Record Breaking Day in the Pool for the 2010 Asian Para Games

Day three of Swimming at the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games saw two World and five Asian records broken as well as 16 gold medals awarded.

Both records fell in the two finals of the Men’s 200m Freestyle S5 (with eligible classes S3, S4 and S5).

In the first race Korea’s Kim Kyung-Hyun’s time of 3:20.32 knocked more than a second and a half off the previous S3 World record set earlier this year in Eindhoven. Moments later though China’s Li Hanhua, who was competing in the second race, took another four seconds off the S3 record lowering it further to 3:16.45.

Neither time was good enough to beat Japan’s Suziki Takayuki who broke his own Asian record to win gold in 3:02.45.

In the Men’s 50m Freestyle S10, Iran’s Izadyar Shahin set a new Asian Record and won gold with a time of 26.91.

China’s Cai Hongmei followed suit in the next race, winning gold and lowering the Asian record in the Women’s 50m Freestyle S10 to 30.39.

The next record to fall was in the Men’s 100m Backstroke S8 where Yang Xiusen of China won gold and set a new Asian record time with 1:12.77.

In the final race of the day Malaysia’s Dawan Fraidden set the fifth Asian record of the day winning the Men’s 400m Freestyle S10 in a time of 4:50.35.

Other gold medal swims on Wednesday (15 December) included:

* Sawattarn Sutat of Thailand in the Men’s 100m Backstroke S13 – 1:16.51

* Wu Qing of China in the Men’s 200m Individual Medley SM6 - 3:02.49

* Jiang Fuying of China in the Women’s 200m Individual Medley SM6 - 3:16.99

* Kimura Keiichi of Japan in the Men’s 50m Freestyle S11 - 26.87

* Xie Qing of China in the Women’s 50m Freestyle S11 – 31.76

* Sriboonrueng Kitipong of Thailand in the Men’s 50m Freestyle S12 – 28.49

* Jin Xiaogin of China in Women’s 1000m Backstroke S8 – 1:22.68

* Zheng Tao of China in the Men’s 100m Backstroke S6 – 1:18.20

* Gao Nan of China in the Men’s 100m Backstroke S7 – 1:15.65

* Guo Zhi of China in the Men’s 100m Butterfly S9 – 1:01.73

* Kaewkham Voravit of Thialand in the Men’s Butterfly 50m S5 - 43:40

On Thursday, the penultimate day of Swimming competition, a further 16 gold medals will be up for grabs.