By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
2025 World Championships
July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming)
Singapore, Singapore
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DAY 5 FINALS HEAT SHEET
Occasion Schedule:
Girls’s 200 fly remaining
Girls’s 100 free semi-finals
Males’s 200 IM remaining
Males’s 100 free remaining
Girls’s 200 breast remaining
Girls’s 50 again remaining
Males’s 200 breast semi-finals
Males’s 200 again semi-finals
Girls’s 4×200 free relay remaining
After wowing the gang with a surprising world report efficiency on Wednesday, all eyes might be on Leon Marchand tonight because the Frenchman vies to reclaim his world title within the remaining of the lads’s 200 IM.
Marchand, who dropped the 200 breast and 200 fly from his program and thus hadn’t raced in any respect in Singapore till the 200 IM heats on Tuesday morning, rocketed to a time of 1:52.69 in final night time’s semis, obliterating Ryan Lochte‘s world report of 1:54.00 set in 2011.
Marchand might be racing the clock in tonight’s remaining, whereas American Shaine Casas and Nice Britain’s Duncan Scott should be thought-about the frontrunners for the rostrum after each logging 1:55s within the semis, with nobody else within the subject sub-1:57.
The session will kick off with the ultimate of the ladies’s 200 fly, the place Summer season McIntosh has an opportunity to win the world title within the occasion for the third time after additionally claiming gold in 2022 and 2023. The 18-year-old Canadian might be aiming to maintain her excellent report intact at these championships, having already gained gold within the 400 free and 200 IM as she pursues an unprecedented 5 particular person titles.
Her largest challenger figures to be American Regan Smith, who can be the highest seed for the ladies’s 50 again remaining later within the session, whereas the primary qualifier coming into the 200 fly is Australian Elizabeth Dekkers, who was a last-minute substitute on the Aussie roster however is benefiting from her alternative.
One other headlining race on the docket this night is the ultimate of the lads’s 100 freestyle, which surprisingly gained’t embody world report holder and reigning Olympic and world champion Pan Zhanle, who ended up tenth in Wednesday’s semis after seven of the eight remaining qualifiers got here out of the second warmth (and Pan was third within the first warmth).
Jack Alexy (46.81) broke the American File to steer the sphere within the semis, whereas former world report holder and 2022 world champion David Popovici (46.84) was shut behind to advance 2nd, and 2023 world champion Kyle Chalmers (47.36) seemed easy in successful the primary semi and qualifying 4th general.
Together with the ladies’s 50 again, the place Smith and American teammate Katharine Berkoff are the highest two favorites for gold, with Nice Britain’s Lauren Cox additionally within the combine after a powerful swim within the semis, we’ll additionally see the ultimate of the ladies’s 4×200 free relay tonight.
The Australians have gained the relay on the final two best-on-best competitions, the 2023 World Championships and 2024 Olympics, however China is available in because the defending world champions and the People gained the world title as not too long ago as 2022.
McIntosh is notably not slated to swim the relay for the Canadian crew tonight, whereas the top-qualifying U.S. squad might be utilizing Claire Weinstein, Anna Peplowski, Erin Gemmell and Katie Ledecky, whereas the Aussies will anchor with Mollie O’Callaghan.
Full Relay Lineups
Along with the 5 finals, we’ll additionally see semis within the girls’s 100 free and 200 breast, and the lads’s 200 again and 200 breast, in tonight’s session. Australian Olivia Wunsch scratched out of the ladies’s 100 free semis because of an undisclosed sickness, shifting in Nice Britain’s Freya Anderson.
Gretchen Walsh scratched out of the ladies’s 100 free previous to prelims, as did Josh Matheny within the males’s 200 breast, indicating the American crew remains to be coping with abdomen sickness.
WOMEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – FINAL
World File: 2:01.81, Liu Zige (CHN) – 2009
World Junior File: 2:03.03, Summer season McIntosh (CAN) – 2024
Championship File: 2:03.41, Jessicah Schipper (AUS) – 2009
2023 World Champion: Summer season McIntosh (CAN), 2:04.06
2024 Olympic Champion: Summer season McIntosh (CAN), 2:03.03
Summer season McIntosh (CAN), 2:01.99 CR
Regan Smith (USA), 2:04.99
Elizabeth Dekkers (AUS), 2:06.12
Yu Zidi (CHN), 2:06.43
Helena Rosendahl Bach (DEN), 2:07.47
Caroline Bricker (USA), 2:07.59
Emily Richards (GBR), 2:07.99
Ellen Walshe (IRL), 2:08.34
Regardless of clearly not being proud of the time, Summer season McIntosh dominated the ladies’s 200 butterfly like we’ve by no means seen earlier than.
The 18-year-old demolished the sphere en path to successful her third world title within the occasion in a time of two:01.99, turning into the second girl in historical past below the two:02 barrier and the primary to take action in a textile go well with.
McIntosh took down her personal Commonwealth, Americas and Canadian File of two:02.26, set earlier this yr, and lowered the super-suited Championship File of two:03.41 set by Jessicah Schipper in 2009.
McIntosh’s Splits: 27.22/31.19/31.59/31.99
Regardless of successful gold by three seconds, the largest margin the occasion has seen on the World Championships since 1973, McIntosh was upset she didn’t take down Liu Zige‘s vaunted world report of two:01.81, which has been on the books since 2009 and hasn’t been challenged till McIntosh clocked 2:02.26 on the Canadian Trials in June.
Including McIntosh’s Olympic File of two:03.03 from final summer time to her current 2:01.9 and a couple of:02.2 swims, she now holds 4 of the 5 quickest instances ever.
All-Time Performances, Girls’s 200 Butterfly (LCM)
Liu Zige (CHN), 2:01.81 – 2009
Summer season McIntosh (CAN), 2:01.99 – 2025
Summer season McIntosh (CAN), 2:02.26 – 2025
Summer season McIntosh (CAN), 2:03.03 – 2024
Jessicah Schipper (AUS), 2:03.41 – 2009
McIntosh has now gained the 200 fly at 4 straight best-on-best main worldwide meets, incomes repeat world titles in 2022 and 2023, successful Olympic gold in 2024, after which reclaiming the world title right here in Singapore.
American Regan Smith was a distant runner-up in 2:04.99, battling again to overhaul Elizabeth Dekkers on the final 50 after Dekkers had moved into 2nd place on the third 50.
Dekkers, who was a late addition to the Aussie roster after initially lacking the crew, picked up the bronze medal in a time of two:06.12, one one-hundredth faster than she was within the semis for a brand new season-best.
Twelve-year-old sensation Yu Zidi continued to marvel by shifting up from eighth place on the 100-meter mark to put 4th in 2:06.43, knocking four-tenths off her private greatest set in Might.
WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – SEMI-FINALS
World File: 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) – 2017
World Junior File: 52.70, Penny Oleksiak (CAN) – 2016
Championship File: 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) – 2017
2023 World Champion: Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS), 52.16
2024 Olympic Champion: Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 52.16
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
Marrit Steenbergen (NED), 52.81
Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS), 52.82
Daria Klepikova (NAB), 53.14
Torri Huske (USA), 53.21
Cheng Yujie (CHN), 53.34
Beryl Gastaldello (ITA), 53.36
Sara Curtis (ITA), 53.39
Milou Van Wijk (NED), 53.51
Marrit Steenbergen and Mollie O’Callaghan seemed absolutely in management as each girls comfortably gained their respective semi-finals within the 100 freestyle, cruising into tomorrow’s remaining with the highest two seeds.
They have been the one two swimmers to interrupt 53 seconds, with Steenbergen kicking issues off with a clocking of 52.81 within the first semi, 4 one-hundredths shy of her season-best.
O’Callaghan adopted by trumping the second warmth by greater than half a second in 52.82, three one-hundredths slower than the season-best she set main off the Australian girls’s 4×100 free relay on the opening night time.
Impartial Athletes B swimmer Daria Klepikova logged a time of 53.14 to qualify third general and take down her Russian File of 53.36 set final summer time.
