At 47.22 seconds, Zhejiang's 18-year-old Pan Zhanle once again made history, this 1.9 meter tall sunny handsome guy with his own eight-pack abs once again surprised us, greatly breaking the Asian record in the men's 100m freestyle.
This is definitely a result that swimmers around the world dare not imagine, even more incredible than Su Bingtian's feat of 9.83 seconds, why say so? Perhaps after listening to the following, you will also agree with my point of view, Pan Zhanle deserves more hot searches and praise.
Don't look at Pan Zhanle just broke Ning Zetao's national record and South Korean rising star Hwang Sun-woo's Asian record! But Pan Zhanle's fight raised the limit of the yellow race by 0.34 seconds, he was the first Asian to swim 47.50 seconds, not only set this year's world best time, but also surpassed last year's world championship time, and the time of 47.22 seconds, in the entire history of mankind, ranked 22nd, Pan Zhanle became the 11th fastest runner in the history of the men's 100m freestyle.
Can you imagine that an Asian athlete, in a perennial event dominated by Europe, the United States and Australia, became the 11th fastest athlete in history, you know, in so many years of the Olympic Games, only two Asian athletes have reached the Olympic men's 100-meter freestyle final, and before Ning Zetao won the championship in 2015, no Asian face had ever entered the final of the World Championships.
However, Ning Zetao once did it, and now, Pan Zhanle has also done it, so does he have a chance to become the next world champion? I want to say that it is absolutely possible that Pan Zhanle's future is now comparable to Popovich, in this era of dominance, some people are limited by status, some people are limited by nationality, and the real opponents may only be Popovich and Drexel.
Pan Zhanle said that there is a place in the top three in the world, this confidence comes from strength and achievements, and he is still young, there is still a lot of room for improvement, we also hope that he can avoid injuries and strive for better results, belonging to his era, maybe on the way.