China’s Yu Zidi, 12, wins relay bronze medal at swim worlds

SINGAPORE — Chinese 12-year-old Yu Zidi has received a bronze medal on the swim world championships, an astounding feat for a lady who could be a sixth or seventh grade pupil relying on the college system.

Yu earned the medal by swimming within the prelims of China’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay crew. She didn’t swim within the last on Thursday — China positioned third behind successful Australia and the United States — however will get a bronze medal as a crew member.

She has been near successful a person medal, putting fourth in each the 200 butterfly and the 200 particular person medley. She nonetheless has the 400 IM to swim.

Brent Nowicki, the manager director of World Aquatics, mentioned the governing physique would have a look at its age-limit guidelines. The restrict is now 14, however athletes can attain the worlds in the event that they surpass a tricky time commonplace.

“I didn’t think I’d have this conversation, but now I think we have to go back and say is this appropriate?” he mentioned this week in Singapore. “Is this really the right way to go forward and do we need to do other things? Put other guardrails up? Do we allow it under certain conditions? I don’t know the answer.”

He known as Yu “great.” He additionally mentioned officers needed to be “careful” in regards to the age concern.

Friday’s session shall be lacking the 2 huge stars of the meet thus far: France’s Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh of Canada. Both haven’t any last swims.

Five finals had been set for Friday. Some of the eye will go to Evgeniia Chikunova, swimming as a Neutral Athlete. She holds the world report within the 200 breaststroke the place she has the highest time coming into the ultimate. The prime challenger is American Kate Douglass.

South African Pieter Coetze is the favourite within the males’s 200 backstroke. Yohann Ndoye-Brouard of France and Hubert Kos of Hungary had been the following quickest qualifiers.

The different finals are within the ladies’s 100 free, the boys’s 200 breaststroke and the boys’s 4×200 relay.