Pan Zhanle, Qin Haiyang and Tang Qianting of China all won gold medals on the second day of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Singapore on Friday.

Pan finished the men's 100-meter freestyle final in 46.09 seconds, defeating Thomas Ceccon of Italy by 0.16 second and Dylan Carter of Trinidad & Tobago by 0.51 second. It was his first victory in the event in a short-course pool after three World Cup stops in east China's Shanghai Municipality, Incheon, South Korea, and Singapore.

Qin touched the wall first in the men's 50-meter breaststroke final in 25.47 seconds. He edged Ilya Shymanovich of Belarus, who finished the race in 25.53 seconds. Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands came in third in 26.16 seconds. Qin has finished on top of the podium in this event at all three World Cup stops.

China's third gold came from Tang, who dominated the women's 100-meter breaststroke final in 1:03.10. She has also claimed all three titles after triumphing in Shanghai, Incheon and Singapore. Silver medalist Alina Zmushka of Belarus finished the final in 1:04.11. Benedetta Pilato of Italy bagged bronze in 1:04.56.

Yang Junxuan and Yu Yiting added two silvers for China. Yang finished 0.27 second behind Siobhan Haughey of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the women's 200-meter freestyle final. Haughey topped the podium in 1:51.80, while the bronze went to Brittany Castelluzzo of Australia.

Yu finished the women's 50-meter butterfly final in 25.05 seconds, touching the wall behind Kate Douglass of the USA, and ahead of Mizuki Hirai of Japan.

Leon Marchand of France won his second gold in Singapore after setting a new men's 200-meter individual medley world record in 1:48.88, beating runner-up Duncan Scott of Great Britain and third-place finisher Alberto Razzetti of Italy. 

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