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Zhang Yufei

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Zhang Yufei
Zhang Yufei
張雨霏
The latest news on Zhang Yufei, Chinese professional swimmer, including competition news and updates.
Yu Zidi is all smiles after her record-breaking swim in Shenzhen. Photo: Xinhua
2025 National Games

Swimmer Yu, 13, breaks record set before she was born to win National Games gold

Yu becomes Asia’s fastest ever in 200m individual medley, while Qin Haiyang and Zhang Yufei also swim to gold in Shenzhen.

Swimming

China teen Zhang stakes National Games claim with junior world record

Swimming

Qin wins China’s first swimming gold of world championships, Yu Zidi fourth

Kai Tak Sports Park

Promising Chinese player defers PhD programme to give pickleball career a shot

Long Yufei turns down two US universities to join training programme offering a two-year professional contract.

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Long Yufei has opted to defer her doctoral studies to play pickleball. Photo: Handout
Swimming

Haughey comeback gathers pace with second Mare Nostrum Swim Tour gold in Monaco

The Hongkonger takes victory in 100 metres freestyle, with two more legs of the tour to come this week.

Swimming

Pan Zhanle set to race Sun Yang as China’s Olympic swim stars head to Shenzhen

Paris champion Pan could meet Sun at national championships, with Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang also taking part.

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Swimming

Olympic swim champ Zhang: just looking at pool made me feel sick, now ‘I’m back’

Zhang Yufei took five-month break to decide if she wanted to continue in the sport, but is now eyeing a place at 2028 LA Olympics.

Zhang Yufei won five bronze and one silver at last summer’s Paris Olympics. Photo: Reuters
Swimming

Chinese swim star Pan suggests combined relay team including Hong Kong’s finest

Swimmers from mainland and city have formed friendly bonds over the 3 legs of the World Cup – including Zhang Yufei and her ‘good friend’.

Swimming

Haughey, Pan Zhanle, Zhang Yufei confirmed for star-studded swimming World Cup

Qin Haiyang, Kaylee McKeown, Leon Marchand also set to swim in three-part event in Shanghai, Incheon and Singapore.

Trending in China

Profile | China history-making swim champion Zhang Yufei misses hometown soup

The Post profiles record-breaking swimmer Zhang Yufei, the most decorated Olympian in China’s history.

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The Post profiles China’s champion Olympic swimmer Zhang Yufei whose exploits in the pool have earned her the title “Butterfly Queen”. Photo: SCMP composite/Xinhua/Weibo/Sohu
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Profile | Who is Zhang Yufei, Chinese swimmer battling rivals, critics and fever in Paris?

The butterfly queen is happy to do her talking both in and out of the pool as she continues to accumulate medals.

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Zhang Yufei on the podium for the third time at the Paris Games on Thursday. Photo: Xinhua
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

While you were sleeping: 5 things to know after drama for Zhang, Fan at Olympics

Fan Zhendong risked exiting men’s table tennis and leaving China without a medal, while Zhang Yufei faced Summer McIntosh in 200m butterfly.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Paris Olympics day 6: Zhang takes bronze, sixth gold for Biles – as it happened

Canada’s Summer McIntosh takes gold, with American Regan Smith second and China’s Zhang Yufei third.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Diving queen blames ‘7 times a day’ drug tests for Chinese swimmers’ poor showing

Gao Min sparks another wave of social media talk after comments on rigorous drug testing.

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Qin Haiyang (left), who finished seventh in the 100m breaststroke final, accused doping testers of being part of a “European and American” plot to unsettle China’s team. Photo: Xinhua
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Swimmer Zhang’s Paris Games bronze sparks sympathy, fury on Chinese social media

Zhang, dubbed China’s ‘butterfly queen’, won the silver in this event three years ago and was seen weeping after the award ceremony.

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China’s Yufei Zhang (right) won the bronze medal as United States pair Torri Huske (centre) won the gold and Gretchen Walsh the silver in the women’s 100m butterfly. Photo: Reuters
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

China’s teen shooting sensations grab Paris gold, vow ‘this is just the beginning’

Sheng Lihao and Huang Yuting win first gold of the Games, breezing past South Korean rivals in mixed team 10m air rifle.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Chinese swimmers drug tested almost 4 times more than US rivals, officials admit

The update was published in a written report by the organisation, while Chinese internet users expressed anger over perceived ‘unfair treatment’.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

US-China battle for Olympic gold medal dominance: pools key Paris battlegrounds

The superpowers have finished in the top two spots in the medal table in four of the past five Olympics, but it was only in Beijing in 2008 where the hosts came out ahead.

United States and China are looking to do battle for Olympic superiority once again as the Games get under way in Paris. Photo: AP
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Chinese swimmers ‘given 200 drug tests in 10 days’ after arrival for Olympics

The swimmers – some of them implicated in the 2021 TMZ allegations – were tested five to seven times each, team nutritionist says on Weibo.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

China’s Paris Olympics team includes 11-year-old and twice as many women as men

42 of China’s team have won Olympic gold before, with the country set to challenge the US at the top of the medal table.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

China take 11 of 23 swimmers who tested positive for TMZ to Paris Olympic Games

Yang Junxuan is among those included and will compete against Siobhan Haughey in the 100m freestyle, as well as Zhang Yufei, who won gold in the 200m butterfly in Tokyo.

China’s Pan Zhanle, the 100m freestyle world record holder, is looking for gold in Paris. Photo: Xinhua
Swimming

Records tumble as China’s swimmers hit Olympic pace at national championships

Asian gold medallist Tang Qianting sets regional best twice in women’s 100m breaststroke event, while Pan Zhanle clocks third sub-47 second time in 100m freestyle.

Asian Games gold medallist Tang Qianting set a new mark in the 100m breaststroke. Photo: Reuters
Swimming

Haughey completes 100m free hat-trick at World Cup, looks forward to time off

Siobhan Haughey sweeps 100m and 200m free finals, to win a total of six World Cup golds, while Kaylee McKeown, who owns all three backstroke world records, makes a full sweep of back events for three triple crowns.

Swimming

Haughey sets new 50m mark at World Cup meet, McKeown makes backstroke history

Siobhan Haughey lowers personal best time while claiming silver in sprint race won by Sarah Sjostrom at World Cup stop in Budapest. Australia’s Kaylee McKeown becomes first woman to hold every backstroke world record.

Swimming

Haughey destroys elite field in Swimming World Cup after just 13 minutes’ rest

After finishing a close second in the 50m breaststroke final, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey returns to the pool moments later to dominate her preferred 100m freestyle.

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Siobhan Haughey came away with two victories in the weekend’s World Cup event in Athens. Photo: Twitter/@WorldAquatics
Swimming

Haughey follows Games golds with 2 World Cup records, calls it ‘great training’

Days after breaking the Asian 100m freestyle record in Hangzhou, Siobhan Haughey improves it again in Berlin, beating several of her rivals and inching closer to Sarah Sjostrom’s world best.

Siobhan Haughey was in record-breaking form again in Berlin. Photo: EPA-EFE
Asian Games 2023

Curtain falls on triumphant Asian Games fortnight for China – and Hong Kong

Chinese Premier Li Qiang watches on as Olympic Council of Asia chief Raja Randhir Singh hails Hangzhou event an ‘unprecedented success’.

Asian Games 2023

Haughey claims her fifth medal of Asian Games with 50m freestyle silver

Hong Kong swimmer Haughey is second behind Chinese favourite Zhang Yufei, and helps 4x200m relay team to a new city record.

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