The Swimming World Cup in Doha was held from October 21 to 23, and many Asian athletes participated in this competition. Hwang Sun-woo, who has surpassed his predecessor Park Tae-hwan's record many times, made his short-course debut.
In the 100m freestyle, he competed against Olympic champion Charlmers and freestyle star Morozov. In the end, Chalmers won three consecutive championships, and Huang Shanyu trailed Molozov by 0.15 seconds to finish third.
Doha men's 100m freestyle results
At present, there are two rookies of the same age who are currently in the limelight in the world swimming world, Matthew Stanz and Huang Shanyu. In the 200m freestyle, Huang Shanyu reversed in the last 50 meters to defeat South Africa's Matt Sates. Huang Shanyu finished 1:41.17 and Matthew 1:41.33
Both of them, one set the 200m freestyle long pool world youth record and the other set a new 200m freestyle short pool world youth record, both born in 2002, participated in the Tokyo Olympics this year.
In his previous races, Matthew set a world youth record in the short pool at 1:40.65 in the 200m freestyle and 1:51.45 in the 200m medley. He is the same age as Huang Shanyu and currently has a good score in the 200m freestyle and 200m medley.
Huang Shanyu's main event is the 100m and 200m freestyles, which began to emerge last year, breaking the Asian record in the 100-meter freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics and reaching the Olympic final. The gold medal in the 200m freestyle at Doha was also his first international gold medal.
At the South Korean national competition on October 12, he swam 1:48.02 in the 200m medley, raising the national record of park Tae-hwan by more than 2 seconds.
At present, Hwang Sun-woo has surpassed Park Tae-hwan's best result in many sports, and he still needs to win the championship and prove that he is stronger than Park Tae-hwan.