Chao News client reporter Shen Tingyu.
Photo source: Xinhua News Agency.
Four gold medals, one world record.
At the just-concluded Doha World Swimming Championships, 19-year-old Zhejiang teenager Pan Zhanle ushered in a bumper gold medal harvest and became the biggest winner.
In the face of the honor, he just said lightly, "The gold medal is just the beginning, it will motivate me to train harder".
Even if he broke the world record, he said calmly, "I didn't expect the world record to be broken so quickly, I think this matter is very sacred and grand, but after breaking it, I found that I am still me, and life is still as usual." ”
I have to say, this is very Pan Zhanle.
Looking back on his growth experience, Youfengjun found that Pan Zhanle always had a forward momentum.
Five months, breaking the world record
On February 12, in the early morning of the third day of the first lunar month, Pan Zhanle, who was far away in Doha, Qatar, made his dream come true.
On the first final day of the Doha World Swimming Championships, in the men's 4 100m freestyle relay final, the four-person combination of Pan Zhanle, Ji Xinjie, Zhang Zhanshuo and Wang Haoyu won the first men's swimming relay world championship for the Chinese team with a time of 3:11.08.
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What's even more exciting is that the first Pan Zhanle set a new world record of 46.80 seconds. Let the official commentators exclaim: "It's incredible!" ”
According to the relay rules, the first runner can apply to the chief referee for a world record, making Poon the first world record holder in an Olympic year. He improved the world record in the men's 100m freestyle held by Romanian phenom Popovic by 006 seconds.
Fengjun still remembers that at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Pan Zhanle swam 46.97 seconds in the men's 100-meter freestyle final, only 011 seconds, becoming the fifth person in history and the first person in Asia to break the 47-second mark. But at that time, he made a surprising statement in the mixed mining area and at the press conference after the race: "The comparison is average, because before the race I was staring at the world record to swim, and in the end I was 011 seconds, a bit of a pity. "There is no world record, and it is not worthy of being called 'China Flying Fish'. ”
Unexpectedly, in only five months, Pan Zhanle achieved transcendence.
After that, he won the men's 100m freestyle competition with a time of 47.53 seconds, won the first individual gold medal at the World Championships, and won the mixed 4 100m freestyle relay and the men's 4 200m freestyle relay.
In the past two World Championships, Pan Zhanle has missed the podium. This time in Doha, at his third World Championships, Pan Zhanle not only stood on the top podium of the men's 100m freestyle, but also became the new "flying fish" who combined the world record and world championship in this event.
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Despite the attention he has received, he has always been calm: "The World Championships in Doha are 'off' and winning four gold medals just proves that my efforts in the last period of time have not been in vain, and motivates me to train harder in the future." Thank you for more and more friends to follow me and pay attention to Chinese swimming. I hope that people don't brag when I'm doing well and don't ridicule me when I'm in bad shape. I'm going to keep working hard and be at my best at the Olympics. ”
Cool Cool Boy
During the Hangzhou Asian Games, after watching Pan Zhanle's many games and speeches one after another, someone commented on him to Youfengjun: "Pan Zhanle has a cool boy's energy. ”
In fact, Pan Zhanle has been like this since he was a child.
Pan Zhanle, who was born in 2004, was recruited into the Miao class by Wenzhou Youth Swimming School at the age of 4 and a half because of his good comprehensive physical fitness. In September 2011, he was transferred to Wenzhou Sports School to study under Coach Wang Shi.
"Smart" and "hardworking" are the coach's evaluations of him. "Freestyle hits the legs, other kids are tired and loose, he can keep up. In Wang Shi's memory, Pan Zhanle had a strong interest and enthusiasm for swimming when he was a child. At that time, Wang Shi's "punishment" for him was not to let him go into the water, which would make him very uncomfortable.
At the 2014 Shaoxing Provincial Games, Pan Zhanle, who had just turned 10, won seven gold medals in five days, including 50m, 100m, 400m freestyle and 200m medley and three relays.
At that time, Pan Zhanle always had a cool expression, and occasionally popped out a few words but was very "lethal" - when the reporter asked him how many gold medals he was going to win, he said "I want to take anything".
Pan Zhanle, who is only 10 years old, photo source Metro Express.
Looking back on Pan Zhanle's growth experience, 2018 was a very difficult year. Facing the development period of teenagers, Pan Zhanle is not as tall and strong as his peers, and his grades are inevitably a little unstable. Fortunately, he is very able to adjust his mentality, and always train and improve step by step.
Previously, Pan Zhanle's father also told Youfengjun that over the years, his son had never complained in front of his family. "It's more about reassuring us that everything is fine and going well. ”
Trained hard and had a clear goal, Pan Zhanle achieved his current results step by step. Therefore, when he released his bold words, although people were surprised, they thought that he would be able to achieve it sooner or later.
No, at the World Swimming Championships in Doha, Pan Zhanle said: "Breaking the world record is a matter of course, my goal is to swim faster, there is no upper limit." I want to raise the world record even higher so that other competitors can't easily touch it! ”
Pan Zhanle at the Melbourne Short Course World Championships, photo source Xinhua News Agency.
See you in Paris
For athletes, the Paris Olympics are undoubtedly an important event this year.
At the World Swimming Championships in Doha, when Pan Zhanle won his first individual World Championships title, he confidently shouted the phrase "See you in Paris".
Indeed, for him, this was his first World Championship gold medal, but it was only the beginning.
Those who are familiar with Pan Zhanle know that he once named himself "Grandstand Spectator" on social **. Why this screen name? He said: "The name was given during the 2021 World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, and I was basically in the stands at that time, so I thought it was very appropriate and suited me perfectly. But I haven't been in the stands since I changed my screen name, and I feel like there's a reverse incentive. ”
By the 2022 World Championships in Budapest, Pan Zhanle began to emerge. In the semifinals of the 100-meter freestyle, he swam a time of 47.65 seconds, tying the national record held by Ning Zetao. At the 2023 National Swimming Championships, Pan Zhanle won 6 gold medals in one go, and broke the men's 100m freestyle Asian record held by South Korea's Hwang Sun-woo with a time of 47.22 seconds. Immediately afterwards, at the Hangzhou Asian Games and the World Championships in Doha, breakthroughs were achieved one after another.
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Of course, he never stopped.
His next goal is the Paris Olympics, but when he continues to surpass it with time and time again, the ultimate goal is only himself.
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