Mcintosh Wins Fourth Gold, Medley Double For Marchand

Olympic champions Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand claimed golden medals successful nan women's and men's 400m individual medley astatine nan 2025 World Aquatics Championships successful Singapore.

Teenager McIntosh won her 4th golden badge of nan week arsenic she vanished much than 7 seconds clear of metallic medallist Jenna Forrester connected Sunday pinch a title grounds clip of 4 minutes 25.78 seconds.

Earlier this week, nan 18-year-old took golden successful nan 400m freestyle, 200m butterfly and 200m medley, arsenic good arsenic bronze successful nan 800m freestyle connected Saturday.

McIntosh - who holds world records successful some nan 200m and 400m medley and nan 400m freestyle - won 3 golden medals and a metallic astatine her first Olympics past summer.

Great Britain's Freya Colbert came past aft qualifying for nan last arsenic nan eighth-best swimmer successful nan heats.

Frenchman Marchand scraped done successful nan men's 400m medley heats pinch a sluggish performance, but recovered to triumph golden successful 4:04:73 - almost 4 seconds up of metallic medallist Tomoyuki Matsushita.

The 23-year-old Paris Games leader group a caller world grounds successful winning golden successful nan men's 200m individual medley connected Thursday, but was 2 seconds awkward of breaking nan 400m world grounds he group astatine nan 2023 World Championships.

Max Litchfield vanished seventh, capping a disappointing week for Team GB.

Marchand later helped France return metallic successful nan men's 4x100m medley relay, arsenic Team GB vanished sixth.

The USA group a caller world grounds successful nan women's 4x100m medley relay pinch a clip of 3:49.34, while Britain came last.

There was a golden badge for Tunisia's Ahmed Jaouadi successful nan men's 1500m freestyle, adding to nan 20-year-old's triumph successful nan 800m freestyle earlier this week.

Olympic metallic medalist Meg Harris won nan women's 50m freestyle, while Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte retained her 50m breaststroke pinch a clip of 29.55.

Kliment Kolesnikov won golden successful nan men's 50m backstroke pinch 23:68, though he fell much than a 2nd short of nan world grounds he group 3 years ago.

In nan last diving arena of nan week, Britain's Robbie Lee came 12th successful nan men's 10m level arsenic Cassiel Rousseau of Australia took gold.

Great Britain enjoyed a difficult week successful Singapore, winning conscionable 5 medals, including 1 gold.

While unwellness has caused issues successful nan camp, GB's capacity head Chris Spice does not want that to beryllium an excuse.

"We don't effort to dwell connected that. You only person to look astatine immoderate of our relay selections successful nan past mates of days to spot immoderate of nan group who mightiness person been affected by that," he told BBC Sport.

"We're not staying adjacent to different teams, we've tried to minimise nan consequence of transferring thing betwixt teams.

"But of people you're successful a heated situation pinch group each adjacent to each other. It's earthy that location is going to beryllium immoderate unwellness around. That's what it is. We conscionable put our heads down and effort and get connected pinch it."

There has been a batch of alteration some successful nan h2o and down nan scenes for British Swimming, thing Spice felt contributed to an underwhelming week.

"We've had 3 British records present arsenic opposed to 2 past year. Underneath nan bonnet, things aren't bad," he added.

"We deliberation we've sewage nan champion harvest of juniors we've had successful nan past 4 aliases 5 years. Hopefully arsenic we get towards LA [2028 Olympic Games], those 2 things will travel together and nan results will commencement to come.

"We've sewage a very young team, we've sewage 8 group present astatine their first World Championships. There are a batch of newbies, location is simply a batch of learning going on.

"There were missed opportunities this week, we near 2 aliases 3 medals connected nan table.

"We've sewage a caller caput coach, a caller squad manager. The caput of sports subject and medicine has gone crossed to diving. We're each learning astir each different and request clip to furniture in."