Fu Yuanhui, the national record holder for the women’s 100-meter backstroke, was the champion of the women’s 50-meter and 100-meter backstroke at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. She also won gold in the women’s 50-meter backstroke and the women’s 4×100-meter medley relay at the 2015 Kazan World Championships. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, she claimed bronze in the women’s 100-meter backstroke, becoming the first Chinese athlete to stand on the Olympic podium in a women’s backstroke event.

A decade after becoming a world champion, she chose to join Zhejiang University. As she transitions from being an “athlete” to a “university lecturer,”@ZJU_China