(Tokyo Olympics) Swimming opens gold battle, Chinese women breaks Asian record again

　　China News Service, Tokyo, July 25th (Reporter Zhang Su) The Tokyo Olympic swimming event started on the 25th to compete for the first final day.

The Chinese women will once again break the Asian record for the women's 4x100m freestyle relay. Rising star Zhang Yufei continued his outstanding performance and successfully advanced to the first place in the women's 100m butterfly semifinals.

　　In the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay finals, the Chinese team, which had just set a new Asian record in the preliminaries the day before, was still played by Cheng Yujie, Zhu Menghui, Ai Yanhan and Wu Qingfeng. They finished seventh with a score of 3:34.76. Break the Asian record again.

　　The Australian team won the championship in 3:29.69 and broke the world record at the same time.

This is the first world record born in this Olympic Games.

The Canadian team and the United States won the runner-up and third runner-up.

　　The first gold medal in swimming in this Olympics was won by American athlete Khaliz. He won the men's 400m medley final with a time of 4:09.42.

　　In the women's 400m medley final, Japanese player Yui Ohashi won the first gold in the Olympic swimming competition with a time of 4:32.08 as the host.

After the game, the swimming star cried with joy.

　　In the men's 400m freestyle final, under the help of many experts, the eighteen-year-old Tunisian swimmer Havenoy, who was only 18 years old and thrilled to advance in the preliminary round, suddenly emerged and won the gold with a score of 3:43.36. Australia Player McLoughlin won the silver medal, and Australian teenager Smith, who ranked first in the preliminary rounds, ranked third.

On July 25, local time, Chinese player Zhang Yufei was in the game.

On the same day, the Tokyo Olympic Games women's 100-meter butterfly semifinal was held at the Tokyo Aquatic Center. Chinese athlete Zhang Yufei advanced to the final with a time of 55.89 seconds.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita

　　In the women's 100m butterfly semi-finals that day, the highly anticipated Chinese star Zhang Yufei continued to perform well, scoring 55.89 seconds and swam into the "56-second mark" again after the preliminaries the day before.

She is also the only player in the semifinals to swim through the "56-second mark".

　　Zhang Yufei expressed satisfaction with her state after the game. She participated in the Olympics for the first time, saying that she is not nervous about this arena now and will "enjoy the next game."

　　In the men's 100-meter breaststroke semi-finals, Chinese player Yan Zibei performed well and entered the final with a fourth overall ranking.

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