Overview

• Yu secured a bronze medal in the women’s 4×200 m freestyle relay in Singapore, becoming the youngest swimmer ever to stand on a World Championships podium.
• She finished fourth in both the 200 m individual medley and 200 m butterfly finals, missing the podium by mere hundredths of a second.
• World Aquatics currently allows swimmers under 14 to compete if they achieve qualifying times, as Yu’s May performance at Chinese nationals demonstrated.
• Brent Nowicki, World Aquatics’ director general, said the federation will reevaluate its minimum-age criteria in response to her performances.
• Coaches and sports medicine experts have raised concerns about the physical and psychological demands placed on such young athletes at top-level events.