Pan Zhanle

Pan Zhanle is a Chinese freestyle swimmer, born on 4 August 2004. He won the 100 metre freestyle at the 2024 Summer Olympics, breaking his own world record, and also won gold in the 4x100 metre medley relay, where he swam the fastest 100 metre freestyle split in history. At the 2024 World Aquatics Championships he broke the world record in the 100 metre freestyle as the lead-off swimmer of the 4x100 metre freestyle relay and then won the individual 100 metre freestyle. Before that he broke the Asian record in the event, with 47.22 at the 2023 Chinese National Championships and 46.97 at the 2023 Asian Games. He was already winning national titles as a teenager, taking the 1500 metre freestyle at the 2019 Chinese Summer National Championships at the age of 14.