Asian Swimming Championships

The Asian Swimming Championships are a major aquatics event, held every four years among the athletes from Asian countries. It is conducted under the governance of the Asian Amateur Swimming Federation, ^[1] the governing body of aquatics in Asia.

The last edition of the Championships, the tenth, were held in 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. ^[2]

Editions

Year	Edition	City	Country	Dates
1980	1	Dhaka	Bangladesh [1]	4– June
1984	2	Seoul	South Korea	28 May – 5 June
1988	3	Guangzhou	China	2–12 April
1992	4	Hiroshima	Japan
1996	5	Bangkok	Thailand	12–15 April
2000	6	Busan	South Korea	28 March – 2 April
2006	7	Singapore	Singapore	5–10 March [3]
2009	8	Foshan	China	25–28 November
2012	9	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	15–25 November [4]
2016	10	Tokyo	Japan	14–20 November
2024	11	Capas	Philippines	Feb 26–March 9

Championships records

All records were set in finals unless noted otherwise. All times are swum in a long-course (50m) pool.

Men

Event	Time		Name	Nationality	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
50m freestyle	22.03	=	Katsumi Nakamura	Japan	20 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[5]
50m freestyle	22.03	=	Yu Hexin	China	20 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[6]
100m freestyle	48.57		Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	19 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[7]
200m freestyle	1:45.16		Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	17 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[8]
400m freestyle	3:42.49		Sun Yang	China	16 November 2012	2012 Championships	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	[9]
800m freestyle	7:53.25	†	Sun Yang	China	17 November 2012	2012 Championships	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
1500m freestyle	14:44.10		Sun Yang	China	17 November 2012	2012 Championships	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	[10]
50m backstroke	24.65		Xu Jiayu	China	19 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[11]
100m backstroke	52.75	r	Xu Jiayu	China	17 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[12]
200m backstroke	1:55.19		Xu Jiayu	China	18 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[13]
50m breaststroke	27.62		Yasuhiro Koseki	Japan	17 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[14]
100m breaststroke	59.99		Ippei Watanabe	Japan	18 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[15]
200m breaststroke	2:08.19		Ippei Watanabe	Japan	19 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[16]
50m butterfly	23.66		Masayuki Kishida	Japan	18 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[17]
100m butterfly	52.00		Li Zhuhao	China	17 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[18]
200m butterfly	1:54.53		Masato Sakai	Japan	19 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[19]
200m individual medley	1:56.66		Wang Shun	China	20 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[20]
400m individual medley	4:10.17		Daiya Seto	Japan	17 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[21]
4×100m  freestyle relay	3:16.37		Lin Yongqing  (49.23) He Jianbin  (49.38) Liu Zhaochen  (49.15) Yu Hexin  (48.61)	China	20 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[22]
4×200m  freestyle relay	7:13.14		Katsuhiro Matsumoto  (1:47.67) Tsubasa Amai  (1:48.52) Daiya Seto  (1:47.65) Fuyu Yoshida  (1:49.30)	Japan	18 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[23]
4×100m  medley relay	3:33.43		Xu Jiayu  (52.75) Li Xiang  (59.93) Li Zhuhao  (52.09) Yu Hexin  (48.66)	China	17 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[24]

Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by AASF;WR – World record;AS – Asian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat;sf – semifinal;r – relay 1st leg;rh – relay heat 1st leg;b – B final;† – en route to final mark;tt – time trial

Women

Event	Time		Name	Nationality	Date	Meet	Location	Ref
50m freestyle	24.90		Rikako Ikee	Japan	18 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[25]
100m freestyle	53.44		Zhu Menghui	China	17 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[26]
200m freestyle	1:56.71		Shen Duo	China	18 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[27]
400m freestyle	4:05.75		Xu Danlu	China	17 November 2012	2012 Championships	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	[10]
800m freestyle	8:22.24		Xu Danlu	China	18 November 2012	2012 Championships	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	[28]
1500m freestyle	16:36.46		Yu Rui	China	6 March 2006	2006 Championships	Singapore, Singapore
50m backstroke	27.38		Gao Chang	China	25 November 2009	2009 Championships	Foshan, China
100m backstroke	59.70		Fu Yuanhui	China	18 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[29]
200m backstroke	2:08.98		Chen Jie	China	20 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[30]
50m breaststroke	31.28		Satomi Suzuki	Japan	20 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[31]
100m breaststroke	1:07.77		Chen Huijia	China	27 November 2009	2009 Championships	Foshan, China
200m breaststroke	2:22.74		Reona Aoki	Japan	18 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[32]
50m butterfly	25.74		Rikako Ikee	Japan	18 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[33]
100m butterfly	57.12		Jiao Liuyang	China	27 November 2009	2009 Championships	Foshan, China
200m butterfly	2:06.23		Liu Zige	China	25 November 2009	2009 Championships	Foshan, China
200m individual medley	2:11.46		Yui Ohashi	Japan	20 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[34]
400m individual medley	4:37.71		Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên	Vietnam	17 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[35]
4×100m  freestyle relay	3:37.10		Sun Meichen  (54.90) Tang Yi  (54.78) Shen Duo  (54.16) Zhu Menghui  (53.26)	China	19 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[36]
4×200m  freestyle relay	7:54.98		Shen Duo  (1:59.37) Zhang Yuhan  (1:58.34) Ai Yanhan  (1:58.12) Wang Shijia  (1:59.15)	China	17 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[37]
4×100m  medley relay	3:57.97		Emi Moronuki  (1:00.98) Misaki Sekiguchi  (1:06.42) Rikako Ikee  (56.18) Tomomi Aoki  (54.39)	Japan	20 November 2016	2016 Championships	Tokyo, Japan	[38]

Legend: # – Record awaiting ratification by AASF;WR – World record;AS – Asian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat;sf – semifinal;r – relay 1st leg;rh – relay heat 1st leg;b – B final;† – en route to final mark;tt – time trial

See also

• Swimming at the Asian Games
• Diving at the Asian Games
• Synchronized swimming at the Asian Games
• Water polo at the Asian Games
• Asian Water Polo Championship

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