HANGZHOU, China, May 1 (Xinhua) — China’s rising star Pan Zhanle broke the lads’s 100m freestyle Asian report on the swimming nationwide championships in Hangzhou right here on Monday.
Pan, 18, led all the way in which to win the 100m free in 47.22 seconds, 0.34 seconds sooner than the outdated Asian report. Wang Haoyu was second in 48.15, whereas Chen Juner got here third in 48.94.
“It is beyond my expectation,” mentioned Pan. “My time was always around 47.50 in training.”
Pan’s end result ranked first within the occasion’s world rankings this yr, beating world champion David Popovici’s yr better of 47.61 made on the Romanian nationwide championships in April.
“I hope I can be one of the world best swimmers and compete with David Popovici one day,” he added.
Pan had damaged the short-course 100m free Asian report on the brief course swimming worlds in Melbourne final yr.
In the ladies’s 200m butterfly, Olympic champion Zhang Yufei grabbed the gold in 2:07.99, which was far behind her coaching time. Yu Liyan got here second in 2:08.33, whereas Zhang Yipan was third in 2:09.79.
“My coach and I had expected a time around 2:05.00,” mentioned Zhang, who received the ladies’s 200m butterfly and 4x200m freestyle relay Olympic golds at Tokyo 2020.
In the lads’s 200m medley, Tokyo Olympic champion Wang Shun led all the way in which to the gold in 1:55.55. Qin Haiyang completed second in 1:57.79.
Two-time males’s 100m backstroke world champion Xu Jiayu additionally confirmed his power in his signature occasion as he timed 52.47 to win the 100m again.
Li Bingjie claimed the ladies’s 1,500m freestyle in 15:51.21.
Also on Monday, Tang Qianting touched first in 30.88 to win the ladies’s 50m breaststroke, whereas Team Zhejiang received the ladies’s 4x100m freestyle relay with 3:38.07.
The nationwide championships, operating from May 1 to six, additionally serves as a qualifier for the swimming worlds in Fukuoka, Japan in July and the Hangzhou Asian Games in September.