In the women’s 100m breaststroke event at the 2024 Chinese National Swimming Championships in Shenzhen, Tang Qianting made history by breaking the first Asian Record. At just 20 years old, she achieved a personal best time of 1:04.68, surpassing her own Chinese national record of 1:05.27 set earlier this year at the World Championships in Doha. This performance was also faster than the previous Asian Record held by Japan’s Reona Aoki, who set it at the 2022 Japanese World Championships Trials.
Tang’s impressive split times of 29.74 for the opening and 34.94 for the closing were both faster than the current world record of 1:04.13 set by American Lilly King in 2017. With this new record, Tang is now ranked as the fifth-fastest swimmer in history for women’s LCM (long course meters) breaststroke event. She is also a contender for the Paris 2024 Olympics alongside silver medalist Yang Chang and bronze medalist Yu Jingyao, who finished in second and third place respectively with times of 1:06.23 and 1:07.95.
Both Tang and Yang achieved the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification Time of 1:06.79 in this race, making them eligible for consideration for the Paris Olympics Games in France next year.
In conclusion, Tang Qianting made history at the 2024 Chinese National Swimming Championships by breaking an Asian Record in women’s