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Zhang Yufei

(張雨霏)

Zhang Yufei
Zhang Yufei
張雨霏
The latest news on Zhang Yufei, Chinese professional swimmer, including competition news and updates.
Zhang Yufei won five bronze and one silver at last summer’s Paris Olympics. Photo: Reuters
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.

Swimming

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

Swimming

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

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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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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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Zhang Yufei will defend her 200m butterfly title at La Defense Arena later. Photo: Reuters
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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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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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.

Gold medalists Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao pose with their medals after winning the mixed team 10m air rifle event. Photo: EPA-EFE
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’.

Chinese swimmers have been tested more than any other athletes leading into the Paris Olympics. Photo: Reuters
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.

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.

Zhang Yufei, pictured with her 200 metres butterfly gold medal at the Tokyo Games, will swim again in Paris. Photo: AP
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.

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.

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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.

Kaylee McKeown won the women’s 50m backstroke in a record time at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2023 in Budapest. Photo: Xinhua
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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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.

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’.

Hong Kong’s delegation enters the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium during the closing ceremony of the Asian Games. Photo: Xinhua
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.

Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey steps on to the podium for a fifth time in Hangzhou. Photo: SF&OC
Asian Games 2023

Asian Games: Haughey and Zhang set for titanic tussle for 50m freestyle gold

China’s Zhang Yufei sets Asian Games record in morning 50m freestyle heats to put pressure on Siobhan Haughey’s bid for third gold.

Asian Games 2023

Asian Games: growing medal haul begs question, how many more can Hong Kong win?

Siobhan Haughey set an Asian record in the pool and the city’s athletes added seven more medals to the tally on Tuesday, including two gold.

Asian Games 2023

Swimmer Haughey smashes Hong Kong record en route to Asian Games bronze double

Siobhan Haughey breaks her own city record twice on way to first medal in Hangzhou, and still has enough in the tank to help team finish third in 4x100m freestyle relay final.

Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey celebrates her bronze medal in the women’s 50m breaststroke final at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou. Photo: AP
Asian Games 2023

Asian Games: swim star and teen skateboarder among 10 Chinese athletes to watch

Qin Haiyang is the dominant force in breaststroke having won every race at the World Championships, while 13-year-old skateboarder Cui Chenxi is the youngest member of the China squad.

Zheng Qinwen is one of China’s star tennis players heading to Hangzhou. Photo: USA Today Sports
Universities in Hong Kong

Hong Kong savour record medal haul as ceremony closes Chengdu’s University Games

Closing ceremony at Chengdu Outdoor Music Park features 600 performers and a theme of ‘dreams, lighting up the future’, after 12 medals, four of them gold, add up to Hong Kong’s best ever showing.

Hong Kong sports

Hong Kong’s Cheung bags second fencing gold at World University Games

Hong Kong beat hosts China in men’s foil team semi-finals, and France in final, on Monday as city’s historic medal count jumps to 12 in Chengdu.

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