Advancing in 4th was American Torri Huske, who has been battling sickness all week however got here via together with her greatest swim of the meet to this point, clocking 53.21, whereas Cheng Yujie (53.34) was simply eight one-hundredths off her PB to maneuver via in fifth.
MEN’S 200 IM – FINAL
World File: 1:52.69, Leon Marchand (FRA) – 2025
World Junior File: 1:56.99, Hubert Kos (HUN) – 2021
Championship File: 1:52.69, Leon Marchand (FRA) – 2025
2023 World Champion: Leon Marchand (FRA), 1:54.82
2024 Olympic Champion: Leon Marchand (FRA), 1:54.06
Leon Marchand (FRA), 1:53.68
Shaine Casas (USA), 1:54.30
Hubert Kos (HUN), 1:55.34
Duncan Scott (GBR), 1:56.32
Lewis Clareburt (NZL), 1:57.06
Tomoyuki Matsushita (JPN), 1:57.52
Wang Shun (CHN), 1:57.92
Kosuke Makino (JPN), 1:59.25
After smashing the world report final night time, Leon Marchand had an actual race on his arms in tonight’s remaining of the lads’s 200 IM, however the Frenchman in the end got here away with the gold medal for his first world title of the meet.
Marchand and Shaine Casas, now coaching companions on the College of Texas, locked horns early on within the remaining, turning simply 5 one-hundredths aside from each other after the fly leg, after which Marchand opened up a half-second hole on backstroke, delivering 52.57 to take a seat simply shy of his world report tempo (52.50).
Regardless of falling off world report tempo on the breaststroke leg, Marchand widened his hole on Casas, and regardless of being out-split by the American coming house, it was sufficient to say gold with the second-fastest swim in historical past, clocking 1:53.68.
Cut up Comparability: Marchand v. Casas
Marchand
Casas
24.11
24.16
52.57 (28.46)
53.04 (28.88)
1:25.53 (32.96)
1:26.33 (33.29)
1:53.68 (28.15)
1:54.30 (27.97)
Within the semis, Marchand powered his technique to a time of 1:52.69 to knock 1.31 seconds off Ryan Lochte‘s world report of 1:54.00 that had been on the books since 2011.
Cut up Comparability: Marchand’s Ultimate v. WR
Marchand, Semi WR
Marchand, Ultimate
24.10
24.11
52.50 (28.40)
52.57 (28.46)
1:24.63 (32.13)
1:25.53 (32.96)
1:52.69 (28.05)
1:53.68 (28.15)
Casas extremely put up the ninth-fastest swim in historical past, firing off a time of 1:54.30 to maneuver into #4 all-time within the occasion, solely trailing Marchand, Lochte and Michael Phelps (1:54.16).
All-Time Performances, Males’s 200 IM (LCM)
Leon Marchand (FRA), 1:52.69 – 2025
Leon Marchand (FRA), 1:53.68 – 2025
Ryan Lochte (USA), 1:54.00 – 2011
Leon Marchand (FRA), 1:54.06 – 2024
Ryan Lochte (USA), 1:54.10 – 2009
Michael Phelps (USA), 1:54.16 – 2011
Michael Phelps (USA), 1:54.23 – 2008
Michael Phelps (USA), 1:54.27 – 2012
Shaine Casas (USA), 1:54.30 – 2025
Ryan Lochte (USA), 1:54.43 – 2010
Hubert Kos made it a clear sweep for Texas-trained swimmers on the rostrum, as he neared Laszlo Cseh‘s Hungarian File (1:55.18) with a private greatest time of 1:55.34 to win bronze, whereas Duncan Scott (1:56.32) settled for 4th after clocking 1:55 within the semis.
MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – FINAL
World File: 46.40, Pan Zhanle (CHN) – 2024
World Junior File: 46.86, David Popovici (ROU) – 2022
Championship File: 46.80, Pan Zhanle (CHN) – 2024
2023 World Champion: Kyle Chalmers (AUS), 47.15
2024 Olympic Champion: Pan Zhanle (CHN), 46.40
David Popovici (ROU), 46.51 CR
Jack Alexy (USA), 46.92
Kyle Chalmers (AUS), 47.17
Gui Caribe (BRA), 47.35
Egor Kornev (NAB), 47.51
Patrick Sammon (USA), 47.58
Maxime Grousset (FRA), 47.59
Matt Richards (GBR), 47.74
David Popovici is again on high within the males’s 100 freestyle.
