Zhu Qianwei
Guangzhou, Nov 13: China showed the whole Asia about its power in Swimming, in the opening day of Asian Games, by clinching four gold medals out of six to offer. With very tough rivals opposite of them Japan, China won the gold in women’s 200 metres freestyle, women’s 100 metre butterfly and women’s 50 metre breaststroke in the individual events. They overtook their fierce rivals Japan this night, though Japan was succeed in taking the rest of other two gold, China took the fourth gold in women’s 4 multiplied by 100 medley relay, in front of great support from the home crowd at Guangzhou’s Aoti Aquatics Centre.
Zhu Qianwei gave China gold in women’s 200m freestyle, and with that making 1000th gold for China in the Asian Games. Zhu’s final time was 1:56.65 while her compatriot Tang Yi was in second position and Japan’s Hanae Ito has to satisfy with bronze. The Olympic silver medallist in 200m butterfly Jiao Liuyang won the women’s 100m butterfly with a timing of 57.76 seconds, with silver medal occupied by Singapore’s Tao Li and Japan’s Yuka Kato winning the bronze. Wang Randi gave the third gold to China in women’s 50m breaststroke with a reach in 31.04 seconds, with a very narrow win from Zhao Jin, while bronze gone to Japan’s Satomi Suzuki.
While the final event of Saturdays night, saw a very close battle between two rivals China and Japan, in women’s 4 multiplied by 100 medley relay, with Hong Kong taking the third place. China won the close event with a timing of 3:57.80, with just less than half a second ahead of Japan where the crowd roared and cheered up the China’s Tang Yi in the final length of the race. Zhao Jing, Chen Huijia and Jiao Liuyang were the other team members.
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