## VERDICT: TRUE The core claim survives fact-checking against the sport's own governing-body database — with one important caveat about the *label* "world record." ### Claim-linked findings (verified against primary data) **1. Both averages exist, in the order claimed, in the WCA's own database.** The World Cube Association's official competitor record for "Yunzhi Lian (连允之)", WCA ID 2025LIAN01, gender **female**, China, shows her competition results: **4.52 average** in the final of *Wuhan Crimson Autumn 2026* and **4.27 average** in the final of *Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 IV 2026*, with her current personal best 3x3 average stored as 427 (i.e., 4.27 s). → [WCA person page](https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/persons/2025LIAN01) and [WCA machine-readable person record](https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/api/v0/persons/2025LIAN01) **2. The two results were set at two separate WCA-sanctioned competitions three days apart, confirming "twice in three days."** WCA's own competition records give *Wuhan Crimson Autumn 2026* (Wuhan, Hubei) as **2026-09-13** and *Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 IV 2026* (Guangzhou, Guangdong) as **2026-09-16** → [WCA competition record: Wuhan](https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/api/v0/competitions/WuhanCrimsonAutumn2026), [WCA competition record: Guangzhou](https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/api/v0/competitions/GuangzhouGraDUAL3x3IV2026). The organizer's sanctioning pages agree (both marked "WCA-certified competition"): [Cubing China – Wuhan Crimson Autumn 2026, Sep 13, 2026](https://cubing.com/competition/Wuhan-Crimson-Autumn-2026), [Cubing China – Guangzhou GraDUAL 3x3 IV 2026, Sep 16, 2026](https://cubing.com/competition/Guangzhou-GraDUAL-3x3-IV-2026). (Note: Chinese-language media say Sept 12 and 14; the governing body's data and organizer pages say Sept 13 and 16 — either way the "three days apart" element holds, and the record order 4.52 → 4.27 is unchanged.) **3. The previous women's best average was 4.68 s, so the 4.52 did break the women's record and the 4.27 broke it again.** WCA's data shows the fastest female average before this was **4.68 s by Qixian Cao (曹岂娴)**, set 2 May 2026 at *Start of Summer Beijing 2026* → [WCA record for Qixian Cao, gender "f", best average 468](https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/api/v0/persons/2023CAOQ01). The world 3x3 average ranking list places Cao's 4.68 and Lian's 4.27 as the two fastest female results, with Lian's 4.27 ranked **4th overall in the world** → [WCA world 3x3 average rankings](https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/api/v0/results/rankings/333/average?region=World). So 4.52 < 4.68 (record broken) and 4.27 < 4.52 (broken again): "twice in three days" is accurate. **4. The "6-year-old Chinese girl" framing is independently corroborated.** World Record Certification (an independent record-certification body, separate from the WCA) lists her as "Lian Yunzhi (Chengdu, China, b. 2 December 2019)," aged "6-year-old and 151 days," for a 3.948 s solve at *Start of Summer Beijing 2026*, a WCA competition, on 2 May 2026 → [World Record Certification record WRC260504A](https://www.worldrecordcertification.com/record/record-holders/puzzle-challenges/20563/). ### Caveat (why the wording still needs care) "Women's world record" is a **gender-category designation, not one of the WCA's official open record titles**. WCA's own person-record data credits Lian with **zero** official world records (`"records":{"world":0}`), because the fastest *overall* 3x3 average is 3.51 s (Yiheng Wang, male) and Lian's 4.27 ranks 4th overall; the WCA rankings endpoint also returns identical results with or without a `gender=female` parameter, i.e. its public records feed is not gender-separated. The claim is nonetheless substantively correct: her 4.27 s average is the fastest ever recorded by a female in WCA competition, and it improved her own record set three days earlier. ### Note on source types I looked specifically for government, university, intergovernmental or peer-reviewed sources and could not find any for this record claim (there is no government/university/IGO/peer-reviewed publication covering it — searches on `gov.cn` and `edu.cn` domains returned nothing for this athlete). For a WCA competition record, the only authoritative primary source is the World Cube Association itself — the sport's world governing body and sole ratifier of these results — which I cite above directly from its own database, plus the independent certifier World Record Certification and the WCA-sanctioned competition pages. All news coverage (BBC, CGTN, ECNS, SCMP, Chinese outlets) traces back to exactly these WCA numbers.