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Chinese athlete Pan Zhanle displays his gold medal

In the early morning of August 1, Beijing time, in the men's 100m freestyle final of the Paris Olympics, Chinese athlete Pan Zhanle swam a time of 46.40 seconds, breaking the world record and winning the first gold medal for the Chinese swimming team in the Paris Olympics. This is also the first time that a Chinese athlete has won an Olympic championship in the men's 100m freestyle event.

After the game, Pan Zhanle described his performance in the final as "avenging the previous shame". He revealed two details, "On the first day of our 4x100 relay, I greeted Chalmers from below, but he ignored me. Even Alexi from the American team ignored me. When we were training, the coach was on the shore, and they rolled over and splashed water on the coach, which seemed to show that they looked down on us."

Pan Zhanle celebrates winning the championship

Facing external doubts, disregard and arrogance of foreign athletes, Pan Zhanle responded to everything with a world record-breaking performance in the final. Pan Zhanle's result in the final was about 1 second faster than the second-place Australian athlete Chalmers, which is already a huge gap in the 100-meter freestyle competition.

After winning the gold medal, Pan Zhanle was very happy. "Today I finally beat all of them, and broke the world record in such a difficult swimming pool. It was really a very good performance and a great start for the Chinese team."

Pan Zhanle took a photo with the runner-up and third place winners

Regarding breaking the world record, Pan Zhanle said: "I didn't even think about it (breaking the world record). I just wanted to rush forward and push back. In the last 15 meters, I found that I had left them too far behind and there was no way I could catch up."

As for how he did it in the end, Pan Zhanle replied, "Just hold your breath. With so many people in our country, everyone's hope, I felt it the moment before I went into the water!"

At the award ceremony after the game, when the live broadcast announced that Pan Zhanle won the gold medal, the audience burst into cheers. In addition, Australian swimmer Chalmers, who won the second place in the men's 100m freestyle, also took the initiative to reach out to Pan Zhanle on the podium and express his congratulations.

Pan Zhanle, the "God of the 100m freestyle", has defeated outside doubts with his outstanding performances time and time again, and has also won recognition from foreign audiences and athletes. That night at the La Defense Stadium in Paris, the whole world cheered for Pan Zhanle, and Pan Zhanle brought justice to the Chinese swimming team.

Further reading:

China's first gold medal in swimming! Pan Zhanle breaks the world record

Beijing time, August 1st,In the men's 100m freestyle final at the Paris Olympics,Pan Zhanle from ChinaBreaking the world record with a score of 46.40 secondsWin the gold medal!

This is the 9th gold medal won by the Chinese delegation in this Olympic Games.

Early this morning, Chinese athlete Pan Zhanle celebrated after the game. Source: Xinhua News Agency

In the previous 4×100m freestyle relay final, Pan Zhanle swam a new Olympic record of 46.92 seconds. However, in the 100m freestyle preliminaries, Pan Zhanle almost missed the semifinals. In the semifinals, he swam 47.21 seconds and advanced to the finals with the first place. Rushing to the top of the cloud and falling into the deep valley, netizens said that such a "roller coaster" is too exciting and requires a "big heart".

Halfway through the competition, the swimming team still had not won a gold medal. Everyone was looking forward to Pan Zhanle winning the gold medal in the much-anticipated "Flying Fish" Men's 100m Freestyle. As expected, hard work will not be in vain, and Pan Zhanle made history.

Pan Zhanle breaks the world record

A record that shocked the world

No one could have imagined that the "Chinese Flying Fish" would emerge at the Budapest Swimming World Championships two years ago.

Following Ning Zetao at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, a Chinese male athlete once again stood on the starting platform of the 100m "Flying Fish" final of the world championships.

That year, the 17-year-old Pan Zhanle swam under 48 seconds twice in the semifinals and finals. Although he failed to stand on the podium by 0.08 seconds, Pan Zhanle had brought enough surprises to Chinese swimming.

The 48-second mark in the 100-meter freestyle in swimming, like the 10-second mark in the 100-meter freestyle in track and field, is a threshold for Asian athletes.

At the 2023 National Swimming Championships, Pan Zhanle won 6 gold medals in one go and broke the Asian record for the men's 100m freestyle held by Korean player Hwang Sun-woo with a time of 47.22 seconds.

Then at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Pan Zhanle continued to make breakthroughs in the 100m freestyle. He won the championship with a time of 46.97 seconds, breaking the 47-second barrier, and was only 0.11 seconds away from the world record, becoming the fifth person in history and the first person in Asia to break the 47-second barrier. But at the time, he made a surprising statement in the mixed interview area and press conference after the game: "It was just average, because before the game I was swimming with my eyes on the world record, and in the end I was 0.11 seconds away, which was a bit of a pity." "Without a world record, I don't deserve to be called the 'Chinese Flying Fish'."

In February this year, in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay final of the FINA World Championships, the Chinese team consisting of Pan Zhanle, Ji Xinjie, Zhang Zhanshuo and Wang Haoyu won the championship with a time of 3 minutes 11.08 seconds. Pan Zhanle broke the men's 100m freestyle world record (46.86 seconds) set by Romanian player Popovic at the 2022 European Championships with a time of 46.80 seconds in the relay. "The world record is not the end, my career has just begun." In an interview after the game, the 19-year-old Pan Zhanle was full of confidence in the future.