He has set up the pools in recent months. Has done it with just twelve years. China Yu Zidi It had become one of the great revelations of the international swimming season and this Monday confirmed expectations during the 200 styles of the Singapore World Cup, test in which it ended Fourth to six hundredths of bronze.
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Born the October 16, 2012 In the Chinese city of Booding, in the province of Hebei, discovered swimming almost by chance, while making a visit to an aquatic park when I was six years old. A coach saw him swim and proposed to perfect his style. Yu Zidi accepted and began to form between corcheras, in which he progressed.
Thus, in 2021 he enrolled in the Club Hebei Taihua After betting on swimming and traveling to training the city of Hengshuiin the province of Hebei located south of Beijing, where Chinese training regime is submitted. He does it next to his idol and one of the great references in the last years of his country's swimming, the fondista Bingjie Li.
In those parts he has tanned until he lived his great explosion this season. A decade ago, after the participation of Baréin's swimmer Alzain Tareq In the Kazan World Cup with just ten years of age, World Aquatics, then fine, established a minimum age of fourteen years for participation in their events. Everything, in the event that the classification minimums were not met. Something not applicable to Yu Zidi, who is present in Singapore with all of the law because He achieved the direct pass times.
Last May, Yu Zidi made the minimum World Cup in 200 styles in the China Championship. Although it was not his main bet: Days later he got the 200 butterfly, in a distance in which he proclaimed national champion with a record of 2: 06.83 to become the fifth fastest woman of the year. It is in this distance, even more after touching the podium in the short test of the four swimming, it is where it starts for times as one of the great candidates for the medals. The 400 styles are another test that dominates and in which he aims to continue progressing.
Versatility and regularity
Yu Zidi had already noticed months before, during the China of China of Short Pool that took place in September 2024. At that time, With just eleven years, he already proclaimed National Champion of 200 free, 50 butterfly, 400 styles and 4×200 freea sample of its great versatility. Because no one in the world has swam in their time when he was age.
As shown, Yu Zidi has personal marks of 2: 09.21 in 200 styles (the one made in the final of the Singapore World Cup, after arriving with a better previous record of 2: 10.63), of those 2: 06.83 in the 200 butterfly and 4: 35.53 in 400 styles. They are the three tests in which it is focused on this World Cup, although it has also shown to be able to swim with a lot of solvency in 200 free (1: 58.09 this year) and even the free 100 (54.78 launched in a relay post). As a comparative, beyond its great performance in the 200 Singapore styles, His personal brands in 200 butterfly and in 400 styles they would have earned him to be fourth in both modalities in the Paris Games.
Swimming is a sport accustomed to early talents. The biggest swimmer in history, Katie Ledeckywithout going any further, he was proclaimed 800 free Olympic champion in London 2012 when he was barely fifteen. The woman who now fights against her to take her relief as a great female reference, Summer McIntoshexploded with its first world titles with sixteen. The Canadian, precisely, is the undisputed reference in the evidence in which Yu Zidi is moving to forced marches towards the world elite. But no one had positioned themselves so up at twelve years.
Yu Zidi has two tests ahead to try to make even more history in Singapore. In the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, the Danish Inge Sorensen The bronze medal was hung in the 200 Braza days after turning twelve. If Yu Zidi managed to get on the podium in the World Cup, it would be the youngest swimmer since then to be a large -scale international medalist. There is no doubt that, for times, it is prepared for it.
All this without forgetting the tremendous demand for swimming, a sport in which it is as difficult to explode as staying. But that first part is being carried out by Yu Zidi. He is being one of the great sensations in Singapore. That, despite the fact that his extraordinary story, at his twelve, just started.
