2024 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – SINGAPORE
- Thursday, October 31st – Saturday, November 2nd
- OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore
- Prelims at 9:30am local (9:30pm ET previous night)/Finals at 6:30pm local (6:30am ET)
- SCM (25m)
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It was a spicy men’s 200m freestyle final tonight in Singapore to wrap up the final stop of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup series.
British Olympic multi-medalist Duncan Scott fired off a new British and Commonwealth Record of 1:39.83 en route to beating a stacked field which included 4-time Olympic champion Leon Marchand of France and 100m free Olympic gold medalist Pan Zhanle of China.
While Marchand settled for silver in 1:40.91, 20-year-old Pan produced a new lifetime best of 1:41.59 for bronze.
Pan’s effort represents a new Chinese national record, overwriting the previous standard of 1:42.31 Ji Xinjie put on the books at the 2018 Short Course World Championships.
Entering this competition, Pan’s previous personal best rested at the 1:42.66 logged at the 2022 Chinese National Championships.
| Pan’s New 1:41.59 Chinese Record | Ji’s Previous 1:42.31 Chinese Record |
| 49.08 | 50.04 |
| 52.51 | 52.27 |
Pan has been impressively demonstrating his prowess across multiple freestyle distances across this 2024 World Cup series.
At the 2nd stop in Incheon, Pan upset a solid men’s 400m free field to capture the gold in 3:36.43.
During that same competition, Pan blasted a time of 7:45.30 to win the 800m free, establishing a new World Cup record in the process.
Men’s 200 Free in Singapore
MEN’S 200M FREESTYLE – FINALS
- World Record: 1:39.37 – Paul Biedermann, GER (2009)
- World Cup Record: 1:39.37 – Paul Biedermann, GER (2009)
- World Junior Record: 1:40.65 – Matthew Sates, RSA (2021)
RESULTS:
- Duncan Scott (Great Britain) – 1:39.83
- Leon Marchand (France) – 1:40.91
- Pan Zhanle (China) – 1:41.59
- Danas Rapsys (Lithuania) – 1:42.31
- Kieran Smith (USA) – 1:42.56
- Edward Sommerville (Australia) – 1:42.68
- Rafael Miroslaw (Germany) – 1:43.06
- Thomas Ceccon (Italy) – 1:46.65
It’s a huge ask for a LCM elite swimmer, even as a 100 free WR holder, to outswim a field where others excelled in swimming longer distance underwater. SCM is more about swiftness of turns and explosiveness at start than en route DPS and 200 free is the very event that amplifies such phenomena.
In that regard, Pan accomplished his goal of not only using the World Cup series for his aerobic fitness training but improving on his self-admitted flaws of turns. He also thinks his starts and underwaters are room for improvement.
All in all, not a bad day in the waters – short course style. Successful practice run. Also settled some of the fans’ curiosity of how well he could do in the 200, 400 – and beyond most of our expectations, the 800 internationally beyond the national meets and Asian Games.
Unless you are muscular and have a super suit where you can just cruise the first 150m and sprint home last 50m to break a WR :p
He should go ask the dolphin himself Leon Marchand to teach him underwaters
You either have it or you don’t. Same idea with some IM swimmers getting smacked in a specific stroke. People’s body just moves differently in the water
Fixed mindset.
Better ask Ponti
Might be the only person with the 100/200/400/800 SCM A-cuts this season?
It is crazy that he has lost his six pack and has a little tummy now with only 2 months away from swimming considering the fact that his normal training load was 6x15km 90 km per week before Paris.