News: Sun Yang rewrote the world record and won the gold medal in the 1500-meter freestyle (photo)

News: Sun Yang rewrote the world record and won the gold medal in the 1500-meter freestyle (photo) Sun Yang 14 minutes, 31 seconds 02,...

Sun Yang 14 minutes, 31 seconds 02, a new world record! Improving the record by nearly 4 seconds

> While Sun Yang rewrote the world record, he also won the gold medal in the men's 1500-meter freestyle!

After Sun Yang roared vigorously after winning the championship, he covered his face and cried

Canada's Cochrane won the silver medal in 14 minutes, 39 seconds and 63 seconds. Tunisia's Mailouli won the bronze medal in 14 minutes, 40 seconds and 31 seconds

London Olympic swimming competition, men's 1500 meters freestyle final, 400 meters freestyle champion Sun Yang won the championship in 14 minutes, 31 seconds and 02 seconds and broke his own world record, winning the second individual gold medal of this Olympic Games. Canada's Cochrane and the defending champion, Tunisia's Mailouli, won the silver and bronze medals in 14:39.63 and 14:40.31 respectively. South Korea's Park Tae-hwan ranked fourth in 14:50.61.

Sun Yang created Chinese men's swimming history at this Olympics. On the first day, he defeated defending champion Park Tae-hwan in the 400-meter freestyle and won the championship, winning the first gold medal in Chinese men's swimming Olympic history. Since then, Sun Yang and Park Tae-hwan tied for runner-up in the 200-meter freestyle, and led the Chinese men's 4.00-meter freestyle relay to win the bronze medal.

>In the 1500-meter freestyle, Sun Yang will hit his second gold medal in this Olympics. In the preliminaries, Sun Yang won the first place in the group with a time of 14 minutes, 43 seconds and 25 seconds. The defending champion, Tunisia's Mailouli, finished second in the group with a time of 14 minutes, 46 seconds and 23 seconds. In another group, Canadian star Cochrane topped the group with 14 minutes, 49 seconds and 31 seconds, followed by Park Tae-hwan with 14 minutes, 56 seconds and 89 seconds. Another Chinese player, Dai Jun, swam in 15 minutes, 13 seconds and 90 seconds, ranking sixth in the group. In the overall ranking of the preliminaries, Sun Yang ranked first, Mailuli second, Cochrane third, Italy's Partilini and Britain's Fogle fourth and fifth, Park Tae-hwan ranked sixth, and Dai Jun was eliminated.

In the final, Sun Yang was in lane 4, Mailuli was in lane 5, Cochran was in lane 3, and Park Tae-hwan was in lane 7. After everyone was in position, the starting gun did not go off. Sun Yang jumped into the water. After restarting, Sun Yang entered the water smoothly. At 50 meters, Park Tae-hwan was in the first place, Sun Yang followed closely, and Cochrane was third. When he swam to 100 meters, Sun Yang passed the first place, followed by Park Tae-hwan. From then on, Sun Yang began to lead the swim, leading Park Tae-hwan by 0.69 seconds in 200 meters.

Sun Yang gradually expanded his advantage according to his own rhythm, pressing the yellow line of his world record behind him. By the 300 meters, he was 1.04 seconds ahead of Park Tae-hwan, while Cochrane was still in third place. At 400 meters, Sun Yang still led Park Tae-hwan by 0.77 seconds. He swam very smoothly and the positions of the top three did not change. At 500 meters, Sun Yang expanded his advantage to more than 1 second.

As the game progressed, Sun Yang's advantage became more and more obvious. At 600 meters, he was leading Park Tae-hwan by more than 2 seconds, nearly a half-length away, and at 700 meters, he was 3.55 seconds ahead of Park Tae-hwan. At the half-way mark of 750 meters, Cochrane rose to second place, but Sun Yang was already far ahead.

When swimming to 900 meters, Sun Yang was 4.22 seconds ahead of Cochrane, and the lead was unshakable. Entering the second half, Sun Yang became even more unstoppable, Park Taihwan had fallen to fourth, and Mailuli rose to third. Sun Yang swam alone at the front, leaving all his opponents far away, keeping the world record yellow line behind him. For Sun Yang, winning the championship is no longer a problem. The only suspense is whether he can break his own world record.

Entering the last 100 meters, Sun Yang began to increase his speed, and the world record line could no longer catch up with his speed. Sun Yang swam in desperately and sprinted with all his strength, still maintaining a good rhythm. Breaking the world record and winning the championship, Sun Yang's final time was 14 minutes, 31 seconds and 02 seconds, winning his second individual gold medal in this Olympic Games. Cochrane and Mailuli won the runner-up and third place respectively in 14 minutes, 39 seconds and 14 minutes, 40 seconds and 31 seconds respectively. Park Tae-hwan only ranked fourth in 14 minutes, 50 seconds and 61 seconds.