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sun jiajun breaks 50m butterfly national record for the third time

2024-09-26

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last night (25th), the finals of the 2024 national swimming championships were held at the wuhan sports center swimming pool. sun jiajun, who had broken the national record twice and the asian record once in the men's 50m butterfly preliminaries and semifinals, continued his good form in the finals, improving his semifinal time of 21.97 by 0.01 seconds.
sun jiajun swam 22.39 seconds in the preliminaries, breaking his own national record of 22.63 seconds. in the semifinals, he swam 21.97 seconds, becoming the first asian athlete to swim under 22 seconds in this event. in the finals last night, sun jiajun, who started in lane 4, had a reaction time of only 0.59 seconds, and after entering the water, he swam faster and faster amid the cheers of the audience. sun jiajun was the first to reach the finish line in 21.96 seconds, breaking the national record again and pushing the limit of asian athletes in this event by 0.01 seconds.
in two days and three rounds, sun jiajun swam better and better, breaking the national record three times and surpassing the asian record twice, showing an excellent state. after the game, he said: "i didn't expect to achieve such a result. it was more tiring than i thought, but (the result) was a pleasant surprise." the 24-year-old sun jiajun is from yichang, hubei. he previously said that the cheers from his hometown elders gave him more motivation. in the men's 4×100m medley relay final at the paris olympics this summer, sun jiajun was ordered to replace the sick wang changhao in the third butterfly leg. he lived up to expectations and won the gold medal with xu jiayu, qin haiyang and pan zhanle, breaking the 40-year championship "monopoly" of the us team in this event.
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