Singapore- Chinese 12-year-old U Jidi has won a bronze medal at the Swim World Championship, a surprising achievement for a girl who will be a sixth or seventh grade student based on school system.
U won a medal by swimming in China’s 4×200 meter freestyle relay team’s prelims. She did not swim in the final on Thursday – China finished third behind winning Australia and the United States – but won a bronze medal as a team member.
She finished fourth in both 200 butterfly and 200 individual medals, winning a personal medal. He is still 400 m to swim.
Brent Noki, Executive Director of World Aquatics, said that the governing body would look into its age-limit rules. Seema is now 14, but athletes can reach the world if they cross a difficult time standard.
“I don’t think I would have this conversation, but now I think we have to go back and say it is appropriate to say?” He said in Singapore this week. “Is this really the right way to move forward and do we need to do other things? Keep other railings up? Do we allow it under certain conditions? I don’t know the answer.”
He called U “great”. He also said that the authorities had to be “careful” about the age issue.
Friday session must have been remembering two big meat stars: Leon Marchand of France and Summer McIntosh of Canada. Both have no final swimming.
Five finals were set for Friday. Some meditation will go to Chikunova, floating as a neutral athlete. She holds the world record in 200 breaststroke, where she has the top time to enter the finals. The top challenger is the American Kate Douglas.
South African Peter COTES is a favorite in men’s 200 backstroke. Yohan Nedoy-Browd of France and Hubert Kos of Hungary were the next fastest qualifiers.
Other final women have 100 free, men’s 200 breaststrokes and men’s 4×200 relay.
