2024 CHINESE NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, April 19th – Sunday, April 27th
- Shenzhen, China
- LCM (50m)
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- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap/Day 6 Recap/Day 7 Recap
- Results
- Livestream
Day 8 of the 2024 Chinese National Swimming Championships concluded this evening from Shenzhen with additional names being added to the provisional roster for this summer’s Olympic Games.
21-year-old Wang Changhao stopped the clock in 51.20 for a statement-making swim en route to winning the men’s 100m butterfly.
Wang opened in 23.75 and brought it home in 27.45 to establish a new lifetime best. Entering this competition, Wang’s PB rested at the 51.24 notched for silver at last year’s Asian Games. His outing here easily clears the 51.68 needed to qualify for Paris.
Also making the cut was Sun Jiajun who hit 51.54 as the silver medalist. That, too, represents a new career-quickest result, overtaking the 51.74 posted at the 2020 Olympic Games. Sun now becomes China’s 4th-fastest man in history.
Xu Fang rounded out the podium this evening in 51.87.
Top 5 Chinese Men’s LCM 100 Butterfly Performers
- Li Zhuhao – 50.96, 2017
- Wang Changhao – 51.20, 2024
- Zhou Jiawei – 51.24, 2009
- Sun Jiajun – 51.54, 2024
- Shi Feng – 51.68, 2008
18-year-old Yu Yiting got it done for gold in the women’s 200m IM, topping the podium in 2:09.73. She was slightly faster in the semi-finals, hitting 2:09.58 last night to earn the top seed.
Yu remains China’s #2 performer in history, courtesy of the 2:07.75 she turned in for gold at last year’s Asian Games. However, she needed to dip under the OQT of 2:11.47 here as that previous competition did not count towards Paris qualification.
Zheng Huiyu fell short of qualification, touching in 2:11.87 while Ge Chutong bagged bronze in 2:12.10. As a reminder, the 200m breaststroke champion here, Ye Shiwen, dropped out of the 200m IM event due to illness.
Asian record holder Li Bingjie made her presence known in the 800m free. The 22-year-old triple Asian Games gold medalist posted a winning effort of 8:25.43 to further solidify this event on her Paris lineup.
She was the sole swimmer to delve under the 8:26.71 cut-off needed to make the Paris grade. Gao Weizhong touched in 8:27.97 and Ma Yonghui was the 3rd place finisher in 8:29.24.
The mixed medley relay contest finished the session, with Pan Zhanle firing off a blistering anchor of 46.72 on his squad’s silver medal team. You can read more about the relay results here.
Semi-finals
- Wu Qingfeng earned the pole position in the women’s 50m free, producing a semi swim of 24.27. That holds a narrow advantage over Zhang Yufei who hit 24.31 for the main event. Cheng Yujie is also in th emix with a time of 24.56 tonight.
Chinese Olympic Qualifiers Through Day 8
- Note: times crossed out means a swimmer was faster than the qualifying standard, but was either faster at a prior qualifying meet, or are not in the top two swimmers during the qualifying period.
OQT’s Clocked Thus Far at the 2024 Chinese Nationals
- Men’s 100m free –
Pan Zhanle (46.97), Wang Haoyu (48.11) - Men’s 200m free – Pan Zhanle (1:45.68), Ji Xinjie (1:45.86)
- Men’s 400m free – Pan Zhanle (3:45.58), Zhang Zhanshuo (3:45.82)
- Men’s 800m free – Zhang Zhanshuo (7:47.84), Fei Liwei (7:47.86)
- Men’s 100m back – Xu Jiayu (52.39)
- Men’s 100m breast – Qin Haiyang (58.24), Sun Jiajun (58.73)
- Men’s 200m breast –
Qin Haiyang (2:08.87) - Men’s 100 fly – Wang Changhao (51.20), Sun Jiajun (51.54)
- Men’s 200m fly – Niu Guangheng (1:55.46)
- Men’s 200m IM –Wang Shun (1:55.35)
- Women’s 100m free – Yang Junxuan (52.68), Wu Qingfeng (53.25)
- Women’s 200m free – Yang Junxuan (1:54.37),
Li Bingjie (1:56.29) - Women’s 400m free – Li Bingjie (4:04.03), Liu Yaxin (4:04.88)
- Women’s 800m free –
Li Bingjie (8:25.43) - Women’s 1500m free – Gao Weizhong (16:05.19)
- Women’s 100m back – Wan Letian (59.02), Wang Xueer (59.61)
- Women’s 200m back –
Peng Xuwei (2:07.57), Liu Yaxin (2:08.41) - Women’s 100m fly –
Zhang Yufei (56.36), Yu Yiting (56.82) - Women’s 200m fly – Zhang Yufei (2:06.40), Chen Luying (2:06.81)
- Women’s 100m breast – Tang Qianting (1:04.39), Yang Chang (1:06.79)
- Women’s 200m breast – Ye Shiwen (2:22.55)
- Women’s 200m IM – Yu Yiting (2:09.73)
OQT’s Clocked From 2023/2024 World Championships
- Men’s 100m free – Pan Zhanle (46.80), Wang Haoyu (48.06)
- Men’s 1500m free – Fei Liwei (14:50.51)
- Men’s 100m back – Xu Jiayu (52.54)
- Men’s 100m breast – Qin Haiyang (57.69),
Yan Zibei (59.23) - Men’s 200m breast – Qin Haiyang (2:05.48), Dong Zhihao (2:07.94)
- Women’s 50m free – Zhang Yufei (24.15), Cheng Yujie (24.45)
- Women’s 100m free –
Cheng Yujie (53.39) - Women’s 200m free – Li Bingjie (1:55.83),
Liu Yaxin (1:56.97) - Women’s 400m free – Li Bingjie (4:01.62),
Yang Peiqi (4:05.73) - Women’s 800m free – Li Bingjie (8:13.31)
- Women’s 1500m free – Li Bingjie (15:45.71)
- Women’s 100m back –
Wan Letian (59.49) - Women’s 200m back – Peng Xuwei (2:06.74)
- Women’s 100m breast –
Tang Qianting (1:05.27), Yang Chang (1:06.75) - Women’s 100 fly – Zhang Yufei (56.12)
- Women’s 200m IM – Yu Yiting (2:08.74)
With this, China is slotting themselves in the conversation of men’s 4×100 medley gold.
