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Associated Press
Jul 26, 2025, 11:23 PM ET
SINGAPORE -- The globe got its archetypal look connected Sunday astatine 12-year-old Chinese prodigy swimmer Yu Zidi, making her debut astatine the swimming satellite championships.
She did not disappoint connected the opening time of the eight-day contention successful the excavation successful Singapore.
Yu, who has been swimming astounding times successful China, clocked 2 minutes, 11.90 seconds successful the 200-meter idiosyncratic medley to beforehand to the semifinals. Her clip was the 15th fastest of the 16 qualifiers.
Her clip was a spot disconnected her season-best clip of 2:10.63.
Yu volition aquatics 3 events successful Singapore including the 400 IM and the 200 butterfly. The 200 IM is astir apt her weakest event.
Her times successful the butterfly and 200 IM successful the caller Chinese championships are among the champion successful the satellite this season. Her champion times successful those 2 events would person been bully for 4th spot past twelvemonth successful the Paris Olympics.
World Aquatics, the governing assemblage of satellite swimming, has an property bounds of 14. However, swimmers are allowed to vie if they are younger if their times surpass a qualifying standard.
Yu wore a achromatic headdress and a grey suit and did not talk aft the race.
