Li Bingjie (Chinese: 李冰洁, born 3 March 2002) is a Chinese swimmer. She is the 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.
Career
editAt the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, in Hawaii, United States, Bingjie won gold medals in the 200 metre freestyle with a 1:58.23, 400 metre freestyle with a 4:07.52, and the 800 metre freestyle with a 8:28.12.[3]
Bingjie competed at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, winning two silver medals and a bronze. In 2018, she competed in the World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou and won a bronze medal in the Women's 400 meter freestyle. She added a gold medal in the women's 4 x 200 meter relay, swimming the first leg.[4][5][6] In the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Li won her first gold title in the 200m Women's Freestyle with a time of 1:56.74.[7]
2021–2022
editIn 2021, Bingjie won the bronze medal in the 400 metre freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics with a time of 4:01.08, finishing 4.39 seconds behind gold medalist Ariarne Titmus of Australia.[8] She was also a gold medalist in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, splitting a 1:55.30 for the anchor leg of the relay to help set a new world record of 7:40.33.[9] Later in the year, at the 2021 World Short Course Championships in December, she won the world title and gold medal in the 800 metre freestyle with a Championships record time of 8:02.90, which was 0.51 seconds faster than the former record set seven years earlier by Mireia Belmonte of Spain.[10][11] The following day, she won the gold medal and world title in the 400 metre freestyle as well, finishing over two seconds ahead of silver medalist Summer McIntosh of Canada with a time 3:55.83.[11][12]
On 27 October 2022, at the 2022 Chinese National Swimming Championships, Bingjie won the gold medal in the short course 400 metre freestyle with a world record time of 3:51.30, lowering the former record of 3:53.92 set by Ariarne Titmus in 2018 by 2.62 seconds.[13][14][15] The following day, she set a new Asian record and Chinese record in the 1500 metre freestyle with a time of 15:41.80 and a new Chinese record in the 200 metre freestyle with a time of 1:51.25.[15]
Originally entered to compete in four individual events at the 2022 World Short Course Championships, the 200 metre freestyle, 400 metre freestyle, 800 metre freestyle, and the first-ever female 1500 metre freestyle at a World Short Course Championships, Bingjie was unable to compete after arriving in Melbourne, Australia due to contracting COVID-19.[16][17]
International championships (50 m)
edit| Meet | 200 freestyle | 400 freestyle | 800 freestyle | 1500 freestyle | 4×100 freestyle | 4×200 freestyle |
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| PACJ 2016 |  |
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| WC 2017 | 11th |  |
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| WC 2019 | 11th | 9th | 15th | 4th | ||
| OG 2020 | 20th | |
10th | 10th |
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| WC 2022 | 10th | 5th | 9th | 4th | ||
| WC 2023 | 5th | |
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International championships (25 m)
edit| Meet | 200 freestyle | 400 freestyle | 800 freestyle | 400 medley | 4×200 freestyle |
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| WC 2016 | 15th | 13th | |||
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4th |
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| WC 2022 | DNS | DNS |
Personal bests
edit- As of 27 October 2022[18]
Long course (50-meter pool)
edit| Event | Time | Meet | Date | Note(s) |
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| 50 m freestyle | 26.47 | 2019 Champions Swim Series | 28 April 2019 | |
| 100 m freestyle | 54.78 | 2021 Chinese National Swimming Championships | 5 May 2021 | |
| 200 m freestyle | 1:56.64 | 2021 Chinese National Swimming Championships | 4 May 2021 | |
| 400 m freestyle | 4:01.08 | 2020 Summer Olympics | 26 July 2021 | NR, AS |
| 800 m freestyle | 8:13.31 | 2023 World Aquatics Championships | 29 July 2023 | AS |
| 1500 m freestyle | 15:45.71 | 2023 World Aquatics Championships | 1 September 2017 | |
| 400 m individual medley | 4:55.25 | 2016-2017 Div 1 Age Group Swimming | 18 June 2016 |
Short course (25-meter pool)
edit| Event | Time | Meet | Date | Note(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 m freestyle | 26.29 | 2018 World Cup | 18 November 2018 | |
| 100 m freestyle | 54.95 | 2017 World Cup | 18 November 2017 | |
