2025 CHINESE NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- May 17-24, 2025
- Shenzhen, China
- LCM (50 meters)
- Day 1 Recap
- Results
Video courtesy of @SwimCoverage
🇨🇳2025年全国游泳冠军赛
女子200IM
余依婷 2:08.67
于子迪 2:10.63Yu Yitingが8秒台で今季世界ランク4位！
2012年10月生まれ12歳の🇨🇳Yu Zidi
PB大幅PB更新して2分10秒台
Aqua A標準を突破して世界選手権へ！！ https://t.co/Zzke858RpU pic.twitter.com/Y2RikDYoNW— 競泳NEWS (@swimcoverage) May 18, 2025
Yesterday, we reported that 12-year-old Yu Zidi set a new lifetime best of 2:12.52 in the women’s 200m IM semi-final at the 2025 Chinese National Championships.
Well, buckle up because the youngster just destroyed that already other worldly swim with a new personal best of 2:10.63.
Yesterday, Yu split 27.80/34.11/39.43/31.18 to nab the 3rd seed and establish herself as the fastest 12-year-old female (or male, for that matter) in history.
For perspective, Yu’s previous swim obliterated the current U.S. National Age Group Records for girls and boys.
Teagan O’Dell owns the girls’ NAG at 2:18.69 while Richard Poplawski owns the boys in 2:13.59.
Flash forward to tonight and Yu split 27.47/32.98/39.44/30.74 to earn silver behind winner Yu Yiting who grabbed gold in 2:08.67.
Yu easily cleared the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 2:12.83 needed to qualify for the World Championships. She now ranks 14th in the world on the season.
2024-2025 LCM Women 200 IM
McIntosh
WR 2:05.70
| 2 | Alex WALSH | USA | 2:08.45 | 06/07 |
| 3 | Abbie WOOD | GBR | 2:08.55 | 04/19 |
| 4 | Yu Yiting | CHN | 2:08.67 | 05/18 |
| 5 | Kaylee MCKEOWN | AUS | 2:08.58 | 04/21 |
| 6 | Mary-Sophie Harvey | CAN | 2:08.78 | 06/09 |
| 7 | Ella RAMSEY | AUS | 2:09.21 | 06/09 |
| 8 | Phoebe BACON | USA | 2:09.22 | 06/07 |
| 9 | MIO NARITA | JPN | 2:09.68 | 03/20 |
| 10 | Anastasia GORBENKO | ISR | 2:09.85 | 05/21 |
| 11 | Katie Shanahan | GBR | 2:09.88 | 04/19 |
| 12 | Caroline BRICKER | USA | 2:10.12 | 06/07 |
| 13 | Regan SMITH | USA | 2:10.25 | 05/03 |
| 14 | Rebecca Meder | RSA | 2:10.39 | 04/10 |
| 15 | Tara KINDER | AUS | 2:10.42 | 06/09 |
This caliber of performance is par for the course for Yu, building on her breakout times established at the 2024 Chinese Nationals and Summer Championships.
You can review Yu’s head-turning performances from last year here and here.
2:08.52, 200m fly semi today. Can she be even faster in tomorrow’s final and even get another WC event entry?
Richard Poplawski catching the least expected strays in history.
1:59:32 on 200 free today
She also hit a 54.7 leading off her provinces 4×100 relay, unbelievable
I hope she maintains her trajectory and gets faster while being older. It would be awesome to witness another generational talent so soon after McIntosh.
Never going to happen.
She may still have 400 IM and even 200 fly in front of her.
She’s entered in 400 IM, 200 FR, 800 FR, 100 BK, 100 BR, 200 FL in no particular order
and 1500FR, 100 FL, 400FS, 100 FR – She looks like she is going to win all 20 individual events there are in LA 2028.
Who needs to get out of pool??? Not her
Yes. I mean these two events are her greatest chances to get another WC ticket.
Not that it really matters but you’ve got Yiting ranked 3rd in the world with a 2:08.67 but McKeown ranked 4th with a faster 2:08.58
Yu Zidi’s time was so fast it broke maths.
I couldn’t stop myself from committing laughing
If we’re going pound for pound shes gotta have a case for most impressive swimmer in the world
this would be #3 in the 15-16 NAG rankings and almost 2 seconds faster than the 13-14 record lol