The U.S are simply too good. China will be 1-2 seconds behind them
Except that China posted the fastest m4x100 medley last year, faster than the US.
China will be the heavy favourite in Mixed medley relays with xu, qin, zhang and yang almost breaks the world record with a time 3:37.73 clocked during the asian games last september, just 0.15sec outside the world record set by great britain in tokyo olympics.
My prediction at paris olympics
Gold- China
Silver – Great Britain
Bronze – USA
I think you’re overestimating GB. Peaty is back but not at his Tokyo level. Their other 3 legs are significantly worse than Tokyo. A medal for GB over Australia would be a surprise
Agreed.
Medleys are shaping up to be exciting races. If Wang Changhao is putting up a PB coming off a foot injury, I don’t think the fly leg will be that much of an issue for them. If he recovers then he should be able to go 50.5 or faster. If the US puts up a 49.5 fly spilt that’ll be a sec difference. Give Murphy a couple tenths maybe, but a 1.4 sec difference is nothing Qin and Pan can’t make up. This one will be close.
Hard to argue China is pretty firmly in the pole position for the mixed medley. This is probably the most likely relay WR to go this summer.
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I get what you’re saying about the men’s side but right now a lot of people seems to underestimate Alexy like he’s not gonna be that far off even if Pan outsplit him on free leg .
I’m not underestimating Alexy, or Dressel for that matter. I think Pan beating Alexy by 0.4 is reasonable, as is Qin beating Fink by a second. Dressel going 49.5 is also pretty reasonable
Yeah it’s likely Pan probably gonna be faster than Alexy on freestyle and beating Fink by a second on breastrokes is way too optimistic but I also do think USA probably gonna hold on with Alexy on the anchor leg.
Nah, China is winning that medley relay.
And WR might be threatened IF that fly leg is decent
Based on current times on paper, assuming everyone goes close to their best, China should win. However, USA haven’t had trials yet so that could easily change. Should be a great race regardless.
I need to run the numbers on the women. Tang is a bit of a game changer but it certainly doesn’t feel like China is in the race as much as Aus or USA at this point
Would be interesting to see what you think after looking at the numbers. On paper China may be ahead of Aus and more likely to challenge the US. With China vs Aus, the question is, McKeown vs Wan and Tang vs Aus’s breaststroker, which margin is going to be bigger? At least right now, Tang’s margin is likely to be bigger. So McKeon and MOC would have to do a bit of catch up against Zhang and Yang.
You’re right. The numbers do put China right in the mix. I guess it’s just easy to forget because they haven’t managed to put together a really competitive relay yet despite having all the pieces.
Seems like Paris is going to be a revival of sorts for China as a major swimming nation
Assuming everyone goes close to their best and USA have their trials ,it’s probably close between the two but I still think USA is a slight favorite based on their track record at the Olympics but yeah it’s gonna be great race for sure .
Based on their men’s 4×100 free track record at the Olympics (never beaten ever) USA should have won Sydney’s m4x100 free.
And then they didn’t.
Medleys are shaping up to be exciting races. If Wang Changhao is putting up a PB coming off a foot injury, I don’t think the fly leg will be that much of an issue for them. If he recovers then he should be able to go 50.5 or faster. If the US puts up a 49.5 fly spilt that’ll be a sec difference. Give Murphy a couple tenths maybe, but a 1.4 sec difference is nothing Qin and Pan can’t make up. This one will be close.
Hard to argue China is pretty firmly in the pole position for the mixed medley. This is probably the most likely relay WR to go this summer.
US still favored by a… Read more »
Paris Qualifiction
Love the new word we got now
Oooh here comes the medley relay. That’s a potential WR team.
China will be the same men 4x100m medley relay quartet that clocked the 2nd fastest time in history last year at asian games.
Xu jiayu – 52.05
Qin haiyang – 57.63
Wang changhao – 50.68
Pan zhanle – 46.65
3.27.01
The fly will always be chinas’s weak medley relay leg.
But with their WR freestyler it won’t make a difference