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EFE
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The Chinese Pan Zhanle established a new world record in the 800 freestyle of the 25-meter pool swimming World Cup that concluded this Saturday in Incheon (South Korea), where Frenchman Leon Marchand added his third victory in the 400 medley test.
Pan Zhanle, who in the final of The 100 freestyle at the Paris Games achieved gold with a new world record, By lowering his own mark by 40 hundredths (46.40), he once again achieved a new record in this case in short pool with a time of 7:35.30 in the distance of 800.
The last day of the Incheon World Cup included a new victory for Frenchman Léon Marchand, which is added to those achieved in the 100 and 200 medleys. The quadruple Olympic champion in Paris won this Saturday in the 400 medley, with a time of 3:58.30, which improves its own French record set a week ago in Shanghai (4:00.03).
The final day of Incheon also included the victories of the Swiss Noe Ponti in the 50 butterfly (21.76), the South African Piete Coetze in the 100 backstroke (49.33), the Chinese Haiyang Qin in the 200 breaststroke (2:02.57) and the British Duncan Scott in the 200 freestyle (1:40.29).
In the women’s category, the Finnish Laura Latinen won the 100 butterfly (55.76), the American Regan Smith in the 200 backstroke (1:59.60), the Chinese Qianting Tang in the 50 breaststroke (29:03), the Hong Konger Siobhan Hughey in the 100 freestyle ( 51.73) and China’s Yiting Yu in the 200 butterfly (2:04.73).
In the absence of the last round of the World Cup, from October 31 to November 2 in Singapore, Marchand leads the World Cup classification, closely followed by the Swiss Noè Ponti.
The women’s classification is headed by the American Regan Smith, since yesterday with a new world record in the 100 backstroke, and second place goes to her compatriot Kate Douglas, also the record holder in Incheon in the 200 breaststroke.
