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People's Daily Online, Beijing, February 14 (Reporter Yang Lei) In the early morning of February 14, Beijing time, the 2024 World Swimming Championships ended the competition for the third day of the swimming event. China's Tang Qianting won the women's 100m breaststroke and broke the national record, which was also her first gold medal at the World Championships. Li Bingjie won the silver medal in the women's 1500m freestyle.
In the previous women's 100m breaststroke preliminaries and semifinals, Tang Qianting ranked first. In the final held in the early hours of this morning, Tang Qianting started in lane 4, and finally she won the championship with a time of 1:05.27 and broke the national record. The Netherlands runner-up finished second and Hong Kong's Ho Sze Pei finished third. Another player from the Chinese team, Yang Chang, finished seventh. Speaking after the match, Tang said: "Thank you to my teammates and opponents for pushing me forward, this moment is a very special moment for me and I am very happy. ”
In the women's 1500m final, Li Bingjie won a silver medal with a time of 15:56.62. The Italian won the championship and the German finished third.
In other events, Li Bingjie advanced to the women's 200m freestyle final, while Ai Yanhan stopped in the semifinals; Fei Liwei and Zhang Zhanshuo both missed the men's 800m freestyle final; Wang Xizhe stopped in the men's 200m butterfly preliminaries.
This afternoon, the women's 50m backstroke, men's 100m freestyle, men's 200m medley, women's 200m butterfly and mixed 4 100m medley relay heats will take place. The men's 800m freestyle, women's 200m freestyle, men's 200m butterfly, men's 50m breaststroke and mixed 4 100m medley relay finals will take place tomorrow morning.
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