2023 CHINESE NATIONALS
- May 1st – May 8th
- LCM (50m)
- World Championships Qualifier
- Results via Asian Media
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap
Just three days after ripping a new Chinese national and Asian continental record in the men’s 100m free, 18-year-old Pan Zhanle came close to producing a new record in the 200m free.
Competing on day four of the 2023 Chinese Nationals, Pan produced a time of 1:44.65 to take the men’s 2free. Behind him was Wang Shun who touched in 1:45.71 while Hong Jinquan rounded out the top 3 in 1:46.67.
The Chinese national record stands at the 1:44.39 Sun Yang put on the books in 2017 so Pan’s effort this evening fell just.26 off of that mark to become the nation’s just 2nd man ever to delve under the 1:45 barrier.
Top 5 Chinese Men’s LCM 200 Freestyle Performers
- Sun Yang – 1:44.39, 2017
- Pan Zhanle – 1:44.65, 2023
- Ji Xinjie – 1:45.48, 2019
- Zhang Lin – 1:45.83, 2019
- Wang Shun – 1:46.14, 2011
Splits for Pan’s time include 24.56/26.73 (51.29)/27.30/26.06 to get the job done, ranking as the #1 swimmer in the world now on the season. The teen takes over the crown from another Asian teen, South Korea’s Hwang Sunwoo who previously led the world with his 1:44.67 from October.
2022-2023 LCM Men 200 Free
Richards
1:44.30
| 2 | Thomas Dean | GBR | 1:44.32 | 07/25 |
| 3 | Sunwoo Hwang | KOR | 1:44.41 | 07/25 |
| 4 | Pan Zhanle | CHN | 1:44.65 | 05/04 |
| 5 | David Popovici | ROU | 1:44.70 | 07/24 |
中国水泳選手権（全国游泳冠军赛）
男子200Fr
潘展楽(Pan Zhanle) 1:44.65
汪順(Wang Shun) 1:45.71
洪金権(Hong Jinquan) 1:46.67
張子揚(Zhang Ziyang) 1:46.77100Frでアジア記録を出した潘展楽が200でも好記録！ファン・ソンウを上回って今季世界ランク1位。汪順は45秒台。上位4人全員自己ベスト pic.twitter.com/bXfWNdFtM5
— 競泳NEWS (@swimcoverage) May 4, 2023
Engering these national championships, according to the World Aquatics database, Pan’s personal best rested at the 1:48.53 produced two years ago. Earlier in this meet Pan posted a split of 1:46.86 on his squad’s men’s 4x200m free relay. That already gave some leverage to the idea the Chinese men were getting their groove back in that relay event. But now, with his 1:44.65, things are taken up yet another notch.
Ye Shiwen went 2:22.44 in the 200 breast
Australian coach Dennis has gone to China. He is now in charge of Pan and Fei these zhejiang swimmers.I think his joining will be helpful to these zhejiang swimmers, just as he helped Sun Yang at that time.Most of the records were set by zhejiang swimmers.By the way, Pan’s Chinese coach is also in charge of Sun Yang with Dennis from 2014 to 2018
Just shows how good Thorpe was swimming these times & better more than 20 years ago.
He was born in the Popovici era. Not lucky.
Love that we have a new collection of guys who are elite in the 100 & 200 ala Van Den Hoogenband. There was a long stretch where the 100 had shifted towards pure power/speed athletes (Cielo, Sullivan, Bernard, Dressel) now we’re back in a middle ground. McEvoy and Chalmers could dabble in the 200 when they were at the peak of their powers in the 100, but never raced it seriously intentionally, now we have Popovici, Pan Zhanle, Hwang Sunwoo, Matt Richards, with a few others right on the edge of that conversation.
Is Sun Yang’s just the Chinese record or also the Asian record?
Both
The young guys have to go sub-1:45 because the older generation wasn’t able to do so as a collective for almost a decade.
Pan is the 10th swimmer under 1.45 in the last two years. Six of them were born in years beginning with a 2.
Gotta love this 200 free revival after years of relative drought
And even the ones born before 2000 are no older than from 1997…