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12-Year-Old Wang Jiayin Clocks 2:10.79 200 Back

2019 Chinese Youth Games

  • August 10th – August 17th
  • LCM
  • Results

The 2019 Chinese Youth Games took place last week, with competitors across the age categories of 11-16 and 17-19 taking to the pool in their home nation.

As with many domestic Chinese meets, the results are not readily available. As such, we’ve pieced together notable performances from over the course of the 8-day affair.

  • 12-year-old Wang Jiayin took her age category’s 200m backstroke victory in a time of 2:10.79. That time would make her the fastest American female ever in the 11-12 category by 5 seconds.
  • 15-year-old Wan Letian won the women’s 50m back in a time of 27.96.
  • Sun Jiajun, the man who took the 100m breaststroke Youth Olympic Games gold in Buenos Aires last year, notched his first-ever sub-minute result at these games. Sun clocked 59.92 to take the 100m breast gold here.
  • Yang Yifan swept the women’s backstroke events in the 17-19 age range, reaping times of 28.84 in the 50m, 1:01.32 in the 100m and 2:10.25 in the 200m.
  • The women’s 100m free saw Yang Junxuan get it done for the 17-19-year-olds in 54.22.
  • Zhang Yifan won the women’s 200m fly in 2:08.30.

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hambone
5 years ago

Nice

Will
5 years ago

Result link for the meet: http://results.zgqyhsx.com.cn/mindex.htm. You will need to know Chinese to find the swimming results.

Bobo Gigi
5 years ago

We are used to crazy fast times from very young Chinese girls. And then very few confirm. Most of them start to stagnate or decline at 16 or 17.

Sccoach
5 years ago

I’m a male that went a 2:14 when I was 20 and thought I was awesome

NoFlyKick
5 years ago

Surely someone has video of that?

Eouai
5 years ago

Dear lord that’s a lot of cyncism, pessimism, and negativity in these comments after a mind-blowing age group swim. I know this is a US fan site, but cmon – even if this girl never gets another PB in her life, holy crap she still just had an unbelievable swim!

Would love to see video if one ever surfaces.

TAA
Reply to  Eouai
5 years ago

we are only in the warmup pool

Neil
Reply to  Eouai
5 years ago

Eouai, my thoughts exactly. I think if this was an American girl the praise and euphoria would be off the scale. Not immediately questioning a sport system and child abuse based on very little fact. Or maybe I’m just a cynic.

Taa
Reply to  Neil
5 years ago

https://staging.swimswam.com/leah-hayes-creeps-closer-to-missy-franklins-13-14-200-im-nag-record/

“euphoria off the scale” lol. The attached article highlighting an amazing swim by a 13 year old got only a comment from some french guy named Bobo Gigi.

Max C
Reply to  Taa
5 years ago

To be fair, that one was “almost NAG” (not that that’s not incredible for a 13 yo), and this one was 5 seconds under USA’s NAG.

brian
5 years ago

huh

Swimmer
5 years ago
JAK
Reply to  Swimmer
5 years ago

How has this not set the SwimSwam all-time record for upvotes

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