Late at night on December 20, Beijing time, the 2021 Short Pool Swimming World Championships continued, and in the women's 200m individual medley final, Yu Yiting, a 16-year-old born in China in 2005, won a silver medal. Looking at the total results, although Yu Yiting broke the world youth record, she was still quite sorry, and only won the 4th gold medal for the Chinese swimming team at the World Championships with a difference of 0.19 seconds.
Today is the fifth matchday of the World Championships, the previous four competition days, the Chinese swimming team has performed well, has won 3 gold medals: Li Bingjie won two consecutive gold medals in the women's 800m freestyle and 400m freestyle finals, in addition, Zhang Yufei won the first gold for the Chinese swimming team in the women's 200m butterfly final.
In the preliminary stage of the women's 200m individual medley, Yu Yiting performed well, she ranked second in 2 minutes 06.48 seconds, and the first place in the preliminary was Douglas of the United States, who swam 2 minutes 04 seconds 24.
In the final, Yu Yiting started from the 5th lane, and the 4th lane was Douglas Douglas, the first and strongest winner of the preliminary round.
The departure stage, 0.61 seconds, Yu Yiting's departure time is the shortest! In the first 50 meters, Yu Yiting ranked second, and Douglas of the United States came in first.
In the breaststroke stage, Yu Yiting was once ranked first! In the final 50 meters, Yu Yiting, Douglas and Canada's Pickrem were on a side-by-side, and Pickrem was even better at the side of the technology, winning the championship in 2 minutes 04.29 seconds.
Yu Yiting only finished second with a difference of 0.19 seconds, but Yu Yiting's time of 2 minutes 04.48 seconds still set a world youth record! At the same time, this is also the first silver medal won by the Chinese team at this World Championship.
It is worth noting that Douglas, the top favorite american who won the championship, suffered a big upset and only won a bronze medal with a time of 2:04.68.