2023 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- July 23 to 30, 2023
- Fukuoka, Japan
- Marine Messe Fukuoka
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
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- Entry Book
- Live Results (Omega)
- Day 2 Prelims Live Recap
- Day 2 Finals Live Recap
Qin Haiyang has done it again. In the finals of the men’s 100 breast at the 2023 World Championships, the Chinese swimmer once again broke the Asian record, clocking a time of 57.69 to win his race by over a second. He took 0.13 seconds off his previous Asian record time of 57.82 which was set in the Worlds semi-final, and is the first Chinese swimmer to ever win a World title in the men’s 100 breast.
In addition, Qin passed Arno Kamminga to become the second-fastest performer of all-time in the men’s 100 breast.
All-Time Top Performers, Men’s 100-Meter Breaststroke:
- Adam Peaty, Great Britain — 56.88 (2019)
- Qin Haiyang, China — 57.69 (2023)
- Arno Kamminga, Netherlands — 57.80 (2021)
- Michael Andrew, United States — 58.14 (2021)
- Nicolo Martinenghi, Italy — 58.26 (2022)
In 2023, Qin has broken the 58-second barrier three different times. His best time coming into this year was a 58.63, but he shattered that PB at Chinese Nationals this May when he went 57.93 to become the third man to ever go under 58 seconds. He then went 57.82 at Worlds semis before going 57.69 in the final.
Compared to his semi-finals swim, Qin was 0.35 seconds faster on his front half and 0.22 faster on his back half.
Splits Comparison:
| Qin Haiyang, 2023 World Championships Final | Qin Haiyang, 2023 World Championships Semi-Final | |
| 50m | 26.96 | 27.31 |
| 100m | 30.73 | 30.51 |
| Total | 57.63 | 57.82 |
Behind Qin in the 100 breast final, there was a three-way tie for silver between America’s Nic Fink, Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi, and the Netherlands’ Arno Kamminga.
If Peaty’s record gets broken in the next year, then every men’s record going down in the next two years seems possible.
Light work… MA did that this morning in practice (when you add up our 12.5s). Trust the process though! LETS GOLF!!
Asian record falls,
Qin Haiyang’s breaststroke soars,
Second all-time’s call.
Great swim
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If it is the case, then they are not hiding it very well haha.
Smoking the competition by over a second, dropping insane amounts of time from PB etc.
🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇
He will be tested here I’m sure like every other athlete.
With this username, this just reads as satire
Is there a race video anywhere?
NBC
https://youtu.be/RRxHfMuRmF8
Whenever I looked at the world junior record page on wikipedia I saw this guy listed and wondered what happened to him and here he is morphing into a breaststroke monster.
Peaty must be truly shook and wondering if he should return for Paris.
also a decent IMer. he was 1:57.0 as a junior and went 1:56.7 at 20. also has a 400 im pb that would make a final. will be interesting to see if he targets the 200 im again
He had lots of 200m breast WJRs but it seems none of them were apparently ratified.
He held the WJR before it was broken earlier this year but it was much slower than his unratified swims.
Where did this dude come from!!!
If you follow elite swimming, you’d know him
I’m guessing you don’t.
In fairness, yes he was a good junior 5 – 6 years ago, predominantly in the 200m, but he has not done allot since . That is until earlier this year when he started dropping mad amounts of time.
At tast year’s World’s he didn’t even make the Chinese team for the 100m! Now he is blowing away the rest of the world by over a second and suddenly looking like he has the potential to break Peaty’s WR on his current trajectory.
I don’t think 12 months ago, even the keenest followers of elite swimming saw this coming somehow.
Well actually 🤓
He posted good times but never really showed up at major meets. Nothing wrong with questioning him when he keeps doing nothing at the biggest stage.
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i know what he has done this year and what he did as a junior but he has never been at or close to this level