Two generations of flying fish in the Chinese swimming world met at the 2025 National Championship 400, and there will be two subsequent dialogues

Sun Yang, the former king of world freestyle and Chinese swimmer, met Pan Zhanle, the gold medalist of the 2024 Paris Olympics, at the 2025 National Swimming Championships on the evening of the 17th Beijing time. The two competed in the men's 400-meter freestyle preliminary round that morning and both advanced; In the evening, they faced off in the final, and in the end, Pan Zhanle won the gold medal in 3 minutes 45.34 seconds, and Sun Yang won the bronze medal.

Sun Yang

The National Championships are the qualifying event for this year's World Aquatics Championships and the 15th National Games. Sun Yang made a full comeback at last year's national competition, and this time he also signed up for the men's 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle. Poon Chin-lok, who shone at the Paris Olympics, registered for the 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle.

Pan Zhanle

Pan Zhanle talked about his future goals in an interview when he was a child, he said that "as long as he swims faster than Sun Yang", the two went head-to-head today, he showed his youthful capital, and finally swam 3 minutes 45.34 seconds to win the gold, 0.23 seconds faster than the runner-up Fei Liwei, and Sun Yang won the bronze in 3 minutes 47.53 seconds, 2.19 seconds slower than Pan Zhanle.

Pan Zhanle

Sun Yang said in an interview after the game: "The old and the new are together, which means that the Chinese swimming heritage can be better. According to the schedule, Sun Yang and Pan Zhanle will meet again in the men's 100m and 200m freestyle later.