After inserting sixth on the 2023 World Championships and incomes bronze on the Paris Olympics, the Romanian sensation reclaimed the world title he gained in 2022 in fashion on Thursday night time in Singapore, doing so in fashion with the second-fastest swim in historical past.
Popovici break up 22.49/24.02 en path to a remaining time of 46.51, knocking two-tenths off his earlier greatest time and European and Romanian File of 46.71 set final month, and in addition downing Pan Zhanle‘s Championship File of 46.80 set final yr.
The efficiency ranks #2 all-time behind Pan’s world report of 46.40 set finally summer time’s Olympics, and offers Popovici 5 of the eight-fastest swims in historical past, having additionally clocked 46.84 within the semis, which now sits #6 all-time by way of all-time performances.
All-Time Performances, Males’s 100 Freestyle (LCM)
Pan Zhanle (CHN), 46.40 – 2024
David Popovici (ROU), 46.51 – 2025
David Popovici (ROU), 46.71 – 2025
Pan Zhanle (CHN), 46.80 – 2024
Jack Alexy (USA), 46.81 – 2025
David Popovici (ROU), 46.84 – 2025
David Popovici (ROU), 46.86 – 2022
David Popovici (ROU), 46.88 – 2024
Cesar Cielo (BRA), 46.91 – 2009
Pan Zhanle (CHN), 46.92 – 2024
After breaking the American File final night time and shifting as much as #3 all-time with a time of 46.81, Jack Alexy backed it up by clocking 46.92 within the remaining, incomes him the silver medal together with his third profession swim sub-47. The end result matched the silver he gained on the 2023 World Championships.
Kyle Chalmers, who gained gold on the 2023 Worlds and was the silver medalist behind Pan on the Paris Olympics, picked up the bronze medal in a time of 47.17, splitting 22.64/24.53 to maneuver up from fifth on the flip.
Brazilian Gui Caribe blitzed his technique to a 4th-place end in 47.35 after setting a career-best 47.10 earlier this yr, whereas NAB’s Egor Kornev led the sphere via the 50 (22.38) however in the end fell to fifth in 47.51, simply shy of his lifetime better of 47.42.
WOMEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS
World File: 2:17.55, Evgeniia Chikunova (RUS) – 2023
World Junior File: 2:19.64, Viktoriya Zeynep Gunes (TUR) – 2015
Championship File: 2:19.11, Rikke Pedersen (DEN) – 2013
2023 World Champion: Tatjana Smith (RSA), 2:20.80
2024 Olympic Champion: Kate Douglass (USA), 2:19.24
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
Evgeniia Chikunova (NAB), 2:20.65
Kate Douglass (USA), 2:20.96
Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU), 2:22.98
Angharad Evans (GBR), 2:23.32
Alina Zmushka (NAA), 2:23.33
Ellie McCartney (IRL), 2:23.79
Kaylene Corbett (RSA), 2:23.81
Clara Rybak-Andersen (DEN), 2:24.10
Kate Douglass and Evgeniia Chikunova set the desk for a tantalizing showdown in tomorrow night time’s remaining of the ladies’s 200 breaststroke.
Racing within the first semi, Douglass was by far the quickest swimmer within the subject over the primary 100 (1:07.63) after which eased her manner down the again half to the touch first in her warmth by almost two and a half seconds in a time of two:20.96, with Angharad Evans the next-fastest swimmer again in 2:23.32.
Within the second warmth, Chikunova used her otherworldly distance-per-stroke to glide away from the competitors, making 2:20.65 look simple as she rolled to the highest seed for tomorrow’s remaining, the place the world report holder may have an opportunity to win her first LC World Championship medal.
Lithuanian veteran Kotryna Teterevkova was the one swimmer in both semi to maintain all 4 of her 50 splits below 37 seconds, which propelled her to maneuver up into the runner-up spot within the second semi in 2:22.98, good for third general into the ultimate.
