On February 16, Beijing time, Doha, Qatar once again became the focus of the world's attention. Top swimmers from around the world are converging here for the 2024 World Swimming Championships in Doha. However, for Chinese swimmers, more attention is paid to the performance of Chinese swimmers. I hope that in this World Championships, there will be talented new stars like Sun Yang and Ning Zetao emerging back then.
However, it is gratifying that there is no shortage of talented new stars in Chinese swimming that will surprise the world. The World Championships in Doha were no exception. Pan Zhanle, a 19-year-old talent from Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, is undoubtedly the brightest star of the World Championships in Doha. His god-like performance is undoubtedly the most exciting scene of the World Championships in Doha!
On the first day of competition, he swam 46.80 seconds in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay final and set a new world record. In the early hours of this morning, the men's 100-meter freestyle final at the Aspire Stadium continued to stage a magical scene, and he won the championship of the 100-meter flying fish battle with a time of 47.53 seconds.
Although his victory today was a bit short of the world record he set a few days earlier, it was quite commendable to be able to take the lead in the final of the World Championships. It is worth mentioning that this is also the second time that Chinese swimmers have been involved in the heaviest individual championship in the water flying fish battle after Ning Zetao won the championship at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, which is comparable to the achievements of Chinese flyers such as Liu Xiang and Su Bingtian.
And Pan Zhanle's ability to have a blockbuster explosion in this World Championships is not only inseparable from his personal talent and diligence, but also closely related to his study under Zheng Kunliang, the coach of the Zhejiang team who once trained Sun Yang. It is under the careful guidance of Director Zheng that Pan Zhanle's achievements in the past two years have begun to improve by leaps and bounds.
In the domestic 100-meter freestyle competition, he went from the third place in the 2021 National Games to the championship at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year with an excellent result of 46.97 seconds, breaking the 47-second mark for the first time. and then broke the world record and won the double gold at the World Championships in Doha, announcing the birth of a new flying fish in the 100-meter freestyle!