2023 CHINESE WORLD TRIALS
- Sunday, December 10th – Friday, December 15th
- Jinan, China
- LCM (50m)
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap
- Results via Asian media
Day three of the 2023 Chinese Nationals/World Championships Trials saw national record holder Qin Haiyang put up another impressive swim in his dominant breaststroke discipline.
24-year-old Qin stopped the clock in a mighty 26.25, giving him the decisive victory over his competitors.
Sun Jiajun posted 26.91 as the runner-up while Zheng Yinghao rounded out the podium well back in 27.47.
As for Qin, his outing fell just .05 shy of his lifetime best and Asian Record of 26.20, a time he produced in the semi-finals of the 50m breast at this year’s World Championships. There in Fukuoka, Qin ultimately grabbed gold in a final time of 26.29.
Great Britain’s Adam Peaty remains the World Record holder in this 50m breast event, courtesy of the 25.95 he put up at the 2017 World Championships. But Qin’s 26.20 PB renders him the #2 performer of all-time while tonight’s effort checks in as the 10th-best performance in history.
Qin’s gold medal-worthy time tonight is yet another demonstration of the man’s consistency, with the ace having nailed the top 10 performances of his career all within just several months.
Qin Haiyang‘s Top 10 LCM 50 Breaststroke Performances
SF=semi-final, H=heats
- 26.20 – 2023 World Championships (SF)
- 26.25 – 2023 Chinese Nationals/World Championships Trials
- 26.29 – 2023 World Cup Berlin, 2023 World Championships
- 26.30 – 2023 World Cup Budapest, 2023 World Cup Berlin (H)
- 26.34 – 2023 World Championships (H)
- 26.38 – 2023 World University Games (SF)
- 26.44 – 2023 World University Games (H)
- 26.52 – 2023 World Cup Athens
- 26.53 – 2023 World University Games
- 26.57 – 2023 World Cup Budapest (H)
At these Chinese Nationals, Qin took the 100m breast gold on night 1 in a time of 58.40 and last night ripped a split of 57.92 on his squad’s medley relay.
I feel like this man can literally roll out of bed and throw down a 26.
Feels like this dude has been on a taper for months now he’s so consistent in the 50 and 100 throwing down 26 lows/57 highs.
I am very interested in the type of training he does.
Perhaps, he is not brainwashed by the ”taper propaganda” that lives in the minds of just about every swimmer – present and past. If the body needs to be ”tapered” for one big meet per season, then how did Kaylee McKeown accomplished what she accomplished over three successive weeks at the recent Wold Cup meets in Germany, Italy, Hungary? The human body is limited by the mind, not by the body. We become our thoughts and our thoughts become our actions.
This man don’t miss