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| Born | Hunan, China | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, medley | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Yang Zhixian is a Chinese swimmer who competes in the Men's 400m individual medley. [1] At the 2012 Summer Olympics he finished 12th overall in the heats in the Men's 400 metre individual medley and failed to reach the final.
Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles—backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle—into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley (IM) or by four swimmers as a medley relay.
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