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Associated Press
Aug 1, 2025, 01:45 AM ET
SINGAPORE -- Chinese 12-year-old Yu Zidi has won a bronze medal astatine the aquatics satellite championships, an astounding feat for a miss who would beryllium a sixth- oregon seventh-grade pupil depending connected the schoolhouse system.
Yu earned the medal by swimming successful the prelims of China's 4x200-meter freestyle relay team. She did not aquatics successful the last connected Thursday -- China placed 3rd down winning Australia and the United States -- but gets a bronze medal arsenic a squad member.
She has been adjacent to winning an idiosyncratic medal, placing 4th successful some the 200 butterfly and the 200 idiosyncratic medley. She inactive has the 400 IM to swim.
Brent Nowicki, the enforcement manager of World Aquatics, said the governing assemblage would look astatine its age-limit rules. The bounds is present 14, but athletes tin scope the worlds if they surpass a pugnacious clip standard.
"I didn't deliberation I'd person this conversation, but present I deliberation we person to spell backmost and accidental is this appropriate?" helium said this week successful Singapore. "Is this truly the close mode to spell guardant and bash we request to bash different things? Put different guardrails up? Do we let it nether definite conditions? I don't cognize the answer."
He called Yu "great." He besides said officials had to beryllium "careful" astir the property issue.
Friday's league volition beryllium missing the 2 large stars of the conscionable truthful acold -- France's Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh of Canada. Both person nary last swims.
Five finals were acceptable for Friday. Some of the attraction volition spell to Evgenila Chikunova, swimming arsenic a Neutral Athlete. She holds the satellite grounds successful the 200 breaststroke wherever has the apical clip entering the final. The apical challenger is American Kate Douglass.
South African Pieter Coetze is the favourite successful the men's 200 backstroke. Yohann Ndoye-Brouard of France and Hurbert Kos of Hungary were the adjacent quickest qualifiers.
The different finals are successful the women's 100 free, the men's 200 breaststroke, and the men's 4x200 relay.
