In the early morning of July 30, Beijing time, the swimming event of the Paris Olympics entered the third day of competition, and a total of 5 gold medals were born, namely the women's 400-meter medley, women's 100-meter breaststroke, women's 200-meter freestyle, women's 100-meter backstroke, men's 200-meter freestyle and men's 100-meter backstroke. The Chinese team entered three finals, Xu Jiayu competed in the men's 100-meter backstroke, Tang Qianting entered the women's 100-meter breaststroke final, and Yang Junxuan competed in the women's 200-meter freestyle.
In the men's 200m freestyle final, Romania's Popovic won the gold medal in 1:44.72, United Kingdom's Richards won the silver medal in 1:44.74, and United States' Hobson won the bronze medal in 1:44.79.
In the men's 100m backstroke, Xu Jiayu swam 52.02 seconds in the semifinals and ranked first to advance to the final, in the final, Xu Jiayu finally won the silver medal in 52.32 seconds, Italy's Chekong won the gold in 52 seconds, and United States' Murphy won the bronze medal (52.39 seconds). This is the closest the Chinese swimming team has come to winning the gold medal at the Paris Olympics.
In the semifinals of the women's 100m breaststroke, Tang Qianting's time was 1:05.83, ranking 4th overall and advancing to the final.
Tang won the silver medal in 1:05.54, South Africa's Smith won the gold medal in 1:05.28, and Ireland's Mike Sally won the bronze medal.
In the semifinals of the women's 200m freestyle, Yang Junxuan swam 1:55.90 and ranked 5th overall to advance to the final. In the final, China's Yang Junxuan finished fifth in 1:55.38, and Hong Kong's Ho Sze Pei won the bronze medal with a time of 1:54.55. Australia's Molly O'Callaghan and Ariane Titmus won gold and silver, with O'Callaghan setting an Olympic record of 1:53.27.
In the Paris swimming competition, the United States team won 2 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze ranked 1st in the medal table, Australia won 2 gold and 2 silver ranked 2nd, Canada won 1 gold and 1 silver ranked 3rd, Italy, France, Germany and Romania each won 1 gold medal, and the Chinese team won 2 silver and 2 bronze, but there was still no gold medal in the account. Zhang Yufei won two bronze medals and was the first swimmer from the Chinese swimming team to win two medals at this Olympic Games.