Chinese male athlete climbed to the highest podium for the first time!, Qin Haiyang won the men's 100m breaststroke and broke the Asian record in swimming | competition | Asian record
The Fukuoka Swimming World Championships held their second day of swimming today. In the men's 100m breaststroke, they won the gold medal with a new Asian record of 57.69 seconds! This is the first time since the establishment of the men's 100m breaststroke that a Chinese athlete has stood on the highest podium.
For two consecutive days of competition, Qin Haiyang swam better and broke the Asian record, winning the championship with an absolute advantage.
In fact, as early as March this year at the Spring Swimming Championships, Qin Haiyang had the ability to break the Asian record for men's 100m breaststroke. At that time, he swam 58.66 seconds to win the championship, which was only 0.03 seconds slower than the Asian record held by Yan Zibei. He almost missed the Asian record and could not fulfill his promise to break the Asian record before the competition.
After the competition, Qin Haiyang once again stated that his goal at the May National Swimming Championships was to break the Asian record for men's 100 meter breaststroke.
In the final, Qin Haiyang swam with a good time of 57.93 seconds to win the championship, breaking Yan Zibei's Asian record of 58.63 seconds. This result inspired everyone. After the competition, he stated that after the National Spring Swimming Championships, he repeatedly watched videos to study and learn the details of Yan Zibei and Sun Jiajun's departure and turning. He is very grateful to his two teammates around him, and it is precisely because of their good competition that he has achieved his own results today.
For his future goal, Qin Haiyang revealed that he wants to win an Olympic gold medal and compete in the world breaststroke event dominated by British athlete Adam Pitty. Adam Pitty is the world record holder, who has set a world record of 56.88 seconds and is the only person to break the 57 second mark in the men's 100m breaststroke. So Qin Haiyang said that there are many challenges to winning an Olympic gold medal, and choosing to compete with breaststroke champion Adam Pitty requires enough courage.
Qin Haiyang once wrote on Weibo, "The path of climbing upwards is more exciting than standing at the top." The road ahead is persistent, and dreams will eventually come true.
The Paris Olympics, he continues to move forward!