Li Bingjie

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.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

Li Bingjie
Personal information
NationalityChinese
Born (2002-03-03) 3 March 2002[1]
Baoding, Hebei, China
Height173 cm (5 ft 8 in) [2]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  China
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 1
World Championships (LC) 0 3 3
World Championships (SC) 3 0 2
Total 4 3 6
Women's swimming
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo400 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place2017 Budapest800 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2017 Budapest4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2023 Fukuoka800 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2017 Budapest400 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2023 Fukuoka1500 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2023 Fukuoka4×200 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place2018 Hangzhou4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2021 Abu Dhabi400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2021 Abu Dhabi800 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2018 Hangzhou400 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2021 Abu Dhabi4x200 m freestyle
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta 200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta 4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 800 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 1500 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2018 Jakarta 400 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2018 Jakarta 800 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2018 Jakarta 1500 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hangzhou 200 m freestyle
Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Maui 200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2016 Maui 400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2016 Maui 800 m freestyle
World University Games
Gold medal – first place2021 Chengdu400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2021 Chengdu800 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2021 Chengdu1500 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2021 Chengdu4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2021 Chengdu4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2021 Chengdu4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place2021 Chengdu4×100 m mixed freestyle
Gold medal – first place2021 Chengdu4×100 m mixed medley

Career

At 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

In 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)
Meet 200 freestyle 400 freestyle 800 freestyle 1500 freestyle 4×100 freestyle 4×200 freestyle
Junior level
PACJ 20161st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)5th5th
Senior level
WC 201711th3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
AG 20181st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
WC 201911th9th15th4th
OG 202020th3rd place, bronze medalist(s)10th10th1st place, gold medalist(s)
WC 202210th5th9th4th

International championships (25 m)
Meet 200 freestyle 400 freestyle 800 freestyle 400 medley 4×200 freestyle
WC 201615th13th
WC 20183rd place, bronze medalist(s)4th1st place, gold medalist(s)
WC 20211st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
WC 2022DNSDNS

Personal bests
As of 27 October 2022[18]

Long course (50-meter pool)
Event Time Meet Date Note(s)
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 8:15.46 2017 World Championships 29 July 2017 Former AS
1500 m freestyle 15:52.87 2017 National Games of China 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)
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
Legend: WR – World record; AS – Asian record; NR – Chinese record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Swimming World Cup circuits

The following medals Bingjie has won at Swimming World Cup circuits.[19]

EditionGold medalsSilver medalsBronze medalsTotal
20150101
20160101
20172417
20181001
Total36110

World records

Long course (50-meter pool)
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)
No. Event Time Meet Location Date Status Ref
1 400 m freestyle 3:51.30 2022 Chinese Swimming Championships Beijing 27 October 2022 Current [13][14][15]

References
  1. "2017 World Aquatics Championships > Search via Athletes". Budapest 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  2. https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/en/results/swimming/athlete-profile-n2007986-li-bingjie.htm
  3. Hy-Tek (27 August 2016). "Meet Results: 2016 Jr Pan Pacific Swimming Championships". swmeets.com. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  4. "Final results, Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay". Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  5. "Final results, Women's 400 metre freestyle". Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  6. "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.
  7. "Li Bingjie Takes Out 200 Free Asian Games Gold". Swimming World News. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  8. "2020 Summer Olympics Results - Swimming: Women's 400m Freestyle". ESPN. 25 July 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  9. "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.
  10. 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.
  11. "Li grabs second gold at FINA Short-course Worlds". China Internet Information Center. 20 December 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  12. 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.
  13. Pérez, Marta (27 October 2022). "Li Bingjie, récord del mundo de 400 libre en piscina corta" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  14. Reindel, Jim (28 October 2022). "Li Bingjie crushes 400m freestyle world record". Infobae. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  15. "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.
  16. FINA (11 December 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Entries Book". Omega Timing. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  17. Miller, Nicole (13 December 2022). "Chinese Distance Star Li Bingjie Tests Positive for COVID-19 at SC Worlds". SwimSwam. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  18. "FINA personal best results".
  19. "Bingjie Li: Medals". FINA. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
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