2024 CHINESE NATIONAL SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Sunday, August 25th – Wednesday, August 28th
- Hefei, China
- LCM (50m)
- Days 1 & 2 Recap
- Results – via Asian media
During day 1 of the 2024 Chinese National Summer Championships, 11-year-old Yu Zidi ripped a new lifetime best of 2:09.86 to win the women’s 200m fly event.
Entering this competition, Yu’s personal best stood at the 2:14.04, a mark clocked just this past April at the nation’s Olympic Trials.
We reported how Yu’s time 2:09.86 is over 5 seconds faster than the fastest-ever American in the girls’ 11-12 age group. Cassidy Bayer owns the U.S. national age group record with the 2:15.02 put on the books in 2012.
Watching Yu’s race, the youngster split 28.53/33.59 (1:02.12)/33.65 (1:35.77)/34.09(2:09.86) en route to registering the monster performance. She breathed every stroke for the majority of the race and led the field wire-to-wire.
Yu tried the women’s 200m IM on for size on day 2 of the competition and doubled up with another gold medal-worthy performance.
Yu registered an effort of 2:12.57, a result which rendered the budding star just outside the top 15 Chinese performers in history.
Once again, Yu’s time would blow the current U.S. national age record to bits, coming in a full 6 seconds faster than Teagan O’Dell’s 2:18.69 from 2019.
The more I review the evidence, the more I feel that the 2:09.86 for an 11-yr old female is not at all achievable. This is not about population dynamics or we would have seen this type of a swim before now somewhere in the world before now. This time is ~5 seconds faster than Summer McIntosh swam when she was a 12-soon-to-be 13 year old. The sheer nature of the time being so vastly superior to ANY other 11 year old in history is what is so unbelievable. What’s even more unbelievable is the fact that the other 5 swimmers (not the 2006 and 2005 swimmer from the same heat), all went under 2:12.09.
Looking at the statistics and history of just one… Read more »
Was this filmed on a potato?
Probably doped
Most of the time I like being a big, strong, grown adult. But when training for 200 fly, sometimes I wish I was 40 kg with a limitless metabolism.
Ok, she’s 16 yo, perhaps 18 yo
Did I read it wrong or were all but two of the girls in this heat between the ages of 11-14 all going between 2:09-2:12?
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Worth noting that second and third were 13/14
Lol