Final Day of Swimming Concludes at 2010 Asian Para Games

The final day of Swimming at the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games saw 17 gold medals awarded, one World record broken, four Asian records set and one swimmer pick up two gold medals.

China’s Jiang Shengnan was the World record breaker in the Women’s 50m Freestyle S8 setting a new time of 30.85 to secure gold. This beat the previous best set by Britain’s Heather Frederiksen in Iceland in October 2009.

Although Shengnan may have broken the World record, arguably the star of the final day was Chinese Taipei’s Lin Shin Wei who picked up two gold medals starting with the Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB13 in a time of 1:22.81.

His second gold medal performance on the day at the Aoti Aquatics Centre also saw him break the Asian record by recording a time of 28.80 in the Men’s 50m Freestyle S13.

Other Asian records fell to two Chinese swimmers, Lin Ping in the Women’s 50m Freestyle S9 in 30.83 and Zheng Yonggi in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB12 in a time of 1:14.96. Korean Lim Woogeun’s time of 1:38.76 in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB5 was also an Asian record.

Other gold medal winners on Friday included:

* Lin Shin Wei of Chinese Taipei in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB13 – 1:22.81

* Xu Qing of China in the Men’s 50m Butterfly S6 – 32.29

* Yang Tianshu of China in the Women’s 50m Butterfly S7 – 39.74

* Daisuke Ejima of Japan in the Men’s 50m Butterfly S7 – 33.76

* Guo Zhi of China in the Men’s 50m Freestyle S9 -25.79

* Kim KyungiHyan of Korea in the Men’s 50m Freestyle S4 - 43.06

* Yang Bozun of China in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB11 – 1:13.02

* Guo Jun of China in the Men’s 50m Freestyle S8 – 27.65

* Tomotaro Nakamura of Japan in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB7 – 1:23.97

* Luo Hsiao Hung of Chinese Taipei in the Women’s 100m Breaststroke SB5 – 2:04.25

* Chikako Ono of Japan in the Women’s 100m Backstroke S11 – 1:30.68

* China in the Men’s 4x100m Medley R -34 points

All Swimming events for the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games have now concluded. Host nation China topped the medal table for the pool picking up 102 medals, 48 of which were gold.

For all the latest results from the Guangzhou Asian Para Games which will run until 19 December and involve around 2,500 athletes from 41 countries competing in 19 sports, please visit www.gzapg2010.cn/en