Marchand and Ledecky make history, Zhanle smashes his own world record

Flash and splash: China’s Pan Zhanle reacts after winning the 100m freestyle gold and setting a new world record.

FRENCH poster boy Leon Marchand and US distance dynamo Katie Ledecky made history while the Paris pool saw its first world record on one of the great nights of Olympic swimming on Wednesday.

China’s Pan Zhanle ended the programme with another firecracker, the teenager obliterating his own 100m freestyle world record to take his country’s first swimming gold of the meet.