Chinese 12-year-old swimming sensation Yu Zidi could be the brightest young star at this year’s world championships after producing a string of eye-popping performances this week.<\/p>\n
Yu, in her striking “doggy” swim cap, rounded off a sensational China national swimming championships in Shenzhen by winning the women’s 400m individual medley by almost two seconds on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Roared on by packed crowds in the southern city which borders Hong Kong, Yu crushed a quality field in a lifetime best 4min 35.53sec.<\/p>\n
Yu’s time was comfortably inside the world qualifying standard of 4:43.06, the fifth fastest time of the year and would have been good enough for fourth place at the Paris Olympics, AFP reported.<\/p>\n
Second was Chang Mohan, who touched more than a body length adrift in 4:37.33, followed by Li Bingjie in 4:38.66.<\/p>\n
It came just a few days after the 12-year-old’s 200m butterfly gold in a scarcely believable 2:06.83, also fifth fastest in the world this year and another time that would have garnered a fourth place in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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