Yang Jintong is a Chinese competitive

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. He won the gold medal in the 800 meter freestyle at the

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in Singapore. He also won the silver medal in the 400 meter freestyle behind

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. In 2014 at the 2nd FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in

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, Hungary, Yang won the silver medal in the 5 km youth event. Together with his teammates Qiao Zhongyi and Yan Siyu, he won the gold medal in the mixed team event. At the senior 2015 Chinese Championships in

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, Yang finished second in the 400-meter freestyle, behind reigning Olympic champion

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1998 births Living people Chinese male freestyle swimmers Male long-distance swimmers Asian Games medalists in swimming Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2018 Asian Games 20th-century Chinese people 21st-century Chinese people {{PRChina-swimming-bio-stub