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Yeah! She Won

Ye said she normally spent five hours every day in the pool for nine years and in Australia she was able to fine-tune her stroke efficiency, starting and turning.

Cotterell, Australian distance swimmer Grant Hackett's mentor, said Ye had "unparalleled gifts".

"She's a little girl with a lot of strength and power. She may even get better given that she's improved a lot in Australia," Cotterell told China Central Television on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Brazil's freestyle sprinter Cesar Cielo, who won the 50m free at the Beijing Olympics, believed Ye's last 50m achievement is easily explained.

"I think it's possible (for a woman to outperform a man in last leg sprint)," Cielo told China Daily.

"She's 16. I think she can swim fast because the structure of her body really makes a lot of difference in terms of speed."

With all eyes on Ye's incredible-fast last sprint, many may fail to realize that her world-record time was still 23 seconds slower than Lochte's winning time, and many other male swimmers were faster than Ye over the final 50m.

Ye started swimming at the age of six after her kindergarten teacher noticed she had much larger hands and feet than other children. Drafted into the national team three years ago, Ye made her first splash at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games by bagging 200m and 400m in the individual medley before hitting international headlines at last year's Worlds, where she won the 200m.