Swimming

World Champion Tang Qianting Fires Off 1:04.68 100 Breast Asian Record

April 20, 2024

2024 CHINESE NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Friday, April 19th – Sunday, April 27th
Shenzhen, China
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The first Asian Record of the 2024 Chinese National Swimming Championships went down tonight in Shenzhen and it happened in the semi-finals of the women’s 100m breaststroke.

20-year-old Tang Qianting fired off the fastest time of her life to hit the wall in 1:04.68, dipping under the 1:05 barrier for the first time.

Tang is coached by Pierre Lafontaine, former CEO of Swimming Canada, head coach of Swimming Canada, and head coach of the Australian Institute of Sport.

Tang opened in 29.74 and closed in 34.94 to erase her own Chinese national record of 1:05.27 from this year’s World Championships. That garnered her the gold medal in Doha.

Lafontaine is a former Swimming Canada CEO and National Team Director.

Her performance tonight also overtook the previous Asian Record of 1:05.19 Japan’s Reona Aoki put on the books at the 2022 Japanese World Championships Trials.

Comparing Tang’s swim to that of the current 1:04.13 world record, the Chinese ace was quicker on the way out than American Lilly King was in 2017.

Lilly King‘s Current WR-1:04.13	Tang’s New Asian Record-1:04.68	Aoki’s Old Asian Record-1:05.19	Tang’s Chinese Record-1:05.27
29.80	29.74	30.54	30.25
34.33	34.94	34.65	35.02