小编语:罗马游泳世界游泳锦标赛仍在如火如荼的进行中，中国选手张琳在29日进行的男子800米自由泳决赛中为中国游泳队获得了此次比赛的首块金牌，同时也创造了新的世界纪录，并将其缩短了将近6秒钟的时间，在此之前他已经在400米的比赛中夺得了一枚铜牌，真是了不起！张琳好样的！！Chinese first as Zhang crushes 800m free record



Zhang Lin made the first World Championships swimming gold for a Chinese man one to remember here on Wednesday, demolishing Aussie great Grant Hackett’s world record in winning the 800m freestyle.

Zhang sliced six-and-a-half seconds off the previous world record of 7:38.65, set by Hackett at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal. That was the first time the event was swum by men in world competition.

"I’m more than five seconds quicker than Hackett’s record and I’m still surprised," Zhang said. "I can’t believe it."

Zhang seized the lead from Tunisia’s Olympic 1500m free champion Oussama Mellouli at the 200m mark and never gave it back.

Less than three-tenths of a second separated them with 100m to go, but despite the blazing pace Zhang had enough on the final lap to pull away for a convincing victory.

Mellouli, the defending 800m free world champion, was also under Hackett’s previous world record, but his 7:35.27 was good enough only for silver.

Canadian Ryan Cochrane was third in 7:41.92.

Zhang captured 400m freestyle Olympic silver behind South Korean Park Tae-Hwan in Beijing, crediting Hackett’s former coach Denis Cotterell with helping him make his breakthrough.

Zhang went to Australia to work with Cotterell late in 2007, the first Chinese swimmer allowed to train outside the country.

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