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Competing in the 50 freestyle, the 17 year old Chinese swimmer touched the wall in 24.00 to tie for first with Danish swimmer <\/span><b>Jeanette Ottesen. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That swim cleared the previous mark by .09 to put her name in the record books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As junior world records are a relatively new concept, having only been introduced by FINA is 2015, many of the existing short course records are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fina-short-course-world-junior-records\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cbenchmark\u201d times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that don\u2019t have a name associated with them. The benchmark time for the women\u2019s short course 50 freestyle was a 24.09, which <\/span><b>Zhu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was able to clear by almost a tenth and just miss breaking into that 23-second range. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While only 17, <\/span><b>Zhu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is no stranger to international competition. She competed for China in the 4 x 100 medley and freestyle relays, and was one of the fastest junior swimmers in the individual 100 freestyle. 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