On the 5th day of the Short Pool Swimming World Championships, the Chinese swimming team ushered in a bumper harvest, winning 1 gold medal, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal, of which 2 post-00s even shined at the World Championships! 16-year-old Yu Yiting broke the world youth record to win the silver medal in the women's 200m individual medley, and 17-year-old Tang Qianting won the gold medal in the women's 100m breaststroke with a record-breaking Asian record!
Tang Qianting
The women's 200m individual medley final took the lead, and the biggest favorite to win the championship was Douglas of the United States, who was the first in the preliminaries, and in the preliminary stage, Douglas swam an excellent time of 2 minutes 04.24 seconds. In the final, Douglas started on the 4th way and Yu Yiting started on the 5th way. Yu Yiting started the fastest response, after that, Canada's Pickrem also caught up, and in the final sprint stage, Yu Yiting, Pickrem, douglas competed fiercely! In the end, Pickrem was even better at winning the gold, Yu Yiting broke the world youth record in 2 minutes 04.48 seconds to win silver, and Douglas only swam 2 minutes 04.68 seconds to win the bronze medal.
Yu Yiting
After the women's 100m breaststroke final, Chinese teenager Tang Qianting started from the 4th lane, and in the previous semi-final, Tang Qianting ranked first and broke the Asian record for the project! In the final, Tang Qianting broke through herself again, once again breaking the Asian record set by her semi-finals, and won the gold with a very slight advantage of 0.03 seconds: Tang Qianting won the championship with a time of 1:03.47, and the runner-up Sweden's Hansen scored 1 minute 03.50 seconds.
Tang Qianting 0.03 seconds advantage miracle gold
The 17-year-old world champion was born: Chinese teenager Tang Qianting from Shanghai broke the Asian record in the semi-final and final 2, the final staged a 0.03 second miracle, and the women's 100m breaststroke was sealed!
In the end, the Chinese team led by Li Bingjie, who has won two consecutive gold medals, also won the bronze medal in the women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay, and the final lineup: Li Bingjie, Cheng Yujie, Zhu Menghui and Liu Yaxin.