As part of his breaststroke triple crown at the Berlin stop of the World Cup, Qin Haiyang won the 100 breast in 57.69, tying the Asian record he set at 2023 Worlds.
Not only does the swim equal his Asian record, but it also reinforces him as the #2 performer all-time, behind only world record holder Adam Peaty. It’s also a new World Cup record, lowering the mark that Qin himself had set in prelims.
🇨🇳 Qin Haiyang takes the win in the 100m Breaststroke with a World Cup Record and is the second fastest swimmer ever after Adam Peaty // ⏱️ 57.69 #SWC23 pic.twitter.com/WFHceDhOKI
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) October 6, 2023
Courtesy: World Aquatics (via Twitter)
This swim marked the 5th time that Qin has broken 58 seconds in the 100 breaststroke, a feat that he, Peaty, and Arno Kamminga have achieved. Both Peaty and Kamminga were in the race, as well as Nicolo Martinenghi and Nic Fink, the other two 2023 Worlds medallists. In Berlin, Kamminga took second (59.01) while Caspar Corbeau was third (59.27).
Below is a split comparison of all the times that Qin has gone sub-58 from the first time he dipped below the barrier at Chinese Nationals to the Berlin World Cup.
Split Comparison
| 2023 CHINESE NATIONALS | 2023 WORLDS SEMIS | 2023 ASIAN GAMES | 2023 WORLD FINAL |
2023 WORLD CUP – BERLIN
|
| 27.04 | 27.31 | 26.69 | 26.96 | 27.09 |
| 57.93 (30.89) | 57.82 (30.51) | 57.76 (31.07) | 57.69 (30.73) | 57.69 (30.60) |
Compared to the other four times he’s been under 58 seconds, in Berlin Qin did not take the race out fast–as he did at Asian Games. And neither did he back-half the race; it seems that in Berlin he was able to find a balance between the two strategies.
His opening 50 in Berlin was the 2nd slowest of his five swims, and his closing 50 was his 2nd fastest, so it does seem that he may be leaning towards honing in on his back half speed right now.
Qin swept the breaststrokes in Berlin, just as he did at the 2023 World Championships. His efforts put him in the lead of the men’s World Cup series standings, with two stops still to come.
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Qin will be the biggest jumper in Swimswam most promising swimmers of 2024.
He was #70 in 2023 list, and he’ll be definitely in the top 10, or even top 5 of 2024 list
the biggest jump from within the list for sure, but mcevoy was unranked and will probably be top 15 now
marchand will probably be number 1 though, since he has a higher ceiling than qin (3 olympic events to qin’s 2) and has a level of consistency over 2022 and 2023 that no one else has
I imagine Hafnaoui would have to rank higher too, just because it’s an Olympic year so 50 strokes are not relevant (although there is worlds too…?)
That’s a hard one… 100 win as 2nd fastest performer and 200 WR vs 400 silver and 800/1500 double, all in fantastic times but no WR… Hafnaoui was close in all of his races while Qin was pretty dominant. Could go either way.
The top 10 from last year has fallen apart a bit…
- Milak – Oop
- Marchand – Moves to #1
- Popovici – Oop
- Ceccon – Not a terrible year but definitely not as good as expected
- Murphy – Same as Ceccon
- Kolesnikov – Hard to judge properly
- Dressel – Oop
- Paltrinieri – nothing in the pool but OW was ok
- Chalmers – Great year but hard to rank him much higher than this when he only has
… Read more »MA is going to have a breakout performance in Paris and win the 200IM.
Hafnaoui was already ranked #35.
Even if he’s in top 3, his jump won’t be as big as Qin or Macevoy
Wow. This also gives him the top 7 times in the event this year. Sjostrom and McEvoy are the only other swimmers to hold the top 5+ times in an event this year.