Chinese 12-year-old Yu Zidi has received a bronze relay medal on the swim world championships

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 varsity system.

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

She’s 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 chief director of World Aquatics, stated the governing physique would take 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 stated 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 referred to as Yu “great.” He additionally stated officers needed to be “careful” concerning the age situation.

Friday’s session might be lacking the 2 massive stars of the meet to this point — France’s Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh of Canada. Both haven’t any remaining swims.

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

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

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

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