Chinese swimmer Sun Yang showed up as promised in 400m freestyle heats Tuesday morning and managed to enter the final with the top result of three minutes and 51.17 seconds at Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatic Center here.
Sun was in lane 4 of the third heat, beside him in lane five was Park Tae-hwan, the 'Marine Boy' of South Korea, after whom the swimming venue has been named, reports Xinhua.
Sun was in the lead from the beginning and managed to expand his advantage over Park to reach home first.
There had been speculations that Sun might withdraw from the Asian Games after he lost to Kosuke Hagino of Japan and hurt his left thumb in Sunday's 200m freestyle.
His coach then confirmed Monday that Sun will remain in individual events including 400m freestyle Tuesday and 1,500m freestyle Friday, the last day of swimming competition.
