Chinese swimmer Sun Yang celebrates his victory in the final for the men's 400 meters freestyle event during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

China's swimmers provided ­another imposing demonstration of their ­seemingly bottomless depth of talent by scooping up six gold medals in the pool at the Asian Games on Tuesday.

Led by London Olympic champions Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen, the Chinese transformed the Munhak Aquatics ­Center into their own private pool party, winning all but one of the seven titles decided on the third night of the swimming finals.

Sun, who took a day off after ­being beaten by Kosuke Hagino in the 200 meters freestyle on Sunday, was ­better suited by the longer distance and avenged his loss to the rising Japanese star when he successfully defended his 400 meters freestyle title.

Ye, whose eye-popping performances at the London Olympic Games led to thinly veiled accusations from other ­nations about the source of her success, turned the women's 400 meters individual medley into a virtual time trial.

She steamed clear of the field from the start and was never challenged as she made an audacious attempt to break her own world record.

China also provided a sneak preview of their next wave of potential Olympic champions when teenage sensation Shen Duo picked up her third gold medal of the Games while Chen Xinyi, Fu Yuanhui and Ning Zetao all bagged their first.

But the biggest surprise came from Kazakhstan teenager Dmitry Balandin, the only swimmer to break China's ­monopoly on golds Tuesday.

The 19-year-old slashed nearly 6 ­seconds off his best time to win the men's 200 meters breaststroke gold and charge up the world rankings.

He stopped the clock in 2 minutes 7.67 seconds to take the gold ahead of Japan's Kazuki Kohinata and Yashuhiro Koseki.

Japan had swept the first six men's events on the opening two days of swimming but had to settle for three silvers and two bronzes on Tuesday.

Ning won the men's 50 meters ­freestyle sprint for China in 21.95, ­getting his hand on the wall just ahead of the Japanese pair of Shinri Shioura and Kenta Ito.

Hagino, who has already won three golds and a bronze in Incheon, collected his fifth medal of the meet when he finished runner-up to Sun.

The 20-year-old Japanese university student set off at a cracking pace and led for the first 100 meters but was soon overtaken by Sun and could not catch the towering Chinese.

South Korea's Park Tae-hwan finished third to claim his third bronze medal in his homeland after winning three golds at each of the last two Asian Games.

Ye, who has failed to match up to her London performances, was under world record pace for the first 250 meters of the women's 400 meters individual medley. She weakened over the concluding freestyle leg and stopped the clock at 4:32.97, more than 5 seconds ahead of Japan's Sakiko Shimizu and Vietnam's 17-year-old Nguyen Thi Anh Vien.

"After winning the London Olympic Games, I felt lots of pressure. I know the expectations of my supporters were high," said Ye.

"So I was distracted in my races and could not do well [even though] I performed really well in training."