It's enough to be faster than Sun Yang. Ten years ago, a ten-year-old Zhejiang boy Pan Zhanle made such a bold statement. At that time, he had just come out of the swimming pool, and after winning seven gold medals, he was full of confidence in front of the camera.
No one could have imagined that this immature oath would become a reality ten years later
Pan Zhanle was born in an ordinary Wenzhou family. Don't look at his parents, they are not tall, but he was caught by the swimming coach at a young age, and he was born with good swimming qualifications.
Shoulders with outstanding flexibility and an ankle at an ideal angle bode well for his future potential.
Since then, swimming has become the motivation and dream of Pan Zhanle for a living. Training day after day, from short distances to long-distance marathons, Pan Zhanle is at home in the pool water and swims freely in it.
Under the tutelage of a top coach who once coached Sun Yang, coupled with his own extraordinary talent, Pan Zhanle's swimming talent has been vividly brought into play.
In 2022, Pan Zhanle made his debut at the World Championships, and although he missed the podium, he had already equaled the domestic record in the semi-finals. In the national championships the following year, he swam an impressive record of 47.22 seconds.
Pan Zhanle, who is getting better, finally opened his 46-second mark at the Hangzhou Asian Games, and is destined to not be bound to the 47-second barrier.
At the World Championships in Doha, Pan Zhanle was invincible and won four golds. What is even more commendable is that he won the first place in the 100-meter freestyle final in a single event, tremblingly wrote an immortal world record of 46.80 seconds, and engraved himself forever in the long river of history.
In the face of foreign players who once underestimated him, Pan Zhanle admitted that the gold medal was for the Chinese: "Before they ignored me and splashed water on our coach, as if they looked down on us."
Today I took them all and did the hardest pool record right now, which is a very good performance. "
Pan Zhanle's upright words are like a little lion with teeth and claws, fierce and domineering, what are you afraid of? This may be the reason for his popularity.
The 19-year-old Pan Zhanle has actually been used by coaches since he was a child. When he was 10 years old, he won seven gold medals in the Provincial Games and was named "Little Overlord". But when asked about his ideals, he didn't forget to say arrogantly at a young age: "It's enough to be faster than Sun Yang."
The past is vivid, and the words are fulfilled one by one. Today's Pan Zhanle is not only comparable to Sun Yang, but also has left his swimming record far behind, becoming a new generation of "flying fish" idols, carrying the expectations of hundreds of millions of Chinese people.
This is destined to be a new beginning in Pan Zhanle's life and the beginning of more top-notch competitions.
He is the most extraordinary dream realizer of ordinary boys, and he is a model of brave dreaming. The future is promising, let's wait and see what this swimming kid will do next!