[Sports News]The third day of the 2023 FINA Youth Swimming Championships was held in Netanya, Israel on Wednesday (6th). The 17-year-old Hong Kong team member Zhang Xinyue, who already holds the ticket for the Paris Olympics, competed in the strong women’s 200 meters Backstroke ranked fourth with 2 minutes 12 seconds 32, and missed the medal.
This time the Hong Kong team sent a total of 18 swimmers (12 women and 6 men) to participate. Zhang Xinyue, who ranked 6th in the 200 back at the World Youth Swimming Championships last year, has swam 2:10.35 in April this year and reached the Paris Olympic A mark. Just turned 17 last month, she swam 2:13.28 in the 200m backstroke preliminaries of the World Youth Championships and advanced to the finals in fourth place. She also finished fourth in the final with 2:12.32. The champion was won by 16-year-old American swimmer Teagan O’DELL with a time of 2:08.09.
In addition, the Hong Kong team also had Yang Kaiqing who swam 27.23 seconds in the women’s 50m butterfly preliminaries and ranked 11th to advance to the semi-finals. Unfortunately, she also ranked 11th in the semi-finals with 27.16 seconds and missed the final. Wenhui Qiao broke the youth record held by Jiang Yiyi for many years in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:10.61. She ranked 19th and failed to enter the semi-finals.
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2023-09-07 04:42:42
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