"I thought at the 200 meters that the race was lost, but then I realized I was in the top two or three and I was confident I could win on the last leg, " said Ye.

In the 2012 London Olympic Games, Ye Shiwen won the women's 400 m Medley match, and break the world record by 4 points 28 seconds 43.

Twenty minutes after Yang won China's maiden gold medal, 16-year-old ye Shiwen triumphed in the women's 400m medley, as well as breaking the world record set in Beijing four years ago.