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TIANJIN, Sept. 2-- China's top swimmer Sun Yang stormed to a runaway victory in the men's 200m freestyle here Saturday for his second title at the ongoing 13th National Games and the 101st of his career. The 25-year-old Olympic and world champion from Zhejiang province, who built up an early lead of half a second in the first 50m, clocked one minute and 45.15 seconds for the gold, more than two seconds faster than the second-placed Shandong swimmer Ji Xinjie. Sun's winning time is the third fastest of the season, but would have been enough for him to win last July's world championships in Budapest since the second fastest in 2017 was Townley Haas' 1:45.03 in the United States championships. The season best result was scored by Sun in the Budapest worlds, just 0.76s less than that bringing him the National Games triumph on Saturday. The world record of 1:42.00 was set by Paul Biedermann of Germany eight years ago in Rome. "The victory was kind of comfortable here for me," admitted Sun, the first Chinese man to win an individual Olympic gold in the pool when he took the 400m and 1,500m freestyle events at the 2017 Olympic Games in London. "But it's still necessary for me to take part in the short distance events as many as possible to improve my skills, especially on the start," he said. "I just want to swim my own course here, actually." The King of Freestyle as Sun was called by his fans, who added the 200m title in the 2016 Rio Olympics to compliment his distance collection, claimed his 100th gold of career two days ago at the quadrennial sports gala after winning his strongest event of 400m freestyle. | 
