The 2024 Doha World Swimming Championships continued, ending the 12th day of competition on February 14, in which the Chinese team won one gold and one silver, Tang Qianting won the gold medal in the women's 100m breaststroke, and broke the national record that had been in the dust for 15 years, and the Chinese team won the World Championships in this event for the first time in 21 years. Li Bingjie won another silver medal in the 1500-meter freestyle final, and the Chinese team temporarily ranked second in the swimming medal table with 2 golds and 2 silvers.
Women's 100m breaststroke final
1st place: Tang Qianting 1:05.27
2nd place: Schulten 1:05.82 (Netherlands)
Third place: He Shibei 1:05.92
Review of the semi-finals of the preliminaries
In the preliminaries, Tang Qianting swam a score of 1:06.16 and advanced to the semifinals as the first, in the semifinals, Tang Qianting still showed a superior state, swimming a score of 1:05.36 and won the first promotion, it is worth mentioning that this is her personal best, only 0.04 seconds away from the national record held by Ji Liping in the era of fast swimsuits, and another Chinese player Yang Chang ranked 3rd to advance to the finals.
Final Recap
Tang Qianting showed stronger strength from the moment she entered the water, and she has been dominating the game throughout the whole process, and there is almost no suspense in the game, Tang Qianting won the championship with a time of 1:05.27, leading her opponent by nearly half a second, and this result has created 3 history.
1. This is Tang Qianting's first long course world championship, helping the Chinese swimming team win the second gold medal in this World Championships.
2. Tang Qianting broke Ji Liping's 15-year-old national record of 1:05.32 held by Ji Liping (fast swimsuit era).
3. This is the second time that a Chinese player has won the World Championships in this project after 21 years after 21 years after Luo Xuejuan in 2001 and 2003, and it is the second time that a Chinese player has won the world championship in this event after 20 years after Luo Xuejuan in 2004!
Women's 1500m freestyle final
In this World Championships, most of the main forces of the Chinese swimming team did not participate, but for the world championship in a single event, Li Bingjie signed up for the competition, and in the previous women's 400-meter freestyle final, Li Bingjie won the runner-up with a time of 4:01.62.
In the 1500m freestyle preliminaries, Li Bingjie did not swim all her strength, but easily swam a preliminaries of 16:13.81 and advanced to the final as the third place, and on the morning of the final day, she also participated in the preliminaries of the 200 freestyle and ranked first to advance.
Final Recap
Li Bingjie and Yang Peiqi played hand in hand, Li Bingjie bit the opponent tightly in the first half, after 1100 meters, Li Bingjie overtook the second, but the hard power of Quadarella was stronger, after 1400 meters, it was already ahead of Li Bingjie 9 seconds 45 seconds, and finally Italy's Quaddarella won the championship, Li Bingjie was nearly 10 seconds behind, ranking second with 15:56.62 to win the silver medal, and Yang Peiqi won the sixth place.
40 minutes after the final, Li Bingjie played in the semifinals of the women's 200-meter freestyle, and continued to surpass her opponent in the last 50 meters, and finally finished tied for seventh and successfully advanced to the final.
In the men's 200-meter freestyle final, there was no Chinese player, Pan Zhanle was out of the preliminaries, Ji Xinjie ranked 12th and missed the final, South Korean star Huang Xuanyou won the gold in a long time, won the first gold in the World Championships, became the second person in Asia after Sun Yang, and the first in the semifinals.
Swimming preliminaries on February 14 schedule
Venue: Aspire Stadium