2024 WORLD AQUATIC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Swimmers stemming from the Asian continent had a profitable night time three of racing in Doha on each the ladies’s and males’s sides.
First, for the ladies, China’s Tang Qianting scored a brand new nationwide report en path to capturing the 100m breaststroke gold.
Simply 19 years of age, Tang fired off a lifetime better of 1:05.27 to get the job executed, falling simply .05 exterior of Japanese swimmer Reona Aoki‘s 1:05.22 Asian Report within the course of.
Dutch ace Tes Schouten earned the 1bresat silver tonight in 1:05.82 nevertheless it was Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey who rounded out the rostrum in a time of 1:05.92, a brand new nationwide report.
Haughey doubled up on occasions this night, chasing 100m breast gold after she already raced within the semi-finals of the 200m free. In that earlier contest, she secured the 2nd seed for tomorrow night time’s foremost occasion in 1:56.04.
Getting into these World Championships, Haughey held the Hong Kong commonplace within the 100m breaststroke along with her career-quickest 1:06.05. That was turned in ultimately December’s U.S. Nationwide Championships. Her efficiency this night, subsequently, represents the 26-year-old’s first-ever foray underneath the 1:06 barrier within the occasion.
Haughey’s medal additionally checks in because the first-ever for Hong Kong within the ladies’s 100m breast at a World Championships.
Previous Hong Kong Report – 1:06.05
New Hong Kong Report – 1:05.92
31.04
30.63
35.01
35.29
On the lads’s aspect, Korean Hwang Sunwoo efficiently secured gold within the 200m freestyle, upgrading his bronze from final yr’s version of the World Championships.
Though Hwang was sooner final yr in Fukuoka, registering a brand new nationwide report outing of 1:44.42, his results of 1:44.75 this time round was sufficient to get the job executed. Behind Hwang was 28-year-old Danas Rapsys of Lithuania who clinched silver in 1:45.05 whereas newcomer American Luke Hobson earned bronze in 1:45.26.
On the 2022 in Budapest, Hwang earned silver in 1:44.47. Meaning tonight marks the 20-year-old’s third consecutive podium at a World Championships, making him the first-ever Korean swimmer to perform the feat.
Nationwide/Continental Information By way of Day 3:
Medal Desk (Asia) By way of Day 2:
RANK
NATION
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
China
2
2
1
4
2
South Korea
2
0
0
2
3
Hong Kong
1
0
0
1
