China’s Pan Zhanle backed up his world report within the relays with a victory all his personal Thursday, whereas American Claire Curzan grew to become the primary swimmer to assert two particular person gold medals on a starring evening for youngsters on the World Aquatics Championships.
The 19-year-old Pan received the lads’s 100-meter freestyle at Aspire Dome, 4 days after swimming the quickest two laps in historical past with a time of 46.80 seconds within the lead-off leg of China’s gold medal-winning 4×100 free relay crew.
He didn’t go fairly as quick the second time round, but it surely was ok for gold. Pan touched in 47.53 to stamp himself as one of many high contenders heading to the Paris Olympics.
