Yang Yu

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang.

Medal record
Women's Swimming
Competitor for China
Olympic Games
Silver	2004 Athens^[1]	4 × 200 m freestyle relay
World Championships
Gold	2003 Barcelona	4 x 100 m medley relay
Silver	2001 Fukuoka	200 m freestyle
Bronze	2003 Barcelona	200 m freestyle
Bronze	2003 Barcelona	4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Bronze	2005 Montreal^[2]	200 m freestyle
Bronze	2005 Montreal	4 x 200 m freestyle relay
World Championships - Short Course
Gold	2000 Athens^[3]	200 m freestyle
Bronze	2000 Athens	4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Silver	2002 Moscow^[4]	200 m freestyle
Silver	2002 Moscow	200 m butterfly
Bronze	2002 Moscow	4 x 100 m freestyle relay
Gold	2002 Moscow	4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Bronze	2006 Shanghai	200 m butterfly
Gold	2006 Shanghai	200 m freestyle
Silver	2006 Shanghai	4 x 200 m freestyle relay

Yang Yu (simplified Chinese: 杨雨, born February 6, 1985 in Hangzhou) is a female Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China. She became part of the Chinese national swimming team in 1999.

1 Career
2 References and links

[edit] Career

[edit] International debut and the 2000 Olympics

Yang competed in her big international meet in the 2000 World Short Course Championships in Athens, where she won the 200 freestyle in 1:56.06. Later she qualified to swim at the Sydney Olympics, where she placed 17th in the 200 free (2:01.34).

[edit] 2001, 02 and 03 World Aquatic Championships

Yang competed at the 2001 Fukuoka World Championships and won the silver medal in the Women's 200 m Freestyle event (1:58.78), after Australia's Giann Rooney (1:58.57). At the 2001 Chinese National Games, she placed 2nd in both the 100 (54.94) and 200 free (1:58.71).

In the 2002 World Short Course Championships in Moscow, Yang took gold in the 4x200 free relay (7:46.30, world record), silver in the 200 free (1:55.34, Asian record) and 200 fly (2:06.10),and bronze in the 4x100 free relay (3:36.18). She won gold in the 200 free (1:58.43), 4x100 free relay (3:40.95), 4x200 free relay (7:58.46) and silver in the 100 free (55.51) at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan.

Yang started the 2003 season strongly by posting a world-leading 1:57.70 at the Chinese Nationals in April 2003, but at the 2003 World Championships (Barcelona), she only managed 3rd in this event (1:58.54). She also took bronze in the 4x200 free relay (7:58.53. Yang split 1:57.24, the fastest in history), and gold in the 4x100 medlay relay (3:59.89, Asian record and 2nd fastest time in history. Yang swam the freestyle leg and split 53.71).

[edit] 2004 Olympic Games

Yang competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. There she was a member of China's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay team, which won the silver medal in 7:55.97 (Asian record), beaten by the USA team who won in the world record of 7:53.42. Yang was also part of China's 4 x 100 m women's freestyle relay team. China reached the final in this event but finished a disappointing 8th.

Yang competed as an individual in the 200m freestyle event, and qualified for the semi-final, but did not progress to the final.

[edit] 2005-06

Yang did compete at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, winning the bronze medal in the 200m freestyle event. She posted strong times at the 2005 Chinese National Games, winning the 200 free in 1:57.86, 2nd fastest in the world globally. At the 2006 World Short Course Championships in Shanghai, she took gold in the 200 free (1:54.94). She failed to defend her 200 free title at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, beaten by teammate Pang Jiaying (1:59.26 to 2:00.73).

[edit] 2007 World Aquatic Championships

Yang Yu took part in the 2007 World Aquatic Championships in Melbourne. She did not progress beyond the heat stage in the Women's 200 m freestyle, finishing 18th. She was also a member of the China's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay (which barely missed the final, placing 9th in the heats) and the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay which ranked seventh.

[edit] Notable Achievements

On January 18, 2004 she broke Susie O'Neill's world record in the women's 200m butterfly (short course) during a World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany, clocking a time of 2:04.04.^[5]

[edit] References and links

^ 2004 Olympic Games swimming results. Retrieved on 2007-07-22.
^ Montreal 2005 Results. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
^ 5th FINA World Swimming Championships. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
^ 2002 World Championships - Short Course Swim Rankings results. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
^ Women's 200 m butterfly world records. FINA. Retrieved on 2007-01-14.

Records
Preceded by Susie O'Neill	Women's 200 metre butterfly world record holder (short course) January 18, 2004 – December 13, 2007	Succeeded by Otylia Jędrzejczak