| 200 m freestyle | 1:51.25 | 2022 Chinese Swimming Championships | 28 October 2022 | NR |
| 400 m freestyle | 3:51.30 | 2022 Chinese Swimming Championships | 27 October 2022 | WR |
| 800 m freestyle | 8:02:90 | 2021 World Championships | 18 December 2021 | |
| 1500 m freestyle | 15:41.80 | 2022 Chinese Swimming Championships | 28 October 2022 | AS, NR |
| 50 m butterfly | 28.92 | 2016 World Cup | 30 September 2016 | |
| 100 m butterfly | 1:02.41 | 2016 World Championships | 6 December 2016 | |
| 200 m individual medley | 2:14.94 | 2016 World Cup | 30 September 2016 | |
| 400 m individual medley | 4:40.03 | 2016 World Championships | 6 December 2016 |
Records not set in finals: h – heat;
Swimming World Cup circuits
editThe following medals Bingjie has won at Swimming World Cup circuits.[19]
| Edition | Gold medals | Silver medals | Bronze medals | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 3 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
World records
editLong course (50-meter pool)
edit| No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Status | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4×200 m freestyle | 7:40.33 | 2020 Summer Olympics | Tokyo, Japan | 29 July 2021 | Former | [9] |
Short course (25-meter pool)
edit| No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Status | Ref |
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| 1 | 400 m freestyle | 3:51.30 | 2022 Chinese Swimming Championships | Beijing | 27 October 2022 | Current | [13][14][15] |
References
edit- ^ "2017 World Aquatics Championships > Search via Athletes". Budapest 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/en/results/swimming/athlete-profile-n2007986-li-bingjie.htm [bare URL]
- ^ Hy-Tek (27 August 2016). "Meet Results: 2016 Jr Pan Pacific Swimming Championships". swmeets.com. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
- ^ "Final results, Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay". Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
- ^ "Final results, Women's 400 metre freestyle". Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
- ^ "Wang Jianjiahe aids China win in women's 4x200 free at Hangzhou Worlds - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on 16 December 2018.
- ^ "Li Bingjie Takes Out 200 Free Asian Games Gold". Swimming World News. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ "2020 Summer Olympics Results - Swimming: Women's 400m Freestyle". ESPN. 25 July 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ a b "Tokyo Olympics 2020: China win women's 4x200m freestyle relay in world record time". The Times of India. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ FINA (18 December 2021). "15th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Abu Dhabi (AUE): Women's 800m Freestyle Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ a b "Li grabs second gold at FINA Short-course Worlds". China Internet Information Center. 20 December 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ FINA (19 December 2021). "15th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Abu Dhabi (AUE): Women's 400m Freestyle Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ a b Pérez, Marta (27 October 2022). "Li Bingjie, récord del mundo de 400 libre en piscina corta" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ a b Reindel, Jim (28 October 2022). "Li Bingjie crushes 400m freestyle world record". Infobae. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ a b c "Li Bingjie sets Asian record in 1,500m free, national mark in 200m free". China Internet Information Center. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ FINA (11 December 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Entries Book". Omega Timing. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ Miller, Nicole (13 December 2022). "Chinese Distance Star Li Bingjie Tests Positive for COVID-19 at SC Worlds". SwimSwam. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ "FINA personal best results".
- ^ "Bingjie Li: Medals". FINA. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
External links
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- Li Bingjie at World Aquatics
- Li Bingjie at SwimRankings.net
- Li Bingjie at Olympics.com
- Li Bingjie at Olympedia
- Li Bingjie at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Li Bingjie at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games (archived)
- Li Bingjie at the Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games (archived)
