The three-time Olympic gold medallist returned from a 51-month drugs ban to win a 400m freestyle final in China.
Disgraced three-time Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang has won his first title in the pool after coming back from a four-year doping ban.
The Chinese freestyler was originally suspended for eight years by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 2020 for smashing vials of blood during a 2018 test, the circumstances of which he still disputes.
The ban was reduced on appeal to four years and three months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2021. It expired in May, too late for him to join the Chinese team at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The swimmer instead earned his first post-ban gold medal on Sunday at the second-level Chinese National Summer Swimming Championships.
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