Pan Zhanle Resets 100 Free World Record In 46.80, McIntosh Ends Ledecky’s Streak With 8:11 800 Free

swin @) swan Pan Powers Past Popovici: Pan Zhanle kicked the 2024 World Championships off on the right foot on Sunday, breaking the world record in the men's 100 free leading off China's 400 free relay. Also: All of the highlights through the first two nights in Doha, Summer McIntosh drops a monster 8:11 800 free to top Ledecky and rank #2 all-time, and Audrey Derivaux sets a NAG Record for 13-14 girls. PAN ZHANLE BLITZES 46.80 100 FREE FOR NEW WORLD RECORD After the world record in the men's 100 freestyle stood for 13 years, it's now been broken twice in the last 18 months. On Sunday, Pan Zhanle blasted his way to a time of 46.80 in the event leading off the Chinese men's 400 free relay at the 2024 World Championships in Doha, breaking the world record of 46.86 established by Romania's David Popovici in August 2022. Pan, 19, came in with a lifetime best of 46.97, set at the Asian Games last September which made him the fifth man under the 47-second barrier and also marked a new Asian and Chinese Record before his swim on Sunday. Pan, Popovici and American Caeleb Dressel are the only three swimmers in history to have broken 47 seconds in a textile suit, while Cesar Cielo and Alain Bernard did so in the super-suits back in 2009. Cielo's mark of 46.91 from the 2009 World Championships was the longstanding record that Popovici took down at the 2022 European Championships. All-Time Performers, Men's 100 Free (LCM) 1. Pan Zhanle, China – 46.80 (2024) 2. David Popovici, Romania — 46.86 (2022) 3. Cesar Cielo, Brazil — 46.91 (2009) 4. Alain Bernard, France — 46.94 (2009) 5. Caeleb Dressel, USA – 46.96 (2019) Popovici was just 17 when he broke the record, while Pan is still a teenager himself at 19 and will turn 20 shortly after the Paris Olympics. Pan was well off his best and failed to advance to the semis of the 200 free on Monday, but will be back in the water on Wednesday morning with the prelims of the 100 free. U.S. HITS FOUR GOLD, CHINA & SOUTH KOREA HAVE TWO APIECE THROUGH DAY 3 IN DOHA The United States extended its lead in the medal table on Day 3 of pool swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, sweeping the men's and women's 100 back to bring its gold medal tally to four through three days of racing. * Day 1 Finals Live Recap * Day 2 Finals Live Recap * Day 3 Finals Live Recap On Day 2, Nic Fink won gold in the men's 100 breaststroke for the first time in his career, following up on back-to-back silvers in 2022 and 2023 by clocking 58.57 to top 2022 world champion Nicolo Martinenghi (58.84) and reigning two-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty (59.10). At the end of Monday's session, Kate Douglass roared to a repeat gold in the women's 200 IM, inching under her personal best time in 2:07.05 to mark the 11th-fastest swim in history. On Tuesday, Americans Claire Curzan (58.29) and Hunter Armstrong (52.68) won the 100 backstrokes in successive heats to bring the American gold medal haul to four. Sitting with two golds through three days of racing is South Korea, who had Kim Woomin win an upset title in the men's 400 free (3:42.71) on the opening night and then Hwang Sunwoo roared to gold in the men's 200 free (1:44.75) on Tuesday after he won silver in 2022 and bronze in 2023. China joined South Korea with a second gold medal on Day 3, as Tang Qianting dominated the final of the women's 100 breast in a time of 1:05.32, tying Ji Liping's Chinese Record from 2009. The other gold medal for China came on the opening night in the men's 400 free relay, as Pan led off in that world record and Ji Xinjie, Zhang Zahnshuo and Wang Haoyu followed as the Chinese team won by exactly one second in 3:11.08. In the men's 50 fly on Day 2, 19-year-old Diogo Ribeiro won gold in a time of 22.97, becoming Portugal's first swimming world champion. Also winning gold thus far are Erika Fairweather with a new Kiwi National Record in the women's 400 free (3:59.44), Italian Simona Quadarella with her second world title in the women's 1500 free (15:46.99), Germany's Angelina Köhler in the women's 100 fly (56.28) and the Dutch quartet of Kim Busch, Janna van Kooten, Kira Toussaint and Marrit Steenbergen in the women's 400 free relay. MCINTOSH HANDS LEDECKY FIRST 800 FREE LOSS SINCE 2010, ROCKETS TO #2 ALL-TIME Summer McIntosh continued to establish herself as the world's best swimmer at last week's Southern Zone Sectional