Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, January 19, 2004
China's Yang Yu breaks world shortcourse record in 200m butterfly
China's Yang Yu set a new world short course record of 2 minutes and 4.04 seconds in the women's 200 meters butterfly in Berlin on Jan. 18 during the fifth leg of the short course swimming World Cup.
China's Yang Yu set a new world short course record of 2 minutes and 4.04 seconds in the women's 200 meters butterfly in Berlin on Jan. 18 during the fifth leg of the short course swimming World Cup.
The 18-year-old beat the record previously held by Australian Susan O'Neill, who set a time of 2:04.16 on January 18, 2000 in Sydney.
On Jan. 17, the first day of the Berlin leg of FINA World Cup, record maker Yang Yu won the gold medal in women's 200m individual medley in 2 minutes and 10.01 seconds, followed by her fellow Pang Jiaying in 2 minutes and 11.85 seconds and Mima Jukic from Austria in 2 minutes and 14.21 seconds.
Gao Chang added another gold in women's 50m backstroke in 27.19 seconds on Jan. 17, 0.42 second faster than in Stockholm, Sweden where she picked the gold.