China hauled 9 gold medals out of 9 swimming events in Macao on Saturday at the 4th East Asian games, following a harvest of 20 out of 24 events in the previous three days.

Chinese veteran Zeng Qiliang, 100m breaststroke champion at the games, shaved 0.16 seconds off the Asian record to win men's 50m breaststroke in a time of 27.83 seconds. Zeng's teammate Wang Haibo was second and South Korea's You Seunghun came in third.

"I geared up for the games after national games and got a good form here. But I am not sure where is my next arena for I think I am getting old," said 31-year-old Zeng.

Zhu Yingwen won women's 50m freestyle in 24.87 seconds, 0.38 seconds ahead of her teammate Xu Yanwei over the final strokes.

"No pressure at all here for me. I am the best in the event in China and I know my opponents well," said Zhu.

Huang Shaohua beat his teammate Chen Zuo, the Asian record holder, in men's 100m freestyle to add another gold to China in a time of 49.79 seconds.

"My time is my personal best today. But it's not the Asian best yet and I will make efforts for that next time," said Huang.

Women's 400m freestyle went to Chinese Tang Jingzhi with a time of 4:14.89, who only ranked fourth in the event at national games.

"I did not perform well in national games. This gold will help build up my confidence again. It's good enough to win the race although it was not my best time," said Tang.

Zhou Jiawei, who broke the 50m butterfly Asian record two days earlier, won the men's 100m butterfly with a new games record of 52.70 seconds.

14-year-old Wang Qun defeated her teammate Luo Nan, the bronze winner at national games, in 2:26.05 to add a second gold to her 100m breaststoke title, by which she beat the Athens Olympic gold medallist Luo Xuejuan, who was troubled by illness here.

"It's a big surprise to have two golds by winning the big names swimmers. I think it's too early to consider my performance in 2008 Olympics. I need most now is go on my training. The results are only a start for my swimming career and I would get myself reinforced by further experience," said Wang.

Backstroke specialist Ouyang Kunpeng won men's 100m backstroke in 1:54.41, which is new games record, to collect all three backstroke titles here.

"I just want to take a vacation. I felt tired after the national games and the EAG," said the gold medalist.

The women's 4x100m free relay gold also went to Chinese foursome in new games record of 3:40.79.

Turkey Universiade champion Aya Terakawa shared a gold with Chinese Gao Chang in a tied 1:01.70 in women's 100m backstroke to give Japan the only gold the night. Gao was the silver medallist in women 50 backstroke in Montreal.

Terakawa was also the 200m backstroke gold medallist here.

Source: Xinhua