Su Bingtian wins China National Games relay silver alongside ‘his student’ Yan Haibin
- Photo finish sees Guangdong pipped to 4x200m gold by Shandong province in Asian record time
- Asia’s fastest man is associate professor at Jinan University where relay teammate and 100m rival Yan Haibin attends
Su is an associate professor at Jinan University in his native Guangdong province where the 18-year-old is a student, something the veteran track star made light of after his 100m final victory on Tuesday.
“Actually, I came here to compete as a teacher. Yan Haibin, who raced against me today, is a student of my university. This was a race between a teacher and his student, which is a memory I will treasure,” Su told CCTV after winning gold in the final where Yan finished fourth.
Su ran the first leg of Thursday’s relay final with Yan running the last leg for Guangdong. The team, which also included Zhang Ruixuan and Mo Youxue, only just missed out to the Shandong team who set a new Asian record.
Both teams were clocked at 1:20.83 but the photo finish saw Su and his teammates handed silver by the smallest of margins after Shandong’s Qiao Zhen just beat Yan at the finish line. Sichuan finished third in 1:21.12.
