Pan Zhanle broke the men’s 100m freestyle world record leading off China’s gold medal-winning 4x100m free relay team to open the world swimming championships on Sunday.
Pan, 19, split 46.80 seconds, taking six hundredths off Romanian David Popovici’s world record from 2022.
China led wire-to-wire to win the relay by one second over Italy. The U.S. took bronze without its top 100m freestyles.
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