2019 CHINESE NATIONALS
- March 24th – March 31st
- Swimming and Diving Hall of Qingdao Sports Center
- LCM
- SwimSwam Meet Preview
- Day 1 Recap
- Day 2 Recap
- Day 3 Recap
- Day 4 Recap
- Day 5 Recap
- Day 6 Recap
- Day 7 Recap
*Note: Results are only available through Chinese app
Olympic champion Sun Yang successfully completed his quartet of victories at these 2019 Chinese Nationals, capturing his final gold in the men’s 1500m freestyle tonight.
Registering a winning mark of 14:55.00, the 27-year-old Chinese icon represented the only swimmer in the field to dip under the 15:00 threshold, adding the gold medal to his other wins in the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle victories.
Sun completed the same feat in Jakarta last year, wrapping up his quadruple there with a mark of 14:58.53 time in the 1500m. His time tonight checks-in as his fastest outing in 4 years.
With his performance this evening, Sun now takes over the world rankings throne, displacing Croatian Franko Grgic who holds 14:56.55. The runner-up behind Sun in tonight’s final Ji Xinjie, inserts himself as the 4th fastest performer of the season with his silver medal-garnering effort of 15:03.38.
Ji had to settle for silver in all of the 4 races in which he saw Sun top the podium, but he put up some pretty impressive performances by his own right. Ji clocked 3:47.80 in the 400m free, 1:46.27 in the 200m free and 7:56.03 in the 400m free to finish behind Sun in all of his races here.
2018-2019 LCM MEN 1500 FREE
WELLBROCK
14.36.54
| 2 | Myhailo ROMANCHUK | UKR | 14.37.63 | 07/28 |
| 3 | Gregorio PALTRINIERI | ITA | 14.38.34 | 04/06 |
| 4 | David AUBRY | FRA | 14.44.72 | 07/28 |
| 5 | Henrik CHRISTIANSEN | NOR | 14.45.35 | 07/28 |
Sun commented post-race, “It was the event I felt the most satisfied among all the four events I have competed. I beat the barrier of 15-minute and clocked my best time in four years since I changed my focus to the middle distance after 2012 Olympic Games.
“I was so excited and happy because I found back my endurance for this marathon event and felt more confident in the mid-long distance events,” Sun said. (Xinhuanet)
Another Chinese Olympic champion got the job done tonight, as Ye Shiwen took her 3rd crown of these Championships. Ye has had a breakthrough comeback meet, already having captured the women’s 200m IM and 200m breast titles.
Tonight, the 23-year-old clocked a winning effort of 4:37.57 to take gold in the 400m IM, beating out 13-year-old Yu Yiting who touched in 4:44.50 for runner-up. Zhang Chenyao rounded out the top 3 in 4:45.69.
Shiwen’s performance at the 2012 Olympic Games got her the gold in a time of 4:28.43, a mark that still stands as the Asian Record in the event. Her outing tonight now ranks her as the 3rd fastest performer in the world this season.
2018-2019 LCM WOMEN 400 IM
HOSSZU
4.30.39
| 2 | Ye SHIWEN | CHN | 4.32.07 | 07/28 |
| 3 | Yui OHASHI | JPN | 4.32.00 | 06/28 |
| 4 | Sydney PICKREM | CAN | 4.35.15 | 04/04 |
| 5 | Emma WEYANT | USA | 4.35.47 | 08/02 |
Of her swim, Shiwen stated, “Compared with 200m IM and 200m breaststroke, 400 IM was the weakest part of my events. But it was a good sign that I am a reborn swimmer.” (Xinhuanet)
The women’s 50m free saw Liu Xiang put up the 6th fastest performance of the season tonight with her 24.70 win. That time would have earned bronze at last year’s Asian Games, a competition in which Liu took silver just .10 faster than this evening in 24.60.
Wu Qingfeng, just 15, took silver tonight in 24.77, while Zhu Menghui registered 24.92 for bronze.
