| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native name | 孔雅琪 | ||||||||||||||
| Born | January 24, 2008 Ningbo, Zhejiang, China | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Kong Yaqi (Chinese :孔雅琪; born 24 January 2008) is a Chinese swimmer. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 4 x 200 m freestyle relay.
Yaqi was born on 24 January 2008. [1] She grew up in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. [2] She started swimming at age four and then trained regularly in the following years, winning many area youth championships. [3] [4] She attended Shaocheng Primary School and then Meishan School for junior high school. [4] At the provincial championships in November 2022, Yaqi was the gold medalist in the women's 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle, competing in the 14-16 age bracket. [4]
She won a silver medal in the 4×200m freestyle relay at the 2023 National Swimming Championships, and later that year won both bronze as an individual at the National Student Games in the 100 metres freestyle and gold as part of the Ningbo 4×200m freestyle relay team. [4] At the 2024 National Spring Swimming Championships, held in March 2024, she won gold in the 200m freestyle and silver in the 100m freestyle and 400m freestyle. [5] [6] The following month, she competed at the National Swimming Championships and placed fifth in the 200m freestyle, also winning silver in the 4×200m freestyle relay. [5] [6]
Yaqi was selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 4×200m freestyle relay event. [5] [6] At age 16, she was the youngest 2024 Olympic swimmer from her province. [3] She competed in the preliminary round of the Olympics and helped the Chinese relay team win the bronze medal. [2] [7]
Zhuang Yong is a retired freestyle swimmer from China, whose best performance was winning the gold medal in the 100 m freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. It was China's first gold medal in swimming. Four years earlier in Seoul she won China's first ever Olympic medal in swimming, ending up second in the final of the Women's 100 m Freestyle, behind East Germany's Kristin Otto.
Yang Yu is an Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China. She became part of the Chinese national swimming team in 1999, and competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Jessica Tatiana Long is a Russian-born American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. She has held many world records and competed at six Paralympic Games, winning 30 medals. She has won over 50 world championship medals.
Pang Jiaying is a female Chinese freestyle swimmer who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Pang is one of the best Chinese women in middle and long-distance freestyle swimming.
Kenneth King-him To was a Hong Kong Australian swimmer who practised individual medley, freestyle, butterfly and breaststroke. He won 6 medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, was the male overall winner of the 2012 FINA Swimming World Cup and was a World Championships silver medallist. He was the holder of 16 Hong Kong national swimming records.
Liu Weijia is a Chinese former freestyle and medley swimmer who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Wang Shun is a Chinese competitive swimmer. A versatile medley swimmer, he became the first Asian male swimmer to win a gold medal at the men's 200m individual medley at the Olympic Games when he came in first at the 2020 Summer Olympics men's 200 metre individual medley. He is also the first swimmer from China to win a gold medal in an Olympic men's medley swimming event. He had earlier won a bronze medal in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Xu Jiayu is a Chinese competitive swimmer who specializes in the backstroke. He is the Olympic Silver medalist and twice consecutive world champion in the 100 meters backstroke.
Zhang Yufei is a Chinese competitive swimmer who specializes in sprint freestyle and butterfly events. Considered one of the most promising swimming in the international scene, she produced a tally of forty-three medals in her swimming career, spanning the Youth Olympics, Asian Games, World Championships and the Summer Olympics. She currently holds the record for most Olympic medals for a Chinese athlete. In 2023, she was named as the most valuable player in the women's division, in the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Liu Xiang is a Chinese competitive swimmer.
Siobhán Bernadette Haughey is a Hong Kong-Irish competitive swimmer. She became the first Hong Kong swimmer to win an Olympic medal and the first Hong Kong athlete to win two Olympic medals in any sport, after winning silver in the women's 200-metre freestyle and women's 100-metre freestyle during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. She later became the only Hong Kong athlete to win four Olympic medals after winning bronze in the women's 200-metre freestyle and the women's 100-metre freestyle at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. She also won the first swimming gold for Hong Kong in 2022 Asian Games, and became the most decorated Hong Kong athlete of all time in one single edition of Asian Games with two golds, one silver, and three bronzes.
Wang Xue'er is a Chinese competitive swimmer who specializes in backstroke. She qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the 100 meter backstroke. She swam the 14th time in the heats and reached the semifinals where she finished 16th. She won gold and silver medals at the 50 m backstroke and 100 m backstroke at the 19th Asian Games.
Yang Sansheng, is a retired Chinese swimmer.
Li Bingjie is a Chinese swimmer. She is former world record holder in the short course 400 metre freestyle. She is also the Asian record holder in the long course 400 metre freestyle as well as the short course 1500 metre freestyle. She is the 2021 World Short Course champion in the 400 metre freestyle and 800 metre freestyle. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay and a bronze medal in the 400 metre freestyle.
Ariarne Elizabeth Titmus is an Australian swimmer. She is the reigning Olympic champion in the women's 400-metre freestyle, having won the event at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Olympics and the world record holder in the long course 200-metre freestyle and 400-metre freestyle events. In 2019 and 2020, she competed representing the Cali Condors in the International Swimming League.
Yang Junxuan is a Chinese swimmer specializing in freestyle events. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won gold in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay.
Chang Wei-chia is a Taiwanese freestyle swimmer. She competed in three events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In the 200m freestyle, she placed 32nd.
Lea Polonsky is an Israeli swimmer. At the 2017 European Youth Olympics she won silver medals in the 200m Medley and the mixed 4×100m Medley Relay. At the 2019 European Junior Swimming Championships she won a bronze medal in the 200 IM, and at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships she won a gold medal in the 4×200m freestyle relay, and the silver medal in the 200m medley. Polonsky represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Women's 200 metre freestyle, the 200 metre individual medley, and the 4×200 metre freestyle relay.
Tang Muhan is a Chinese swimmer. She competed in the women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Ge Chutong is a Chinese swimmer. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 4×200m freestyle relay.
