Yu Zidi: The youngest medalist in the history of the swimming World Cup
Yu Zidi: The youngest medalist in the history of the swimming World Cup
The 12-year-old yu zidi from china has at the World Cup 2025 in Singapore. She was part of the team that won the bronze medal in the 4 × 200-meter freestyle relief competition.
brilliant achievements despite scarce results
Although Yu Zidi did not take part in the final of the competition, she was qualified for a medal, for a medal to get your country to qualify for the final. The golden team from Australia, consisting of Lani Pallister, Jamie Perkins, Brittany Castelluzzo and Mollie O’Callaghan, swam a time of 7: 39.35 minutes and secured first place. The United States won the silver medal with 7: 40.01 minutes, while China won third place behind the Americans with a time of 7: 42.99 minutes.
narrow defeats in the individual competition
yu Zidi just missed an individual medal in the women's competition over 200 meters butterfly and had to be satisfied with fourth place, 0.31 seconds behind the third -placed Elizabeth Dekkers from Australia. In addition, on Monday she also became fourth in the women's competition over 200 meters, with a deficit of only 0.06 seconds to the medalist Mary-Sophie Harvey from Canada.
A look into the future
yu will have a last chance on Sunday to win an individual medal at the World Championships if it will take over 400 meters in the women's competition, both the preliminaries and the final take place on this day.
review of the conditions of participation
The participation of Yu Zidi in the World Championships has raised questions about the conditions of participation of the competition. The swimming association World Aquatics has set a minimum age of 14 years for the World Championships, but Yus achievements are so outstanding that it is still qualified. Brent Noficki, the executive director of World Aquatics, pointed out during the championship that the guidelines have to be checked in the future.
"I would not have thought that I would have to have this conversation, but now I think we have to go back and say: 'Is that reasonable?'," Neawicki told reporters in Singapore, according to the associated press . "Is that really the right way to get ahead and do we have to take other measures? Should we allow certain conditions? I don't know the answer."
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