Russian Olympic Committee's Evgeny Rylov won the gold in the men's 200m backstroke with an Olympic record time of 1:53.27, beating Rio 2016 winner Ryan Murphy of USA at 1:54.15. Britain's Luke Greenbank took the bronze in 1:54.72. Rylov became the first non-American swimmer to win a ...
Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle won gold with a time of 46.40 seconds, breaking his previous world record of 46.80 seconds. Australian's Kyle Chalmers took silver with a time of 47.48 seconds, followed by Romania's David Popovici in the bronze-medal position with a time of 47.49 seconds...
China Swimmer Fails Drug Test Again
Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei made it to the women's 200m butterfly semifinals in the first place at Tokyo 2020. TOKYO, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Yufei of China cracked a time of 2 minutes 7.50 seconds to make the women's 200m butterfly semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday night...
Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei reaches the final of women's 100m butterfly as No.1 in the qualifying rounds with sub-56 second swims. TOKYO, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Yufei was satisfied with her sub-56 second race after reaching the Olympic final as No.1 in the women's 100m butterfly...
Joining Qin in lighting up the Hangzhou pool was women's reigning Olympic champion Zhang, who collected all three butterfly titles, a gold in 50m freestyle and two relay wins to equal Japanese swimmer Ikee Rikako's six-gold haul at the 2018 Asiad in Indonesia. Zhang achieved her medal tal...
Zhang Yufei of China competes during the heats of women's 200m butterfly at Tokyo 2020 on July 27, 2021. (Xinhua/Ding Xu) Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei made it to the women's 200m butterfly semifinals in the first place at Tokyo 2020. ...
Chinese swimmer Wang Shun in action during the men's 200m individual medley final at the Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, July 30, 2021. /CFP Wang, however, made good on his pre-tournament promise to win the gold, becoming the event's first new Olympic champion in 21 years after the ...
Citing doping control procedures that it said were not properly followed, the Chinese Swimming Association has backed swimmer Sun Yang's appeal of an arbitration court's decision banning him from competition for eight years over a controversial drug test. Sun, a three-time freestyle Olympic champio...
Clockwise from top: Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle celebrates his win and new world record in the men's 100m freestyle on Wednesday at the Olympic Games with silver medalist Kyle Chalmers of Australia and bronze medalist David Popovici of Romania in Nanterre in Paris, France. Chinese athlete Yang...