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China wins men’s freestyle relay, pushes gold count to 4

By Korea Herald

Published : July 2, 2013 - 18:10

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China won the gold medal in the men’s 4X100-meter freestyle relay at the Incheon Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games on Monday, with a new Games record of 3 minutes 15.74 seconds.

China’s qualifying time was 3 minutes 20.89 seconds, the fasted time in the preliminaries.

With the win, China took four of the seven gold medals on offer on the second day of the 25-meter short course swimming.

China was followed by Hong Kong, whose team cut its qualifying time by about 4 seconds to 3 minutes 18.62 seconds. The bronze medal from the category went to Indonesia with a finishing time of 3 minutes 19.10 seconds.

The Southeast Asian nation‘s squad had joined the finals in sixth place. Kazakhstan’s team was disqualified.

By Choi He-suk
(cheesuk@heraldcorp.com)