Yu Yiting, a 15-year-old youngster at the 2021 World Short Course Swimming Championships, set a new world youth record in the women's 200m medley final with 2:04.48 and won the first silver medal of the Chinese swimming team, which is also Yu Yiting's first time on the podium of an international competition. Ye Shiwen once won two gold medals in the 200 mix and 400 mix at the 2012 London Olympic Games, and then the state fell sharply, with the rise of Yu Yiting, medley is also a successor after Ye Shiwen, and it is expected to compete for medals at the World Championships and the Olympic Games in the Olympic cycle in Paris.
Yiting Yu came to the final as 2nd in the 200m medley preliminaries, and her main opponents included Douglas in the United States and Pickream in Canada. After Yu Yiting, who was in the 5th lane of the final, followed by Douglas, finished the butterfly swimming in the 2nd place, and the top 3 positions did not change when they came to the backstroke competition, followed by Douglas of the United States, Yu Yiting of China and Picklem of Canada. However, after the third swimming breaststroke competition, Douglas in the United States gradually could not stand it, and was surpassed by Canada's Pickrem and China's Yu Yiting, but Yu Yiting's position still did not change, or ranked 2nd. In the freestyle stage of the final sprint, Yu Yiting once surpassed Canada's Pickrem, but was quickly overtaken by the opponent, and finally finished second in 2 minutes 04.48 seconds, breaking the world youth record. Canada's Pickrem and America's Douglas finished first and third respectively.
Yu Yiting is only 15 years old this year, participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, and dared to fight in the final of the women's 200-meter medley, and achieved a good result of 5th place, she achieved 11th place in the 400-meter medley, failed to break into the final of the Tokyo Olympic Games, but experienced an Olympic Games at the age of 15, if she continues to maintain such results, the Paris Olympics are expected to win a medal. Ye Shiwen in Yu Yiting's age group, is already a world-renowned women's medley master, she won the women's 200 meters and 400 meters medley championships at the age of 16 at the London Olympic Games, freestyle sprint ability even surpassed male athletes, but with the rapid development of the body, the results also plummeted, I hope Yu Yiting can learn from some of the experience and lessons of her sister.
In other events, Yan Zibei competed in the semi-final of the men's 50m breaststroke, won the second place in the second group with 26.16 seconds, and ranked 6th overall to advance to the final, the first place in the project was Belarus's Smanovich, with a time of 25.55 seconds; in the men's 400m medley, Japan's Seto Ohno won the championship in 3 minutes 56 seconds 26 seconds, and he also won the championship in the previous 200m medley. Polodin of the Russian Swimming Association finished second with a difference of 0.21 seconds; in the women's 50m backstroke final, Canada's Olympic champion McNeil was still unabated from butterfly to the subskine, winning the championship and breaking the world record in 25.27 seconds.