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Zhang Yufei

(張雨霏)

Zhang Yufei

張雨霏

The latest news on Zhang Yufei, Chinese professional swimmer, including competition news and updates.

last updated:

4 December, 2024

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’.

2 Nov 2024 - 7:38PM

Swimming

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

8 Oct 2024 - 8:21PM

Trending in China

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

3 Sep 2024 - 4:23PM

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.

2 Aug 2024 - 10:57AM

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.

2 Aug 2024 - 7:16PMvideocam

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.

2 Aug 2024 - 6:47AM

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.

30 Jul 2024 - 2:27AM

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.

29 Jul 2024 - 6:00PM

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.

27 Jul 2024 - 11:56PM

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’.

24 Jul 2024 - 7:35PM

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.

23 Jul 2024 - 10:39PM

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.

20 Jul 2024 - 10:00PM

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.

14 Jul 2024 - 5:56AM

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.

20 Jul 2024 - 7:59PM

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.

28 Apr 2024 - 5:32PM

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.

23 Oct 2023 - 1:11PM

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.

21 Oct 2023 - 1:40PM

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.

16 Oct 2023 - 3:24PM

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.

9 Oct 2023 - 6:13PM

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’.

8 Oct 2023 - 11:08PM

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.

28 Sep 2023 - 11:12PM

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.

28 Sep 2023 - 2:01PM

Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey competes in the heats of the women’s 50m freestyle at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Photo: AFP

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.

27 Sep 2023 - 12:00AM

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.

26 Sep 2023 - 9:58AM

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.

22 Sep 2023 - 9:00AM

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.

8 Aug 2023 - 8:57PM

The main site of the Chengdu Universiade, which closed on Tuesday evening. Photo: Xinhua

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.

8 Aug 2023 - 8:11AM

Fencing

Ko beats Covid to bring Hong Kong its first University Games badminton medal

After being laid low with the virus for a week, he returns to court to take bronze – and there is a chance of a second fencing gold for Cheung Ka-long on Monday.

6 Aug 2023 - 11:43PM

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