Zhang Yufei Hits 50 Fly Season-Greatest, Wang Xizhe Posts Speedy 200 Fly To Shut Out CHN Nats

2026 CHINESE NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

The sixth and remaining day of the 2026 Chinese National Swimming Championships passed off in Hangzhou tonight, however not earlier than a number of extra swims impressed the house crowd on athletes’ journeys to potential Asian Games qualification.

28-year-old Zhang Yufei led the cost with a head-turning end result en path to gold within the ladies’s 50m fly.

Zhang, a 6-time Olympic medalist from the 2024 Games in Paris, delivered a time of 25.27, falling simply .18 outdoors her lifetime greatest and Chinese nationwide file of 25.05 she placed on the books on the 2023 World Championships.

Wu Qingfeng, already the ladies’s 50m freestyle victor right here, turned in a time of 25.48 because the silver medalist, whereas on-fire Yu Yiting bagged the bronze in 25.92.

Wu’s effort checked in as a brand new lifetime greatest, erasing the 25.72 notched simply final November. Yu’s end result was solely .21 from the 25.71 PB she established at that very same home competitors.

Zhang now takes over slot #3 within the season’s world rankings on this occasion, whereas Wu inserts herself into slot #5.

The males’s facet of the home noticed World Junior file holder Zhang Zhanshuo publish a speedy time of three:44.47 to seize the gold within the 400m freestyle.

That acquired him to the wall with a wholesome benefit over the next-closest swimmer, Fei Liwei, who settled for silver in 3:46.41. Xu Haibo additionally landed on the rostrum in 3:47.60, ok for bronze, with Olympic champion Sun Yang relegated to 4th place in 3:49.39.

As an 18-year-old final November, Zhang set the present WJR at a swift mark of three:42.82, so he was lower than two seconds off that end result with tonight’s efficiency.

Finally, the lads’s 200m fly produced some vital outcomes, with Wang Xizhe placing the nationwide file on discover along with his profitable time of 1:54.63.

That checked in simply over half a second outdoors the Chinese commonplace of 1:54.02 Chen Juner nabbed ultimately yr’s World Championships.

Splitting 26.04/29.73 (55.77)/30.00/2, 20-year-old World Junior champion Xizhe demolished his former PB of 1:55.97 to grow to be China’s 4th-fastest man in historical past.

Top 5 Chinese Men’s LCM 200 Butterfly Performers All-Time

1. Chen Juner – 1:54.02, 2025
2. Wu Peng – 1:54.35, 2008
3. Chen Yin – 1:54.43, 2012
4. Wang Xizhe – 1:54.63, 2026
5. Xu Fang – 1:54.74, 2025

Silver went to Niu Guangsheng, who touched in 1:55.36, and Chen snagged the bronze in 1:56.49.

Additional Notes

• National file holder Li Bingjie managed the ultimate of the ladies’s 800m freestyle, stopping the clock at a mark of 8:25.79. That was sufficient for the gold, though she was a lot faster this previous March when she logged a time of 8:16.27 on the China Open to rank 4th on the earth. Her PB stays on the Chinese benchmark of 8:13.31 she nabbed on the 2023 World Championshps. Silver this night went to Ma Yonghui, who touched in 8:28.55, with Gao Weizhong rounding out the rostrum in 8:29.45. Of notice, 13-year-old phenom Yu Zidi notched a time of 8:37.30 to seize fifth place.
• The males’s 200m backstroke was on the subdued facet, with a time of 1:57.50 swift sufficient to garner the gold. That time was carried out by Song Borui, with Olympic medalist Xu Jiayu snagging silver in 1:57.55. Pan Zhanle, sure, the 100m freestyle World Record holder, earned a stunning bronze within the race, hitting a lifetime better of 1:58.54.
• After a quiet competitors, World Record holder Qin Haiyang sealed the deal for gold within the males’s 50m breaststroke. The 27-year-old Olympic relay multi-medalist turned in a time of 26.90, inside hanging distance of the 26.75 season-best produced ultimately November’s Chinese National Games. Liu Junjie claimed silver in 27.07 and Dong Zhihao, the 2024 world champion within the 200m breast, hit 27.18 for the bronze medal.