As we all know, people who like sports know that swimming is this sport, whether it is at the World Championships or the Olympic Games, Europeans and Americans have a monopoly position in swimming sports, and have always been their world, which has also given birth to many world-class swimming stars, such as Phelps, Thorpe, Rochte, Popov, Biondi and so on.
But in recent years, the Asian swimming world has sprung up, and three world-class swimmers have emerged in the main countries of China, Japan and South Korea, namely Sun Yang of China, Park Tae-huan of South Korea, and Kosuke Kitajima of Japan. They have excelled in their respective projects, led the way, and were once rulers.
Let's take stock of who are the three of them who are the kings of Asian swimming.
Kosuke Kitajima
Date of birth: September 22, 1982
Height: 178cm
Weight 68kg
A native of Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan, In 2002, Kitajima won the men's 200m breaststroke at the Busan Asian Games and broke the 10-year-old world record with a time of 2:09.97, becoming the first Asian athlete to break the swimming world record since 1972.
In 2004, Kitajima won gold medals in the men's 100m breaststroke and 200m breaststroke at the Athens Olympics and broke the world record in the 200m breaststroke again.
In 2008, Kosuke Kitajima won gold medals in the 100m and 200m breaststrokes at the Beijing Olympics, creating a history of Japanese athletes winning two gold medals in swimming events in two consecutive Olympic Games. He is also the first person to swim in Asia. Beijing Olympics 100m, 200m breaststroke gold medals.
Athens Olympics gold medal in the 100m and 200m breaststrokes.
Silver medal in the London Olympics 4×100m Medley Relay.
Gold medal in the 100m breaststroke at the 2003 World Championships.
Gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2007 World Championships.
In 2003, he broke the world record in the 100m breaststroke
In 2008, he broke the world record in the 100m breaststroke
In 2008, he broke the world record in the 100m breaststroke.
He announced his retirement on April 8, 2016
Park Tae-hwan
Date of birth: September 27, 1989
Height: 183cm
Weight: 75kg
A native of Seoul, South Korea.
Park Tae-hwan won three gold medals in the men's 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle and 1500m freestyle at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha
He won the gold medal in the men's 400m freestyle and the silver medal in the men's 200m freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
In 2010, Park Won won three gold medals in the men's 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle and 400m freestyle at the Asian Games in Guangzhou.
In 2011, Park Won won the gold medal in the men's 400m freestyle at the Shanghai World Swimming Championships.
In 2012, Park Tae-hwan won silver medals in the men's 200m freestyle and 400m freestyle at the London Olympics.
In December 2016, Park Tae-hwan won the gold medal in the men's 1500m freestyle at the FINA Short Course Swimming World Championships.
Park Tae-hwan in the 2010 Sports Star of the Year, Park Tae-hwan pushed Kim Yeon-na and Park Ji-sung to take the first place, showing his influence in Korean sports.
Sun Yang
Date of birth: December 1, 1991
Height: 200 cm
Weight: 92 kg
A native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, he was the captain of the Chinese national swimming team, the world record holder in the men's 1500-meter freestyle and the Olympic record holder in the men's 400-meter freestyle. He was the men's 400m freestyle and men's 1500m freestyle champion at the 2012 London Olympics and the men's 200m freestyle champion at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Sun Yang is the first Olympic World Championship Grand Slam champion in the history of world swimming to win the men's 200m freestyle, men's 400m freestyle and men's 1500m freestyle. He has broken the Olympic record once and the world record twice, and his total number of individual world championship gold medals has reached 11, ranking second in history, second only to Phelps with 15 golds. He is the first Chinese men's swimmer to win gold medals in two consecutive Olympic games. Chinese men's swimming has won a total of 19 gold medals in the World Series so far, and Sun Yang has won 14.
Sun Yang won the Best Men's Sports at the World Championships in 2013 and 2015. The 2013 SummerWorld World's Best Male Swimmer of the Year shows Sun Yang's strength.
Let's see, who is the strongest of the three Asian swimming giants?