China’s Sun Yang finally won the Asian Games gold medal in the 200 free with a 1:45.43 on Sunday night in Jakarta, Indonesia. Sun had won two straight silver medals in the Asian Games in the 200 free, finishing behind Park Tae Hwan and Kosuke Hagino the last two times. Neither of those swimmers were swimming the event so the gold medal was Sun’s to lose.
Sun swam a 1:45.43 to finish almost a full second ahead of Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto (1:46.50) despite the Japanese swimmer going faster at Pan Pacs earlier this month. China got two on the podium with Ji Xinjie (1:46.68) finishing with the bronze medal.
Jordan almost made Asian Games history by winning their first medal in swimming but Khader Baqlah finished in fourth at 1:46.77. Baqlah is going to be a junior at the University of Florida.
Japan’s Naito Ehara (1:47.66), Malaysia’s Welson Sim (1:47.99), Korea’s Lee Hojoon (1:48.10) and Vietnam’s Huang Quy (1:50.57) also competed in the final.
This is China’s first gold medal in this event at the Asian Games since Liu Yu won in 2002 and it is their third overall gold as Sun joins Liu and Xie Jun (1990) as winners in the event for China.
- Sun Yang, CHN, 1:45.43
- Katsuhiro Matsumoto, JPN, 1:46.50
- Ji Xinjie, CHN, 1:46.68
- Khader Baqlah, JOR, 1:46.77
- Naito Ehara, JPN, 1:47.66
- Welson Sim, MAS, 1:47.99
- Lee Hojoon, KOR, 1:48.10
- Huang Quy, VIE, 1:50.57
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- Duncan Scott, GBR, 1:45.34, Europeans
- Sun Yang, CHN, 1:45.43, Asian Games
- Townley Haas, USA, 1:45.56, Pan Pacs
- Kyle Chalmers, AUS, 1:45.56, Commonwealth Games
- Andrew Seliskar, USA, 1:45.74, Pan Pacs
- Mack Horton, AUS, 1:45.89, Commonwealth Games
- Katsuhiro Matsumoto, JPN, 1:45.92, Pan Pacs
- Danas Rapsys, LTU, 1:46.07, Europeans
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