2024 CHINESE SHORT COURSE NATIONALS
- Tuesday, September 24th – Sunday, September 29th
- Wuhan, China
- SCM (25m)
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap
- Results via Asian Media & Here
Just 3 days after firing off a new Asian Record in the men’s 50m fly, 24-year-old Sun Jiajun accomplished the same feat in the 50m breast.
Racing on day 5 of the 2024 Chinese Short Course Nationals, Sun stopped the clock at a massive 25.72 to get to the wall just under a second ahead of the rest of the pack.
Zheng Yinghao earned silver in 26.71 while Qiu Tian rounded out the podium in 26.73.
Sun’s 25.72 outing overtook the previous Chinese national record and Asian record of 25.80 Yan Zibei put on the books at the 2022 Short Course World Championships. Yan hit that result during the semi-finals but ultimately placed 7th in 26.06.
Sun’s career-best entering this competition sat at the 26.26 logged at the 2022 edition of these championships.
On day 2 here in Wuhan, Sun produced a winning effort of 21.96 to grab men’s 50m fly gold and establish a new national and continental record in the event.
Can’t believe my eyes, Swimswam. Butterflier (!) from China (!!) smashes a record in breaststroke (!!!)… and not a single comment about multiple fly kicks 🤯
Also, what about 11 year old Yu Zidi swimming a casual 4:30 in the 400 IM? 🤯🤯
She’s been phenomenal the last couple of months.
Forgot it was Short Course for a second and I dropped my phone in shock. Surely that won’t be too far away from medalling at this years worlds.
Very exciting to see the rise of breast/fly hybrid type swimmers
Short-axis stroke swimmers they call it
What’s his 100 IM like?
great