FUKUOKA, Japan, July 24 (Xinhua) — China’s 17-year-old Yu Yiting gained the bronze medal of the ladies’s 200 meters particular person medley (IM) on the World Aquatics Championships right here on Monday.
Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh, bronze and silver medalist respectively on the Tokyo Olympic Games, gave the United States a 1-2 end.
Douglass claimed her first world title in a time of two minutes 7.17 seconds, whereas defending champion Walsh completed second in 2:07.97.
Yu, who certified because the second-placed finisher within the semifinals, clocked 2:08.74 to earn China the third medal on the evening, following Qin Haiyang’s victory within the males’s 100m breaststroke and Zhang Yufei’s success within the ladies’s 100m butterfly.
It was Yu’s first look within the closing in world championships. She was stopped within the semifinals in Gwangju, South Korea, in 2019 on the age of 13.
Her teammate Ye Shiwen, who rose to stardom by putting a person medley golden double on the London Olympics, completed eighth in 2:14.27.