2025 World Championships
- July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming)
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The men’s 4x200m freestyle relay was the final event of day six at the 2025 World Championships and it was a thrilling race from start to finish.
Ultimately, it was the familiar gold medalist Great Britain who topped the podium with the back-to-back Olympic champions stopping the clock at a time of 6:59.84.
Behind them was the nation of China who registered a collective result of 7:00.91 ahead of Australia who placed 3rd in an effort of 7:00.98.
China’s foursome of Ji Xinjie, Pan Zhanle, Wang Shun and Zhang Zhanshuo combined to produce a new national record and Asian record this evening.
The quartet’s performance overtook the former Chinese benchmark of 7:01.84 logged at last year’s World Championships. It also erased the former Asian record Korea put on the books en route to gold at the 2023 Asian Games.
China’s lineup in Singapore was nearly the same as that which we saw in Doha. The only difference was that Olympic medalist Wang Shun entered tonight’s roster, whereas Wang Haoyu appeared on the 2024 edition of the relay.
The fastest split of China’s team came from anchor Zhang who fired off a stellar 1:44.20, easily beating the 1:45.80 he put up in Doha.
Pan was next with the 2nd-fastest Chinese split tonight of 1:44.41. This was coming after the reigning 100m free Olympic champion and world record holder missed making the 200m free semi-finals and missed the final of the 100m free.
| China’s New Asian Record – 7:00.91 (2025 World Championships) | Korea’s Old Asian Record – 7:01.73 (2023 Asian Gams) | China’s Old National Record – 7:01.84 (2024 World Championships) |
| Ji Xinjie 1:46.22 | Yang Jae-hoon 1:46.83 | Ji Xinjie 1:46.45 |
| Pan Zhanle 1:44.41 | Lee Ho-joon 1:45.36 | Wang Haoyu 1:45.69 |
| Wang Shun 1:46.08 | Kim Woomin 1:44.50 | Pan Zhanle 1:43.90 |
| Zhang Zhanshuo 1:44.20 | Hwang Sunwoo 1:45.04 | Zhang Zhanshuo 1:45.80 |
Wang Shun had been swimming the 4x200free relay in the World Championships from 17 years old to 31 years old
I haven’t seen Wang Shun so happy for such a long time! The longevity and the happy hug with Duncan Scott makes me smile
no chn-no
Can you image if Pan focused 200? He’d split 1:41