PARIS, July 31 (Xinhua) -- China's Pan Zhanle set a new world record as he stormed to victory in the men's 100m freestyle at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
Pan touched the wall in 46.40 seconds, more than a second ahead of Australian Kyle Chalmers, who took silver.
Romania's David Popovici claimed bronze, one hundredth of a second further back.
Pan's time eclipsed his own previous record of 46.80 set in Doha worlds in February.
