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}} Sun Yang (; born 1 December 1991)〔(Sun's bio page ) from China's 2008 Olympic team website; retried 2011-01-19.〕 is a Chinese Olympic and world-record-holding distance swimmer. He is the first Chinese male swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal. Sun swam for China at the 2008 Olympics.〔(Sun's entry ) from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2011-01-19.〕 At the 2010 Asian Games, he won the men's 1500m freestyle in an Asian Record; this swim and his two other medals at the Games were cited in his being named the Rookie of the Year at the 2010 CCTV Sports Awards.〔(Lin Dan, Wang Meng win China's CCTV Sports Personality of the Year ), published 2011-01-17 by People's Daily Online. Retrieved 2011-01-19.〕 At the 2011 World Championships, Sun broke the world record in the 1500 metre freestyle, set by Grant Hackett in 2001 and the longest-held world record in swimming at the time it was broken, and the only men's swimming record to not have been beaten during the techsuit era. He won the 400 m and 1500 m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Chinese man ever to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Olympic swimming: China's Sun Chang beats rival Park to gold )〕 At the 2012 Olympics, he was one of two male swimmers to win two individual titles, the other being Michael Phelps. ==Swimming career== Although Sun Yang had been swimming for several years, his international breakthrough happened at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. At the age of 16, Sun placed 28th in the 400 m freestyle (3:50.90), unable to reach the final. He rebounded from this by qualifying seventh fastest for the 1500 m freestyle in a time of 14:48.39. In the final he would go on to swim much slower and finish dead last in the Olympic final (15:05.12). This was just beginning of his career, as the following year at the World Championships in Rome, he would go on to win his first international medal with a bronze in the 1500 freestyle with a time of 14:46.84. He also placed 18th in the 400 freestyle (3:47.51). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sun Yang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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