Anh Vien continues to break the Games record, winning the AIMAG 5 gold medal

Vietnam's swimmer won the women's 100m individual medley (25m pool) after 1 minute 00 seconds 68 at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games on the evening of September 25.

Anh Vien smiles after winning. Screenshot.

In the first final, Nguyen Thi Anh Vien proved to have no rivals in her specialty. She quickly broke away from the starting block. After the first 50m, she was 0.27 seconds ahead of Kan Cheuk Tung Natalie. In the last 50m, Chinese swimmer Zhang Chenyao made a strong breakaway but still could not catch up with Anh Vien.

The Vietnamese swimmer finished first after 1 minute 00.68 seconds, breaking Zhou Yanxin's Games record at Incheon 2013 by 0.56 seconds. Zhang sadly won the silver medal because she lost by 0.23 seconds, while the bronze medal went to her Chinese compatriot - Qian Xinan.

This is the gold medal and also the second Games record of Anh Vien at AIMAG 5, after her achievement of 2 minutes 09 seconds 78 in the 200m individual medley. At that time, she also defeated Zhang and Qian by a large margin (2 seconds 89 and 4 seconds 15 respectively). The "Little Mermaid" closed the Games with two gold medals and one silver medal.

Women's 100m individual medley leaderboard.

On the final day of swimming, Vietnam also had another final event, the men's 4x100m medley relay. In the qualifying round, Tran Duy Khoi, Truong The Anh, Huynh Man Dat and Nguyen Huu Kim Son achieved the seventh best result with 3 minutes 45 seconds 24.

Anh Vien's victory raised Vietnam's total gold medals to 11. Also on September 25, the male-female duo Nguyen Trung Kien and Pham Hong Anh won the gold medal in Salsa Sports Dancing.

According to VNE