In the men's 100-meter freestyle final of the Paris Olympics that ended in the early morning of August 1, Beijing time, Pan Zhanle, the world record holder and Chinese star, lived up to expectations and won the 9th gold medal for the Chinese delegation in this Olympic Games with a time of 46.40 seconds, which is also the first gold medal of the Chinese swimming team in this Olympic Games.
In this Olympic Games, Pan Zhanle can be called the best player in the Chinese swimming team. Although he failed to win a medal in the previous relay, Pan Zhanle was very brave in his own basemanship, narrowing the gap with his opponent and swimming 43 seconds, breaking the Olympic record. And in this final, Pan Zhanle also took the lead as soon as he entered the water, and he still led after turning halfway, and swam faster and faster, even one position ahead of his opponent.
In the end, Pan Zhanle broke his own world record with a time of 46.40 seconds. Pan Zhanle shook off the second place, Australia's Chalmers by 1.08 seconds, which was indeed a quite reversal performance in the evenly matched Olympic 100-meter swimming pool. Pan Zhanle also directly improved his world record by 0.4 seconds, such a performance is indeed amazing.
This is the second time in one year that Poon has broken the 100 self world record. At this year's World Swimming Championships, Pan Zhanle swam 46.80 seconds, breaking the world record at the time. This is the fifth time in Pan Zhanle's career and the second time in this Olympic Games that he has swam 43 seconds, and he has broken the Olympic and world records twice.
With the Olympic gold medal, 19-year-old Pan Zhanle has completed the grand slam of the men's 100m freestyle! He has already won world records, world championship records, Olympic records, world championship gold medals, Olympic gold medals, and Asian Games gold medals.There is no doubt that Pan Zhanle has become the new leader of Chinese swimming.