Qin Haiyang

Qin Haiyang is a Chinese swimmer, born on 17 May 1999, who specializes in the breaststroke and the individual medley. At the 2023 World Aquatics Championships he became the first man to win all three breaststroke events at a single edition of the meet, and his 2:05.48 in the 200 metre breaststroke broke the world record that Zac Stubblety-Cook had set the year before. He also set Asian records in the 50 and 100 metre events. At the Asian Games held at Hangzhou in 2023 he again won all three individual breaststroke events, took silver in the 200 metre individual medley and was named most valuable player of the Games with his teammate Zhang Yufei. In 2023 World Aquatics named him male swimmer of the year, the first Asian swimmer to receive the award. At the 2024 Paris Olympics he swam the breaststroke leg of the Chinese medley relays that won gold in the men's race and silver in the mixed race, and in 2025 he added a world championship gold in the 200 metre breaststroke.