2025 CHINESE NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
RECAP
On the first day of Chinese national championships 2025in progress a Shenzhenone of the most surprising performances of the season has arrived. The protagonist? A only 12 years old girl: Yu Zidi.
During the semifinals of the 200 mixed femaleYu swam an amazing time of 2:12.52improving their staff almost two seconds (2: 14.04 in 2024) and ensuring the Third qualifying time for the final, behind only a Yu Yiting (2:10.56) e Ye Shiwen (2:11.92).
The partials of the Yu race:
- Butterfly: 27.80
- Dorso: 34.11
- Rana: 39.43
- Freestyle: 31.18
This performance makes it The fastest 12 -year -old in the story in the 200 mixedboth among the girls and the boys. To give an idea of the level achieved, think that the Italian record -breaking record is 2: 17.73. To have a time that approaches that of the young Chinese we should go back up to the junior category, where the record belongs to Ilaria Cusinato With 2: 13.04 from 2015.
The talent of Yu Zidi he had already made himself known to the National 2024, but the time trial recorded on this occasion definitively consecrates it as An emerging star of world swimming. Eyes on today’s final.
