The 2024 Doha World Swimming Championships continued, and on February 17, the 15th day of competition ended, in which the Chinese team staged two super-burning moments and won two gold medals in a single day, among which the men's 4x200m freestyle relay team composed of Ji Xinjie/Wang Haoyu/Pan Zhanle/Zhang Zhanshuo won the gold medal in history, and broke the national record by a large margin, and Pan Zhanle won the third gold medal of this competition, becoming another Chinese male athlete who won at least three gold medals at the World Championships after Sun Yang and Qin Haiyang.
In the men's 200-meter breaststroke final, Dong Zhihao staged an epic reversal in the last 50 meters, chased from 6th to 1st, won his first World Championships gold medal, and became the new world champion of the Chinese swimming team
Men's 4x200m freestyle final
Champion: China 7:01.84
Runner-up: South Korea 7:01.94
Third place: United States 7:02.08
In the preliminaries, Pan Zhanle gave up his individual 50 self for the relay, and also helped the Chinese team rank first and qualify for the Olympics, in this final, the South Korean team came up with the lineup that won the championship in the Asian Games, and the Chinese team is still Ji Xinjie / Wang Haoyu / Pan Zhanle / Zhang Zhanshuo, the four of them previously won the championship in the 4x100m freestyle, and all became world champions.
Final Recap
In the finals, Ji Xinjie's first list was decent, the fourth place was handed over, the second Wang Haoyu rose to second, and the South Korean team also chased from eighth to third, the third base, Pan Zhanle swam a single stick with a score of 1:43.90, the gap continued to narrow, and the last stick Zhang Zhanshuo overtook the United States in the last 50 meters, and at the same time withstood Huang Xuanyou's crazy counterattack, and finally won the championship with a score of 7:01.84! This result also broke the national record. Pan Zhanle won the third gold medal of this competition, becoming another Chinese male athlete to win at least three gold medals at the World Championships after Sun Yang and Qin Haiyang. The other three have all become double gold medalists at the World Championships.
It is worth mentioning that the Chinese men's team used the same lineup to compete in the preliminaries and finals at the same time, and won the only two men's relay championships in Asia, with 4 people and 4 games and 2 golds, which is also the first time in history.
Men's 200m breaststroke final
Semi-final recap
Dong Zhihao began to be discovered by more people at last year's World Championships, he is another Chinese breaststroke expert besides Qin Haiyang, who finished fourth in the semi-finals last year, and also finished fourth in the final and set a world junior record. In this World Championships, Dong Zhihao advanced as the second in the semifinals of the 200-meter breaststroke.
Final Recap
In the first 150 meters, Dong Zhihao has always ranked sixth, but he sprinted wildly in the last 50 meters, from sixth to first, and won the championship with a time of 2:07.94!
In addition, Yu Yiting ranked 4th and advanced to the women's 50m freestyle final, and Hong Kong, China's Ho Shibei won the second place in the women's 100m freestyle.
Swimming preliminaries on February 17
Venue: Aspire Stadium