaststroke final. She did not balk at the challenge, though, swimming 1:56.04 in the 200 freestyle to qualify 2nd after splitting almost half-a-second under World Record pace at the 100 mark.
With just the men’s 200 fly semifinals between, she turned around to race the women’s 100 breaststroke final, finishing 3rd in 1:05.92 to set a new personal best time and National Record, beating 4th place finisher Kotryna Teterevkova by just a tenth of a second.
She swam the same double from Doha a few months prior at the 2023 Toyota U.S. Open Championships. She started with a win and Championship Record in the 200 freestyle, swimming 1:54.20, beating Katie Ledecky to earn the event win.
Just 20 minutes later, she won the 100 breaststroke final in 1:06.05, which was a two second drop from her previous best time in the event.
Haughey withdrew from the 2025 World Championships due to a back injury, but she has been on a tear in the last moth, starting with a very strong performance at the 2025 Hong Kong Age Group Long Course Championships.
She continued her comeback with the National Games last week, where she won gold medals in the 100 free (52.89) and 200 free (1:54.85) on top of her two bronze medals on the final night.
