China’s 13-year-old swimmer Yu Zidi smashed the Asian Games record as she won gold in Japan on Sunday, two years out from the Los Angeles Olympics.
Yu, who turns 14 next month, romped home in the women’s 200m butterfly in 2min 05.08sec to shave almost half a second off the time set by China’s Zhang Zufei three years ago in Hangzhou of 2:05:57.
Her time in winning her first major gold medal was 3.36 seconds faster than China’s Chang Mohan, who took the silver.
It was the first of three individual events Yu is scheduled to compete in at the Asian Games, where swimming events are being held in Tokyo.
China’s Yu Zidi competes in the women’s 200m butterfly final at the China Open Swimming Championships in Shenzhen, in China’s southern Guangdong province on March 19, 2026.Yu became the youngest swimming world championships medallist in history last year when
This post was originally published on this site.
