Seventeen-year-old Chen Xinyi won the women's 50-meter freestyle title in 24.53 seconds at the Chinese National Championships on Sunday, just 0.02 seconds shy of the national mark set by Le Jingyi at the Rome World Championships 22 years ago.

Guangdong's Liu Xiang came second in 24.75, while the bronze was shared by Zhejiang pair Wu Yue and the Zhu Menghui on 25.31.

In the men's 1,500-meter freestyle Shanghai native Qiu Zi'ao won in 14:58.34.