CHINESE OLYMPIC TRIALS #1
- Friday, April 30th – Saturday, May 8th
- Qingdao, China
- Primary Olympic Qualifier
- LCM (50m)
- Results via Asian Media
While competing on day 3 prelims of the 2021 Chinese Olympic Trials meet #1, 15-year-old Yu Yiting reportedly fired off a monster 200m IM time of 2:09.88. That not only claimed the top seed out of the heats, beating the next-closest swimmer Olympian Ye Shiwen by nearly 3 seconds (2:12.69) but it was enough to register a new World Junior Record.
The previous WJR was set by Japan’s Rikako Ikee at 2:09.98 back in 2017, so Yu managed to slice .10 off of that longstanding mark en route to writing her name into the history books.
Yu raced this same 200m IM even at the 2019 FINA World Championships when she was just 13 years of age. There in Gwangju, the youngster made it to the semifinals, ultimately placing 11th.
Flash forward to earlier this season and Yu put up a strong 2:11.64 in October, ranking her 13th in the world entering these Trials.
However, with her 2:09.88 outing here, the teen enters entirely new territory, now rocketing up the world rankings to capture slot #7 with the postponed Olympic Games fewer than 90 days away.
2020-2021 LCM Women 200 IM
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2:08.19
| 2 | Madisyn Cox | USA | 2:08.51 | 05/22 |
| 3 | Yui Ohashi | JPN | 2:08.52 | 07/28 |
| 4 | Alex Walsh | USA | 2:08.65 | 07/28 |
| 5 | Kate Douglass | USA | 2:09.04 | 07/28 |
| 6 | Abbie Wood | GBR | 2:09.15 | 07/28 |
| 7 | Sydney Pickrem | CAN | 2:09.24 | 06/21 |
| 8 | Miho Teramura | JPN | 2:09.55 | 04/06 |
| 9 | Yu Yiting | CHN | 2:09.57 | 05/04 |
| 10 | Alicia Wilson | GBR | 2:09.61 | 04/17 |
At just 15, Yu’s new World Junior Record renders the rising Chinese star as the 30th fastest performer to date worldwide, and the 9th fastest Asian woman ever.
Ye Shiwen 2:07.57 from London 2012 is the unofficial WJR.
There is only one young im swimmer like her. For that she was demonised.
How old was Alex walsh when she went 2:09.1 last year?
so she has 3 more years to lower it more and more
Actually ‘only’ one year and a half. She was born in 2005, so is eligible for wjr until the end of 2022.
So Ye Shiwen’s time at the 2012 Summer Olympics does not count as a world junior record? Come on, the super suit era ended 12/31/2009.
It doesn’t count by FINA’s definition. But, that’s why nobody really cares about FINA’s World Junior Records.
Records arent’ existential. They exist only on the basis of an organization that sets a list of standards and adheres to those standards in such a way that it gives the public some trust/care over the importance of the records. FINA’s World Junior Records exist because FINA is the IOC-appointed world governing body for sport. The more they erode that (via not recognizing some ISL meets, via these honky-tonk World Junior Records), the less import the records have. At some point, there will be room for *someone else* to track and record records that will become more recognized.
That being said, creating and… Read more »
FINA could retroactively go back to January 1, 2010 (associated with the return of the textile era) and rewrite the record books with regard to the world junior records.
How many countries since January 1, 2010 have been accused of manipulating times aside from Uzbekistan?
There were some accusations of manipulating results in India recently as well.
The problem isn’t saying “oh it’s just Uzbekistan,” it’s deciding where to draw the line. The easiest way to draw lines is with rules, rather than just sort of making up as you go “oh we trust this country, we don’t trust that country.” That leaves room for prejudice, lawsuits, protests, and all kind of other battles.
It’s similar to the idea you proposed as the end of the textile suit era. Why proclaim it January 1? Why is January 1, 2010 a better date than January 1, 2000? Those swims in 2008 and 2009 were legal. So you accept them as WRs but not WJRs? Well that… Read more »