Zhang Yiyao (born 13 March 2002) is a Chinese artistic swimmer. At the

2022 World Aquatics Championships The 2022 World Aquatics Championships, the 19th edition of the FINA World Aquatics Championships, were held in Budapest, Hungary, from 17 June to 3 July 2022. In March 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FINA banned both the Russian an ...

, she won a bronze medal in the mixed duet technical routine and a bronze medal in the mixed duet free routine. In 2018, she won two silver medals in mixed duet events at the World Junior Championships and four gold medals, two in mixed duet events and two in team events, at the leg of the 2018 Artistic Swimming World Series held in Beijing.

Background

Yiyao was born 13 March 2002 in

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."Yiyao Zhang"
FINA. Retrieved 24 July 2022.

Career

2018

At the second leg of the 2018 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series, held in Beijing in April, Yiyao won two gold medals in team events, the team technical routine and the team free routine, contributing in a reserve role for each event."FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018 – Leg 2: Results Women Team Technical"
FINA. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2022."FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018 – Leg 2: Results Women Team Free"
FINA. 21 April 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2022. In the mixed duet technical routine, she and her partner Shi Haoyu won the gold medal with a score of 76.9274 points."FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018 – Leg 2: Results Mixed Duet Technical"
FINA. 20 April 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2022. They followed up their performance with another gold medal, this time in the mixed duet free routine with a score of 77.8667 points."FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018 – Leg 2: Results Mixed Duet Free"
FINA. 22 April 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2022. Later in the year, in July at the 2018 World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary, she won silver medals in the mixed duet technical routine, with a score of 79.3538 points, and the mixed duet free routine, with a score of 81.4667 points, competing with partner Shi Haoyu in both events. FINA (22 July 2018)
"16th FINA World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships Budapest (HUN): Complete Results Book"
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2022 World Aquatics Championships

In the preliminaries of the mixed duet technical routine at the

, held in Budapest, Hungary with artistic swimming contested in June, Yiyao and her partner Shi Haoyu scored 84.8232 points, advancing to the final ranking third. FINA (18 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Mixed Duet Technical Preliminary Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 July 2022.Gavini, Fernando (18 June 2022)
"Brasil avança a duas finais no nado artístico no Mundial"
(in Portuguese). ''olimpiadatododia.com.br''. Retrieved 24 July 2022. For their performance in the final two days later, the duo scored 86.4425 points and won the bronze medal behind gold medalists

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of Italy and silver medalists

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. FINA (20 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Mixed Duet Technical Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 July 2022.Régis, Marlos (June 2022)
"Em dia de glória, italiano bate primeiro recorde mundial na Natação, veja o resumo do dia"
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'' The Japan Times''. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022. In the preliminaries of the mixed duet free routine four days later, the duo qualified for the final with an overall third-rank and score of 87.8333 points. FINA (24 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Mixed Duet Free Preliminary Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 July 2022. Improving their score to 88.4000 points in the final with choreography to music by Chinese musical artist Yang Bingyin with a "Swordsmen" theme, they won the bronze medal.Croes, Maureen (25 June 2022)
"Italy and Ukraine win last two gold medals; Italy overall winner"
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''. 26 June 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022."Artistic swimming: Japanese siblings win mixed duet silver at worlds"

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. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.

International championships

Artistic Swimming World Series circuits

The following medals Yiyao has won at Artistic Swimming World Series circuits."Yiyao Zhang: Medals"
FINA. Retrieved 24 July 2022.

References

External links

*{{Sports links 2002 births Living people Chinese synchronized swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming Artistic swimmers at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships