Tang Yi
Tang Yi (唐奕; * January 8, 1993 in Shanghai) is a Chinese swimmer and is one of the most promising young talents of the international swimming sport.
Career
Her first appearance on the international stage they had. At the Youth World Championships in August 2006 in Rio de Janeiro About 50 and 100 meters freestyle she missed the bronze medals possible on almost a fifth and a fourth place. Only by the French Ophélie - Cyrielle Etienne defeated but it secured over 200 meters freestyle in second place. In December the same year she took at the age of 13 years participated in the Asian Games in Doha and swam with the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay to victory.
For the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, the Chinese Association of Tang referred not to the squad. You missed as a consequence the qualification standard for the individual competitions in the 2008 Summer Olympics, which meant that they only in the relay 4 x 100 meter freestyle took before a home crowd in Beijing. Although the quartet was able to break into 03:35,64 min of the 14 -year-old Asian record, but had to get the Matildas beaten to bronze in a duel. At the World Cup the following year in Rome Tang was again exclusively on the short distance scale in use; the team reached the finals despite an improvement in the Asia cup record to another hundredth of a second, only the sixth. Four months later won the individual competition and decide in this way the season at least conciliatory at the Asian Championships three silver medals.
To the most successful year of their sporting careers should evolve in 2010. Right at the beginning of Tang presented at the Japan Open with 01:54,76 min a new Chinese national record over 200 meters freestyle at the European Short Course on. In the subsequent national championships they benefited from the absence of the favored Pang Jiaying, and the title was able to secure the 100 and 200 meter freestyle. Your previous career highlight, she experienced in August at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, as they swam to six gold medals and was the outstanding athlete of the competitions. This was followed in November four title wins and two silver medals at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, before Tang traveled with the Chinese team to the World Short Course Championships in Dubai. There she could with all three seasons in which they took, achieve podium finishes, thus securing their first two world titles. In particular, the final of the 4 × 100 meter medley should be emphasized, because Tang succeeded as the final swimmer to lie in a US-based American Jessica Hardy unlock to overtake this and the first to strike. About twice the distance in freestyle relay to put the Chinese Tang on even a new world record.
In 2011, Tang's success continued series, each with a bronze and silver medal at the discharged in her hometown World Cup continued before she could decide two races of the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen for themselves (or their season ). You then managed to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. On their first day, they led as the starting swimmer the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay finals. There was enough despite a strong time of Tang, but only for fourth. With Vorlaufbestzeit she moved a few days later the semi-finals in the 100 meters freestyle. She reached the finals and won there before, for example, Jessica Hardy, Missy Franklin and the reigning World Champion over this distance, Jeanette Ottesen, the bronze medal. On the last day of the London swimming competitions they played with their rural women into the finals 4 × 100 meter medley; the squadron reached the fifth place.
Disappointing in every way, however, was Tang's performance at the World Championships 2013 in Barcelona: More than 100 meter freestyle, it was enough for them merely to seventh place in the final, about half the distance she was not even on the 26th place in the preliminaries out. As a final swimmer of the 4 × 100 meter medley relay they struck in fourth.