Us Women Set World Record In Relay At Swim Worlds, While Summer Mcintosh Wins Fourth Gold

Summer McIntosh capped a superb world championships pinch nan 400 meters individual medley (IM) title and a 4th individual golden medal, while nan United States group a world grounds successful nan women’s 4x100 medley relay to triumph nan last title successful Singapore connected Sunday.

France’s Leon Marchand roared to triumph successful nan men’s 400 meters IM, while nan United States topped nan medals array pinch 9 golds, 1 much than Australia.

France vanished 3rd pinch Canada fourth, each 4 of their golds won by 18-year-old McIntosh, who missed retired connected becoming only nan 3rd swimmer to triumph 5 individual medals astatine a world championships, joining Michael Phelps (2007) and Sarah Sjostrom (2019).

McIntosh blitzed nan section successful nan 400 IM pinch a clip of 4:25.78, nan world record-holder coming location much than 7 seconds up of associated metallic medallists Jenna Forrester of Australia and Japan’s Mio Narita.

China’s 12-year-old prodigy Yu Zidi vanished conscionable disconnected nan podium again having besides travel 4th successful nan 200 IM and 200 butterfly.

Olympic champion McIntosh’s 3rd 400 IM world title added to her 200 IM, 200 butterfly and 400 freestyle golds astatine nan World Aquatics Championships Arena successful Singapore, pinch only nan 800 freestyle won by nan awesome Katie Ledecky eluding her.

The United States’ frustrating championships ended connected a precocious statement pinch a grounds successful nan women’s 4x100 medley relay successful nan past arena of nan eight-day championships. The Americans swam a clip of 3 minutes, 49.34 seconds, breaking their ain aged grounds people of 3:49.63.

The Americans battled a lawsuit of “acute gastroenteritis” picked up astatine a training campy successful Thailand. The malady intelligibly affected nan team’s up-and-down performances successful nan 8 days successful Singapore. The Americans had only 5 golden medals done six days, but won 4 successful nan past 2 arsenic squad wellness seemed to improve.

“This is nan champion measurement to extremity nan meet,” Gretchen Walsh said. “And I consciousness for illustration we person specified a bully opportunity erstwhile you person this stacked group of women closing it retired connected a relay for illustration this.

“We’re going to put it each successful nan excavation and we’re going to time off Singapore pinch a grin connected our faces,” she added.

Regan Smith, Kate Douglass and Walsh swam nan first 3 legs pinch Torri Huske taking nan anchor.

Marchand, dubbed nan “French Phelps”, astir missed nan 400 IM last aft a slow power successful nan greeting but was backmost to his champion successful nan evening, clocking 4:04.73 to decorativeness good clear of Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsushita, nan Paris Olympics runner-up down Marchand.

It was a stripped-back programme from Paris wherever Marchand won 4 individual titles but he made it count pinch nan 200 IM world grounds connected nan measurement to nan title earlier successful nan week.

Two years aft Tunisia’s Ahmed Hafnaoui won nan 800 and 1,500 freestyle astatine nan Fukuoka championships, compatriot Ahmed Jaouadi completed nan double by winning nan 1,500 successful 14:34.41 up of German Sven Schwarz and American Olympic champion Bobby Finke.

Jaouadi shaved astir 9 seconds disconnected his individual champion and said it was a struggle.

“I wasn’t nan only one. My assemblage was successful a batch of pain,” he added. “But done my mind is that I want this badge and I want to triumph it.“

The large names whitethorn predominate nan headlines but Australian relay stalwart Meg Harris grabbed nan spotlight for herself arsenic she won 50 freestyle golden successful 24.02 up of Chinese duo Wu Qingfeng (24.26) and Cheng Yujie (24.28).

The 23-year-old Harris clinched her first individual title connected nan world shape aft sharing 2 Olympic and 5 world relay golds successful nan past 4 years.

No Russian athletes competed astatine past year’s world championships successful Doha but nan nation’s swimmers person racked up medals successful Singapore nether a neutral flag.

Russians were allowed to compete connected information they person not publically supported nan penetration of Ukraine and person nary affiliation to nan Russian military.

Russian Kliment Kolesnikov stormed to nan men’s 50 backstroke title successful 23.68, conscionable 0.13 disconnected his world record, while compatriot Pavel Samusenko took a metallic on pinch South African Pieter Coetze, each finishing successful 24.17.

Russian swimmers past mixed to triumph a daze golden successful nan men’s 4x100 medley, giving nan world grounds (3:26.78) a immense shingle pinch a clip of 3:26.93, a 2nd clear of France.