Zhang Zhanshuo Units World Junior Report in 400 Freestyle; Li Bingjie Claims Title
The primary night time of finals on the Chinese language Nationwide Video games featured a world junior document, as Zhang Zhanshuo claimed victory within the 400-meter freestyle. Zhang produced a successful time of three:42.82, which bettered his 3:42.99 from earlier this yr that was the unofficial WJR. The official world junior document belonged to Petar Mitsin, who recorded a mark of three:44.31 in 2023.
Zhang is a rising star for China within the distance-freestyle occasions, together with the 400 particular person medley. He has helped his homeland to a few relay medals on the World Championships and appeared on the rostrum in 5 occasions on the 2023 World Junior Championships in Netanya, Israel.
Zhang was joined as a gold medalist within the 400 freestyle by veteran Li Bingjie, who captured the ladies’s occasion in 4:01.17. The silver medalist within the occasion finally summer season’s World Championships, Li was pushed by teenager Yang Peiqi, who recorded a private better of 4:01.90. Yang is the reigning world junior champion within the 400 freestyle.
In semifinal motion, Zhang Yufei topped the ladies’s 100 butterfly in 57.22 whereas Wang Changhao grabbed the highest seed for the ultimate of the lads’s 50 butterfly. Wang touched in 23.39, simply forward of the 23.41 of Xu Fang. Qin Haiyang was quickest within the semifinals of the 100 breaststroke, going 59.20, and 13-year-old Yu Zidi went 2:11.88 within the semifinals of the ladies’s 200 particular person medley, with Yu Yiting subsequent in 2:11.96.