Championships in Orlando. On the opening night of racing on Thursday, McIntosh went head-to-head with Katie Ledecky and handed her something no one had done since she was 13: a loss in the 800 freestyle. McIntosh powered to a time of 8:11.39 in the event, pulling away from Ledecky (8:17.12) on the back-half to become the 2nd-fastest performer in history. Also Read: * McIntosh's 800 Free Stuns In More Ways Than One * Yes, Katie Ledecky's 800 FR Streak Has Ended – But She Has An Even Longer One * Should Summer McIntosh Swim The 800 Free At The Paris Olympics? McIntosh's previous best time stood at 8:20.19, which ranked her 33rd all-time. With her seismic drop, she obliterated Canada's National mark of 8:20.02 set by Brittany MacLean—who like McIntosh, is a product of the Etobicoke Swim Club—in 2014. The 17-year-old McIntosh also chopped more than two seconds off the Commonwealth Record of 8:13.59 held by Australian Ariarne Titmus, joining Ledecky as the only women ever under 8:12 or 8:13 to boot. All-Time Top Performers, Women’s 800 Free (LCM) 1. Katie Ledecky, United States — 8:04.79 (2016) 2. Summer McIntosh, Canada — 8:11.39 (2024) 3. Li Bingjie, China — 8:13.31 (2023) 4. Ariarne Titmus, Australia — 8:13.59 (2022/2023) 5. Rebecca Adlington, Great Britain — 8:14.10 (2008) McIntosh didn't contest any of her primary events at the meet, opting for some 'off' events over the weekend, setting new bests in the 50 free, 200 breast and 100 back. * 50 free – 25.54 * 100 free – 54.48 * 200 breast – 2:27.23 * 100 back – 59.64 (relay lead-off) * 100 free relay split – 54.34 Ledecky went on to win the women's 400 free (4:02.39) and clocked 1:56.00 in the heats of the 200 free before scratching the final. AUDREY DERIVAUX CRUSHES GIRLS' 13-14 200 FLY NAG RECORD IN 1:54.33 Not to be outdone by the record swims we've seen at the senior level in recent days, Audrey Derivaux unloaded the fastest swim we've ever seen from a 14 & under girl in the 200 fly (SCY) on Saturday. Competing at the Jersey Wahoos' "Sweetheart" meet, Derivaux clocked 1:54.33 in the 200 fly prelims to shatter the girls' 13-14 National Age Group Record, knocking nearly a full second off the previous mark of 1:55.29 set by Tess Howley in 2019. Derivaux backed up her swim in the final, narrowly missing her newly-minted record in 1:54.33. The 14-year-old had come within striking distance of Howley's record at the Winter Junior Championships in December, touching in 1:55.90. Derivaux also set new personal bests in the 200 free (1:48.89), 500 free (4:47.00), 100 back (53.58) and 200 IM (1:56.34) at the meet, with the 200 IM putting her just 14 one-hundredths shy of Alex Walsh's NAG record from 2015 (1:56.20) and ranking #2 all-time in the age group. Coming in, Derivaux ranked 3rd behind Walsh and Regan Smith (1:56.69) with her previous PB of 1:56.73. QUICK HITS * Boston College swimmer Katrina Sommer spoke out on the blanket suspension handed to the program for the entirety of the 2023-24 season, voicing her confusion and disappointment in the lack of transparency from athletics. * Retired Australian world champion and Olympic medalist James Magnussen said he would "juice to the gills" to break the world record in the men's 50 free if offered $1 million by the Enhanced Games. * Leon Marchand's coaches have lobbied for an Olympic schedule change that would alleviate the conflict that exists between the men's 200 breast and 200 fly. * World record holder Sun Yang remains in the testing pool and is training every day despite it appearing as though he has no path to qualification for the Paris Olympics. * Ahmed Hafnaoui has applied for a visa so he can return to the United States and train in California, having returned to his native Tunisia prior to the 2024 World Championships. * Tickets have started to sell, but there is still a significant amount available to fill Lucas Oil Stadium for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. * Alex Shackell and Lynsey Bowen set records to lead Carmel High School to its 38th consecutive IHSAA State Championship title on Saturday. * A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional director ruled last week that Dartmouth College basketball players, putting the NCAA's amateurism model at risk. * SwimSwam's Top 100 For 2024 lists are final: * See the women's top 10 here * See the men's top 10 here * Keep tabs on all of our NCAA conference championship previews here. 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