Home>>Sports
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.


PRINT DISCUSSION CHINESE SEND TO FRIEND


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.

By People's Daily Online/Xinhua


Questions?Comments? Click here
    Advanced






Chinese swimmers add 2 more golds in Stockholm

Chinese pick two golds on 1st day of FINA World Cup



 


Exploration rover "Spirit" lands safely on Mars ( 9 Messages)

Two major state banks to pilot joint-stock system ( 3 Messages)

China pondering its own "green card" system ( 16 Messages)

Roaring BMW: Was it "road rage" or an accident? ( 2 Messages)

Beijing's traffic no longer a headache by year 2008 ( 5 Messages)



Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved