Ye Shiwen

Ye Shiwen
Personal information
Surname:	Ye Shiwen
Nation:	China
Swimming style (s) :	Locations
Birthday:	March 1, 1996
Place of birth:	Hangzhou
Size:	1.72 m
Weight:	64 kg
Medal table

Ye Shiwen ( Chinese  葉詩文  /  叶 诗文 , Pinyin Yè Shīwén ; born March 1, 1996 in Hangzhou , Zhejiang ) is a Chinese swimmer . She is 2012 Olympic champion in the 200 and 400 meter medley.

Career

At the Swimming World Cup 2010 she first attracted international attention - she won gold medals in the 100 m freestyle, 200 m medley and 400 m medley in Beijing . At the short course world championships in Dubai in December she won the silver medal in the 200 m medley and 400 m medley.

At the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China, Ye Shiwen was world champion in the 200 m medley in a time of 2: 08.90 min on July 25th and she finished 5th in the 400 m medley.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she won the 400 m individual medley in a world record time of 4: 28.43 minutes. On the last track, she was 28.93 seconds faster than Olympic champion Ryan Lochte , who needed 29.10 seconds for it on the same day. This extraordinary achievement caused astonishment. Four doping tests were carried out, all of which were negative.

In Barcelona at the 2013 Swimming World Championships , she missed a medal in the 200 m individual medal and reached 4th place.

At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea , she won both races over 200 m medley and 400 m medley, each with a new record for the Asian Games. With the team she won the gold medal in the 400 m freestyle race.

In 2015 she reached the 8th place in the race over 200 m medley at the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan , Russia.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, she again reached 8th place in the race over 200 m medley.

Records

World records (1)
400 m layers	04: 28.43 min	July 28, 2012	London
(As of July 29, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marco Plein: Olympia 2012: Ye Shiwen swims world record: 16-year-old Chinese duped the entire swimming world and won gold. In: Focus Online . July 30, 2012, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Jens Weinreich: Records in swimming: Guessing the fable record. In: fr-online.de. July 30, 2012, accessed December 18, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Stronger than men? The limits of the female body. In: DiePresse.com. August 4, 2012, accessed January 17, 2018 . 

Web links

• Portrait on www.london2012.com

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ye is the family name here, Shiwen is the first name.