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Shan Ying steals the show
HIROSHIMA. Oct 3 Chinese new-■ omer Shan Ying' swam the third fastest time ever recorded in the-women's 100-inetre freestyle to capture the first gold medal of the Asian Games swimming competition Monday, reports AP. •
Making her Asian games debut, the teen-ager powered to a 54.40-second finish, just a touch ahead of teammate Lu Bin and fast enough for a Games record.
Lu, who won five medals at the World Championships in Rome last month, finished in 54.42 while Japan's Naoko Imoto was third in 56.67.
The Chinese women, who won 12 of 16 events at Rome, are expected to once again propel their team to overall domination of swimming at the pGames. Thirty-one gold me dais will be awarded in six days of competition.
In the other finals Monday. Asia's top men's breasts!roker. Akira Hayashi of Japan, won the 400-metre event hi a Games . record one minute. 2.04 seconds: China's Lin Li took the women's 400 Indirid ual medley and another Chinese. Xiong Guoniing. -.truck
gold in the men's 200 freestyle. also setting a Games record. ■ •
Hayashi, who placed fifth al the World Championships in both the 100-and 200-metre events, broke the 4-year-old Asian Games record of 1:02.60.
China's Wang Yiwu. 19. swimming in his first b.ig international competition, was second in 1:03.42 and teammate Chtn Jianhong came in third in 1:03.94. Chen, who had held the old record, said he was too old at 26 and would . retire after Hiroshima.
Lin Li. holder of both the Asian and Games records in the 400 individual medley, fought off a challenge by teammate and world champion Dai Guohong in. the breaststroke leg..
Lin finished .in 4:40.47. with Dai second in 4:45.64. Japan s Hitomi Maehara, who narrowed the gap over the last 25 metres, was the bronze medalist in 4:46.42.
Xiong lowered the Games men s 200 freestyle record to 1:50.95, finishing Just ahead of Japan's Taihei Maeda, who was timed In 1:51.08. Third was Kazunori Hikida, also of Japan. In 1:52.75. The old record, set In Beijing four years ago. stood at 1:51.90.
Xiong, also making his de-
but in major competition, said he had done nothing bur .-at. sleep -and train over I lie past six months.
In the day's premier race. Shan was clocked at 26.36 over the first 50 metres and held off a final challenge by Lu to win in a tjme that broke the 4-year-old Games record of 55.12 set by China's Zhuang Yong.
At Rome. Lu and teammate Le Jingyl both broke the then world record of 54.48. with Le winning in 54.01. Shan's effort Monday made hers the thi/d fastest time recorded.
Le. who will be swimming In Ihe 50-metre sprint here, bowed oyt of the 100 since she had Just recovered from a muscle ailment.
Shan said she and her teammates were still tired from the World Championships and were not in particularly good shape. But she and other teammates said China was looking •fonvard m bettering more world marks at the 1996 Olympics In Atlanta.
Asked why the Chinese women were so good, the 25 year-oid veteran individual medley champion Lin said. "We can take punishment, other can't. Eastern girls can really eat bittefiiess.