2018-2019 LCM WOMEN 50 FREE
SJOSTROM
23.77
| 2 | Cate CAMPBELL | AUS | 24.00 | 04/28 |
| 3 | Simone MANUEL | USA | 24.05 | 07/28 |
| 4 | Pernille BLUME | DEN | 24.08 | 06/01 |
| 5 | Bronte CAMPBELL | AUS | 24.17 | 06/14 |
The men’s 50m back saw Xu Jiayu complete his sweep of the discipline, with the Olympic silver medalist producing 24.47 for the gold. His time now sits as the #2 performance in the world this season, just .07 off of Russian Kliment Kolesnikov’s 24.40 from the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.
2018-2019 LCM MEN 50 BACK
KOLESNIKOV
24.35 *WJR
| 2 | Michael ANDREW | USA | 24.39 | 06/21 |
| 3 | Vladimir MOROZOV | RUS | 24.40 | 08/16 |
| 4 | Zane WADDELL | RSA | 24.43 | 07/28 |
| 5 | Jiayu XU | CHN | 24.47 | 03/31 |
Suo Ran clocked the fastest mark of the women’s 50m breast, winning in 31.39. 14-year-old Tang Qianting and Yu Jingyao tied for silver in 31.46.
I think everyone should stop mentioning him! Even if he gets the medal from the officials, everyone in the swimming community should just pretend he isn’t even there…
Because he’s not relevant. He’s a cheat, nothing he does in the pool should be of concern to any other swimmer anymore.
Chinese scientists have been busy!!
Don’t worry, Dean will beat him anyway : )
“Sun Yang should be banned for life.” -Cody Miller Show
It’s a little funny that this is said by another famous cheater, who does multiple dolphin kicks in breaststroke events over and over again without feeling himself wrong.
Totally different. Cody Miller is American.
I was thinking more along the lines of Cody miller hasn’t failed doping tests and had huge scandals surrounding destroying samples and his behavior towards other athletes but sure they’re pretty much the same (sarcasm)
this is ridiculous – if the ref sees him cheating he gets DQ’d (as has happened several times). THere is nothing comparable with taking PEDs.
The logic here is so odd. He cheated in an Olympic final and got away with it – For some of us, that in unforgivable and no better than take a banned substance. Same goes for Cameron.
Same goes for Kitajima. In fact the 100m Breast was won by guys taking illegal fly kicks from 2004-2012 and setting WRs along the way. Also it is literally being done all the time on IM. Hozzu did it to win world short course and set WR. Thankfully the 100m Breast has been beat by Peaty and IM by Belmonte. Still not the same as doping though.
Only way to stop it is zero tolerance on fly kicks – go back to none on Breastroke and enforce with underwater cameras at big meets.
And then the playing field was leveled, the rules were changed, and Kitajima still won. Faster than ever at that.
I’d love to see someone do some analysis of 0 vs. 1 dolphin kicks, 1 vs. 2, 2 vs. 3 (disguised style of course) and the speed difference.
I’d be curious to see this as well. The type of kick is critical as you imply, Braden. The Kitajima kick definitely helped but I struggle to see how the kicks that Miller, Mew, van der Burgh etc used can help. You’re travelling at maybe 3m/s at that time and your feet are in a load of bubbles. The kicks are more likely to slow you down slightly, if anything.
Lochte does it also. He used to do a super quick dolphin kick with both legs right after his
breast kick…now he does it with just his right leg (while it’s trailing he gets a nice quick one in). He’s such a great athlete, and he can do it so fast, that it’s almost imperceptible from above the water.
I would say that the extra 2 kicks helps just as much for Miller’s events as PEDs helps Sun’s events.
Miller has been disqualified many times for this hasn’t he?
How many times has he got to be disqualified to know enough is enough & he gets a ban.
He also escaped being caught many times, didn’t he?
more than not, yes
“Sun Yang completes quartet” = does that mean he take four different kinds of pills? or four different injections?
Wu Qingfeng is currently 16. http://www.chineseswim.com/person.html?usercode=10231
Very useful link. Great mixture of Chinese and Arabic characters. 😀
Yet you missed the arabic characters used to list her birthday, which is relevant to a comment about her being 16.
Use the translation function in your browse. The times in this website is incomplete tho–some personal bests are missing. For example, Wu’s 100 free best time is 54.50, not 54.52 as it lists.
I was about to question her age listed here – She went 24.9 in 2017 and I thought we’d have heard about a 13yo going sub 25 haha
Florian Wellbrock went 14:49.62 last weekend in Halle for the fastest time this season.