In the men's 100-meter freestyle competition at the World Championships in Doha in the early morning of February 16, Beijing time, Pan Zhanle won the championship in 47.53 seconds.
On the first day of the relay race on the 12th, Pan Zhanle had already broken the world record, with a time of an astonishing 46.8 seconds, leading the Chinese team to win the men's relay world championship for the first time. Entering the individual event, Pan Zhanle was more at ease, and he grasped the speed well in the preliminaries and semi-finals, and entered the final with the first place.
After the start of the race, Pan Zhanle took advantage of the first 50 meters and rushed up, clearly ahead of other players. But last year, Pan Zhanle missed the podium because of his lack of strength in the second half of the race.
After a few months of tempering, Pan Zhanle has improved greatly and no longer falls behind in the second half of the race, although the Italian player chased very hard, Pan Zhanle even fell to No. 4, but he did not relax, persevered until the end to touch the wall first.
Wang HaoyuAnother Chinese player, Wang Haoyu, was in second place in the last 25 meters, but was eventually caught up by other runners and finished in seventh place.
Pan Zhanle became China's eighth men's swimming world champion, born in 2004, she is not yet 20 years old.
Wu Peng won the World Championships in the short course, Zhang Lin, Ning Zetao, Xu Jiayu and Qin Haiyang won the World Championships in the long course, Wang Shun was the Olympic champion, and Sun Yang won both the World Championships and the Olympic gold medal.
Today's Pan Zhanle has become another world champion, and a new peak era has emerged in Chinese men's swimming, with many players having the strength to compete for gold medals in the world competition, including Qin Haiyang, Xu Jiayu, Wang Shun, etc. The men's medley relay and men's freestyle relay can also compete with strong teams such as the United States, which was unimaginable before.