World swimming championships: China's Sun Yang

Chinese famous swimmer

Sun Yang is widey known as the most successful Chinese swimmer and the country's most famous athlete in history with world Asian, Olymic and National Records tied to his name. He began swimming at a young age, and first real breakout was at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when he was just 16 years old. He was the first Chinese man to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming. Sun even anchored the bronze-medal winning 800m freestyle relay, which was one of China's first relay medals in swimming. 

China's Sun Yang with his 400m freestyle gold medal

Australia outs Sun after violation. Swimming Australian made the decision to cut ties with sun, and tighten up regulations regarding foreign athletes that are training in Australia's excellence training centers. Under Cotterell's tutelage Yang won gold in both the 400m and 1500m freestyle at the London Olympics in 2012, smashing the world 1500m record in the process. Sun also won the 400m freestyle world title with the aid of a banned Australian coach, Brian King. He dominated the 400m final to win by more than a second in 3min42.5sec, the fastest time of the year. 

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Bahrain ten-year-old girl to become youngest athlete at world swimming championships

Youngest swimmer to make word champ debut

Bahrain ten-year-old Alzain Tareq swimmer to make world championships debut

Alzain Tareq is a ten-year-old girl from Bahrain is set to compete at swimming world championships. when Alzain Tareq steps on to the blocks for the women's 50m butterfly heats at Kazzan,Russia, she will become the youngest athlete making splash at world swimming championships. There are no age restrictions for the championships, she has qualified as the fastest female swimmer from her national trials. 

she has been learn swimming since the age of four, supported by her father. Her father is a former professional swimmer Tareq Salem, who train twice a day, five days a week, either side of her school studies. Her qualifying time of 41.12s in the 50m butterfly compares to the world record of 24.43s by Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom. Tareq has boldly declared that she won't fear anything or anybody. she said" the most important thing for me is gain experience of competing at high-profile events, watch the technical skills of famous Olympic champions and maybe even add some of their skills to my armory". 

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