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.
A Budapest court on Wednesday sentenced the former head of the Hungarian Swimming Association, Tamas Gyarfas, to seven years in prison for inciting the murder of a business rival in 1998.
Media tycoon Janos Fenyo was killed in his car with a silenced submachine gun at a busy Budapest intersection on February 11, 1998, marking one of the country’s most infamous mob hits.
The Budapest regional court found 74-year-old Gyarfas guilty of “incitement to premeditated murder”.
Day 9 at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha brought the Artistic Swimming & Diving programme to an end :(. Team China, added even more gold medals! From the Artistic Swimming Mixed Duet Free event to securing gold and silver in the Diving 10m platform. Team Australia secured their third gold of the championships! Winning the mixed 3m synchro event.
World Aquatics today confirmed that the Chinese capital will host the World Aquatics Championships – Beijing 2029, following a bidding process and careful consideration by the World Aquatics Bureau.
‘The American Dream’ is the world’s longest car that’s basically a super limo! It was built by Jay Ohrberg in 1986 and comes equipped with a swimming pool, golf putting green, and a helipad.
It’s been restored by Michael Dezer and extended to be even bigger and better. It’s so big that it can fit over 75 people inside, measuring over 100 feet in length!
We had to visit the Dezerland Park Car Museum to check out the car in Orlando, Florida. Let us know what you think of the vehicle in the comments!
Canadian teen Summer McIntosh defeated American swimming legend Katie Ledecky in the 800-meter freestyle and set a new Canadian record at the same time.
The men’s water polo group stage came to an end, here are the highlights! 4 teams already qualified for the finals, the last 4 spots will be decided in the crossovers to be played on Sunday 11th
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