Key facts
- National team
- China
- Born
- ( 1996-03-01 ) 1 March 1996 (age 30) , Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China
- Height
- 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
- Weight
- 64 kg (141 lb)
- Sport
- Swimming
- Strokes
- Individual Medley , Breaststroke
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Ye
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Hangzhou
- Occupation
- swimmer
- Educated at
- Tsinghua University
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Sport
- competitive swimming
- Country for sport
- China
- Mass
- 64
- Image
- Ye Shiwen (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 172
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- date of birth
- 1996-03-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Ye Shiwen (Chinese: 叶诗文; pinyin: Yè Shīwén; Mandarin pronunciation: [jê ʂɻ̩́ wə̌n] ; born 1 March 1996) is a Chinese swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won gold medals in the 400 metres and 200 metres individual medley, breaking the world record in the 400 m event and the Olympic record in the 200 m event.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ye Shiwen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.