ZHANG Yufei

People's Republic of China

Date of Birth: 19 Apr 1998

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Youth Olympian

Place of birth: XUZHOU

Birth Country:

People's Republic of China

Place of residence : PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 50m Freestyle
	Women's 100m Butterfly	2
	Women's 200m Butterfly	1
	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay CHN China	1
	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay CHN China	4
	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay CHN China	2

Records

Record	Event	Mark	Date	Location
OR	Women's 200m Butterfly Final	2:03.86	29 July, 2021	Tokyo (JPN)

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly - Heat 5	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Butterfly - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Butterfly Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Butterfly Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Freestyle - Heat 9	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Freestyle Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	200Fly
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	6th (2:07.40)

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Fly	200Fly	4x100Free W	4x100Free X	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2014	Nanjing, CHN	2nd (57.95)	2nd (2:08.22)	1st (3:41.19)	1st	1st (4:03.58)	1st (3:49.33)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Fly	100Fly	200Fly	4x100Free W	4x200Free	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	SF (26.18)	SF (57.93)	H (2:14.20)	-	-	5th (3:57.11)	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (26.40)	8th (57.51)	5th (2:07.06)	6th (3:36.49)	-	6th (3:57.69)	3rd (3:41.25)
2015	Kazan, RUS	-	-	3rd (2:06.51)	-	3rd (7:49.10)	-	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	100Fly	200Fly	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2018	Indonesia	2nd (57.40)	1st (2:06.61)	7th (DSQ)	1st (3:40.45)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	200Fly
2016	Tokyo, JPN	2nd (2:08.50)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	200Fly
2019	1 x 1st

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019	200m Butterfly	Guangzhou, CHN	2:07.36

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Fly	100Fly	200Fly	4x50Medley X	4x100Medley
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	H (26.14)	SF (56.77)	7th (2:05.86)	H (1:40.10)	2nd (3:48.80)
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	-	-	3rd (2:05.10)	4th (1:38.93)	5th (3:51.01)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Fei-fei [from teammates], Ni-ni [from family members]. (sports.sina.com.cn, 27 Aug 2018)

Cross-stitching, watching television. (kuaibao.qq.com, 21 Oct 2019; sohu.com, 16 Aug 2017)

Occupation:

Nanjing Sport Institute, People's Republic of China

Languages spoken:

Jiangsu Province [People's Republic of China]

He Xinzhong [national], CHN; Cui Dengrong, CHN

She suffered a calf injury after falling during training in 2017. She required stitches and returned to training two weeks later. (mnw.cn, 13 Jul 2017)

She first tried the sport at age three, and began training at age five in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. (sports.jschina.com.cn, 24 Aug 2017; xinhuanet.com, 21 Oct 2015)

Her parents were swimming coaches, and they would let her play in the pool when they had training. (xinhuanet.com, 21 Oct 2015)

To win three gold medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and to compete at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. (sports.sina.com.cn, 01 Jan 2021; olympic.cn, 05 Jun 2020; sohu.com, 18 Sep 2019)

Chinese swimmer Liu Zige, Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu. (sohu.com, 16 Aug 2017; sports2.jschina.com.cn, 09 Aug 2016)

In 2017 she was named an Elite Athlete of International Class by the General Administration of Sport of China. (skating.sport.org.cn, 07 Jun 2017; sport.gov.cn, 31 May 2017)

General Interest

General
DIAGNOSIS
She was born with a curvature of the spine, but the issue was not diagnosed until 2015. "My main discipline is butterfly, which requires the balance of the entire body. I found that something was not right and talked to a doctor. The result of the diagnosis was a minor curvature of the spine. Fortunately, it has been improved through training and medical assistance." (sports.sina.com.cn, 27 Aug 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
OR:: Olympic Record

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