Li Bingjie

In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

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.

Li Bingjie

Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	(2002-03-03) 3 March 2002 (age 21)^[1] Baoding, Hebei, China
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in) ^[2]
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
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 2020 Tokyo 4×200 m freestyle 2020 Tokyo 400 m freestyle World Championships (LC) 2017 Budapest 800 m freestyle 2017 Budapest 4×200 m freestyle 2023 Fukuoka 800 m freestyle 2017 Budapest 400 m freestyle 2023 Fukuoka 1500 m freestyle 2023 Fukuoka 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2018 Hangzhou 4×200 m freestyle 2021 Abu Dhabi 400 m freestyle 2021 Abu Dhabi 800 m freestyle 2018 Hangzhou 400 m freestyle 2021 Abu Dhabi 4x200 m freestyle Asian Games 2018 Jakarta 200 m freestyle 2018 Jakarta 4×200 m freestyle 2022 Hangzhou 400 m freestyle 2022 Hangzhou 800 m freestyle 2022 Hangzhou 1500 m freestyle 2022 Hangzhou 4×100 m freestyle 2022 Hangzhou 4×200 m freestyle 2018 Jakarta 400 m freestyle 2018 Jakarta 800 m freestyle 2018 Jakarta 1500 m freestyle 2022 Hangzhou 200 m freestyle Junior Pan Pacific Championships 2016 Maui 200 m freestyle 2016 Maui 400 m freestyle 2016 Maui 800 m freestyle World University Games 2021 Chengdu 400 m freestyle 2021 Chengdu 800 m freestyle 2021 Chengdu 1500 m freestyle 2021 Chengdu 4×100 m freestyle 2021 Chengdu 4×200 m freestyle 2021 Chengdu 4×100 m medley 2021 Chengdu 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2021 Chengdu 4×100 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 2016					5th	5th
Senior level
WC 2017	11th
AG 2018
WC 2019	11th	9th	15th			4th
OG 2020	20th		10th	10th
WC 2022		10th	5th	9th		4th

International championships (25 m)

Meet	200 freestyle	400 freestyle	800 freestyle	400 medley	4×200 freestyle
WC 2016		15th		13th
WC 2018			4th
WC 2021
WC 2022	DNS	DNS

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]

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

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. . Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
5. . Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
6. . 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.

External links

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Li Bingjie.

• Li Bingjie at World Aquatics 
• Li Bingjie at SwimRankings.net 
• Li Bingjie at Olympedia 

Records
Preceded by   Ariarne Titmus	Women's 400-metre freestyle world record-holder (short course) 27 October 2022 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent