Paris Olympics: China's Pan Zhanle has set a new 100m freestyle world record of 46.40, the first swimming world record of the Olympic Games 2024.
Pan touched the wall a second ahead of Australia’s Kyle Chalmers, who took silver with a time of 47.48, followed by Romania’s David Popovici in bronze-medal position with a time of 47.49.
Pan's time eclipsed his own previous record of 46.80 set in Doha in February. His gold-medal victory also represents a first-ever medal for China in the 100m freestyle.
Swimming’s most decorated Olympian, Michael Phelps, reacted to Pan’s world-record time on US broadcaster NBC, saying, "That is mind-blowing for me. I’ve never seen a win of that margin in that race in my career. And to go 46.4 - that’s unheard of! “To be that much closer to going 45 seconds in a 100 freestyle, I can’t understand that, I really can’t."
On the other hand, this is the second medal in Paris for Chalmers, who also won silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay.
Swimming’s most decorated Olympian, Michael Phelps, reacted to Pan’s world-record time on US broadcaster NBC, saying, "That is mind-blowing for me. I’ve never seen a win of that margin in that race in my career. And to go 46.4 - that’s unheard of! “To be that much closer to going 45 seconds in a 100 freestyle, I can’t understand that, I really can’t."
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