Chinese spring swimming National Champ (2-5/3/07)

Not many results were found from the internet. Manage to get some fragments. There were 2 meets holding at the same time in Fuzhou (south) and Tangshan (north). A glance of results:

W800m fr (S): You Meihong (GD) 8:39.92
W200m fr (S): Zheng Yifei (GZA) 2:03.13
W50m fr (N): Han Xue (BJ) 26.32
M400mfr (N): Zhu Yanbin (Qiqihaer) 4:04.89
W400m fr (S): Yu Xin (GD) 4:13.02
M200m fly (N): Liu Weijia (LN) 2:01.04
M200m Br (N): Liu Weijia (LN) 2:20.51
W100m fly (N): Huang Xiaotong (SD) 1:01.13
W200m IM (S): Li Xuanxu (GD) 2:15.42
M1500m fr (N): He Xiaofeng (SH) 15:54.20
W200m back (N): Wang Yu (HeB) 2:16.67
M100m Br (S): Wang Mengjian (FJ)
M200m Br (S): Wang Mengjian (FJ)
M100m Fly (S): Chen Ronghui (FJ)
M200m Fly (S): Chen Ronghui (FJ)
M100m back (S): Wang Yi (FJ)
W400m IM (N): Yu Yang (SD) 4:53.29

Here, we saw three 10th National Games champions in action: Liu Weijia (200m br), Wang Mengjian (100m br) and Huang Xiaotong (200m fly). Also, Han Xue, former world short course women's 50m breaststroke world record (30.77) holder is making a comeback in 50m free, an event she concentrated in later part of her career before her last retirement in 2001. Her pbs are: 50m free is 25.62, 100m free is 55.76, 50m breast: 31.89 (long course). She was 1996 and 2000 Olympian. She won bronze in 96 4x100m medley swimming breaststroke leg. It will be great if she makes it to 3rd Olympics but she needs to improve tremendously since Shanghai has Zhu Yingwen and Xu Yanwei who both can swim low 25s consistently. From this meet, we also found that Guangdong women are going strong and they start doing better in long distance freestyle producing 2 quality times in women's 400m fr (4:13.02 by Yu Xin) and 800m fr (8:39.92 by You Meihong). They have shown their efforts to get away from the image that Guangdong woman can only do well in backstroke. Another quality swim was also contributed by Guangdong in 200m IM in which Li Xuanxu swam 2:15.42, a world top 25 swim. As mentioned in the last post, Yu, You and Li are all 8:40 swimmers in 800m fr and Yu and You both produced pbs in their winning events this time. After Zhejiang, Shangdong and Tianjin, Guangdong may pose a great impact in domestic female long distance free. Time will tell.