On December 16, Beijing time, the first competition day of the Swimming Short Pool World Championships. In the women's 4x100 freestyle relay final, the Chinese team led by Zhang Yufei ranked 5th without a medal. In the highly anticipated 200m medley, defending champion Wang Shun finished 5th and missed the medal.
In the women's 4x100 freestyle relay final, the four sticks of the Chinese team were Cheng Yujie, Zhang Yufei, Zhu Menghui and Wu Qingfeng. In the first stick, Cheng Yujie performed smoothly, Zhang Yufei also performed normally in the second stick, and Sweden and Canada both came to swim under the pressure of the world record. The third stick is Zhu Menghui, who is still trying to catch up. In the fourth stick, Wu Qingfeng finally sprinted and finally finished 5th with a time of 3 minutes 31 seconds 17. The United States tied with Canada for the championship.
In the 200m medley preliminaries, Olympic champion Wang Shun reached the final with a total score of 1:53.95, with a total score of 6th. As the defending champion, Wang Shun won the championship three years ago with a time of 1:51.01. In the final, Wang Shun's opponents are very strong, Japan's famous Seto Daiya and Britain's famous Scott are all favorites to win the championship, and wang Shun's main opponents in the standard pool.
The race is on! Wang Shun was in the 7th lane, the first 50 meters, Seto Daiya was also ranked first, and Wang Shun was third. In the backstroke, Wang Shun was not good at it, falling out of the top three. Breaststroke PK, Seto Daiya is still ranked first, Wang Shun began to attack the medal. The final freestyle PK is Wang Shun's strong point, but he has fallen behind too much before, so he fell out of the championship ranks.
In the end, Seto Daiya remained strong from beginning to end, and finally won the championship in 1 minute 51 seconds 15 seconds, and Wang Shun won the fifth place in 1 minute 53 seconds 41 seconds, missing the medal. Of course, Wang Shun's competition was also accompanied by a knee injury, so he did not play his own level.
In the men's 100m breaststroke semifinals, Yan Zibei and Qin Haiyang, who played twice in a single day, performed steadily, ranking 6th and 7th in the semifinals with 57.19.19 and 57.23 seconds respectively, and both entered the final.