Shi Jinglin of Jiangsu retained her 200m breaststroke in 2:22.66, followed by 15-year-old Zheng Muyan of Tianjin in 2:25.19 and Yu Jingyao of Beijing in 2:25.82.

On the women's beach volleyball court, Beijing Olympic bronze medalist and defending champion Xue Chen and her new partner Ma Yuanyuan swept Xia Xinyi and Wen Shuhui 2-0 to set up a final clash against Wang Fan/Yue Yuan.

Xue, who captured the gold medal of the event four years ago with Zhang Xi, reaped the 21-10, 21-19 victory with Ma in the semifinals where Wang/Yue beat Chen Chunxia/Wei Zhaochen 21-19, 22-20.

"We started to play together about two weeks ago, we never expected to go this far," said the 28-year-old Xue. "We just tried to take one match at a time and it feels good to be in the final again."

In the men's semifinals, Gao Peng/Li Yang beat Halikejiang/Bao Jian 2-0 while defending champions Li Zhuoxin/Zhang Lixin lost to Chen Cheng/Li Jian 21-16, 21-14.

At table tennis, the younger pair of Zhou Yu and Fan Zhendong, representing the Chinese Army, beat a Beijing-Shanghai combination of Olympic and world champion Ma Long and Xu Xin 4-3 to take the men's doubles title, while Gu Yuting of Shandong and the PLA's Mu Zi were crowned at the women's doubles.

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