12-year-old Yu Zidi scared the American media

On the evening of the 21st, in the women's 200m butterfly final of the 2025 National Swimming Championships, 12-year-old "Children's Sister" Yu Zidi won the championship with a time of 2 minutes 06 seconds 83, creating his personal best. Yu Zidi is a superstar emerging in the Chinese swimming world in recent years. He has achieved many breakthrough results in this championship at the age of 12, which has attracted great attention from the domestic and international swimming scenes.

Yu Zidi is in the game.

On May 18, Yu Zidi won the runner-up in the Women's 200m individual medley in the National Championship with a personal best score of 2 minutes 10.63, breaking through the A-level mark of the World Championships. Many foreign media have paid great attention, and even the New York Times has written an article introducing this Chinese swimming genius. "SWIMSWAM" authoritative American swimming media pointed out: "Yu Zidi swam 2 minutes 10 seconds 63 people's best in the women's 200-meter individual medley in the National Championships. She has become the fastest 12-year-old girl in history, including boys. Because the record of American women's teenagers is 2 minutes 18 seconds 69, and the record of American men's teenagers is 2 minutes 13 seconds 59."

On May 20, in the women's 200-meter butterfly semi-finals, Yu Zidi swam 2 minutes 08 seconds 52 in the personal best, breaking the World Championships A-grade again.

Yu Zidi is on the podium.

On May 21, in the women's 200m butterfly final, Yu Zidi won the championship with a time of 2 minutes 06 seconds 83, creating his personal best.

This time, all foreign media were completely convinced. International mainstream media such as SwimSwam have described their performance as "subverting cognition" and "exploding", while American swimming legend Melvin Stewart called his achievements "incredible".

Yu Zidi, born on October 16, 2012, first came into contact with swimming when she was 6 years old. After four years of systematic training, it will reach the national first-level athlete level. At 10 years and 5 months old, she entered the top ten national adult group for the first time (women's 400 mixed-raised) and in 2024, she was under 12 years old and won the 200 butterfly and 200 mixed-raised championships of the National Summer Championship.

At present, Yu Zidi has been qualified for the 200 mixed and 200 butterfly competition in the 2025 Singapore World Championships, and is expected to reach the record of the youngest World Championship medal player in the Chinese swimming team.

The Chinese Swimming Association said that its training progress was "4 years earlier than expected", and technical experts believe that it may dominate the women's middle-distance swimming pool program after its physical development is mature. Some people in the circle predicted that in women with 200 mixed with 200 butterflies, the child may be a combination of the strongest version of Ye Shiwen and the strongest version of Zhang Yufei in the future!

This is the rhythm of the back wave killing the front wave. Some netizens have already started to shout to Zhang Yufei, butterfly queen: Hold on, the little girl is here!

Proofreading Pan Zheng