Evans’ 2:23.32 was good for 4th, whereas Alina Zmushka got here inside three one-hundredths of her Belarusian File to qualify fifth in 2:23.33, whereas Eire’s Ellie McCartney broke 2:24 for the primary time in 2:23.79 to advance in sixth.
American Alex Walsh, who got here into the meet ranked 4th on the earth this yr with a time of two:22.45 from final month, ended up twelfth in 2:25.16, maybe indicating she’s affected by the sickness that’s plagued the U.S. crew all week (and resulted in sister and roommate Gretchen Walsh withdrawing from the 100 free this morning).
WOMEN’S 50 BACKSTROKE – FINAL
World File: 26.86, Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 2023
World Junior File: 27.49, Minna Atherton (AUS) – 2016
Championship File: 27.06, Zhao Jing (CHN) – 2009
2023 World Champion: Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 27.08
Katharine Berkoff (USA), 27.08
Regan Smith (USA), 27.25
Wan Letian (CHN), 27.30
Kylie Masse (CAN), 27.33
Lauren Cox (GBR), 27.36
Alina Gaifutdinova (NAB), 27.44
Analia Pigree (FRA), 27.47
Ingrid Wilm (CAN), 27.56
Katharine Berkoff claimed the primary particular person world title of her profession within the girls’s 50 backstroke, doing so in pretty decisive style after nearing her private greatest time below strain.
Berkoff, the silver medalist on this occasion on the 2022 World Championships, fired off a time of 27.08 to mud the sphere by almost two-tenths of a second, solely lacking the super-suited Championship File by two one-hundredths of a second as she was simply 11 one-hundredths shy of her lifetime greatest set final month (26.97) that ranks her #2 all-time.
It was a 1-2 for america as Regan Smith gained her second silver medal of the night time and third of the meet in a time of 27.25, following up her runner-up end within the 200 fly only one hour prior. Smith, who additionally gained silver within the 50 again on the 2023 Worlds, additionally positioned 2nd within the 100 again earlier within the week.
China’s Wan Letian, who put up a time of 27.09 earlier this yr to rank #5 all-time (she was #4 on the time, however has since been handed by Berkoff) did sufficient to win bronze in 27.30, the primary World Championship medal of her program and her first-ever particular person medal at a significant worldwide meet.
Kylie Masse, the 2022 world champion, positioned 4th in 27.33, matching her end from 2023.
Kaylee McKeown, the world report holder and 2023 world champion, opted to not contest this occasion.
MEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS
World File: 2:05.48, Qin Haiyang (CHN) – 2023
World Junior File: 2:06.91, Shin Ohashi (JPN) – 2025
Championship File: 2:05.48, Qin Haiyang (CHN) – 2023
2023 World Champion: Qin Haiyang (CHN), 2:05.48
2024 Olympic Champion: Leon Marchand (FRA), 2:05.85
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
Ippei Watanabe (JPN), 2:08.01
AJ Pouch (USA), 2:08.34
Caspar Corbeau (NED), 2:08.44
Yamato Fukasawa (JPN), 2:08.45
Carles Coll Marti (ESP), 2:08.49
Aleksandr Zhigalov (NAB), 2:08.55
Kirill Prigoda (NAB), 2:08.91
Qin Haiyang (CHN), 2:09.32
A pair of tightly contested semi-final heats resulted in seven of the eight qualifiers for tomorrow’s remaining within the males’s 200 breaststroke being separated by simply nine-tenths, led by Japan’s Ippei Watanabe.
Watanabe, the 28-year-old who gained back-to-back World Championship bronze medals on this occasion in 2017 and 2019, clocked 2:08.01 from the primary semi to steer the sphere into the ultimate, inside a half-second of his season-best time of two:07.53.
The Netherlands’ Caspar Corbeau positioned 2nd within the first warmth in a time of two:08.44, comfortably advancing the Olympic bronze medalist (and 2024 World silver medalist) into the ultimate in third.
Grabbing the #2 seed for the ultimate was American AJ Pouch, who emerged in a shootout down the stretch within the second semi to the touch first in 2:08.34, as he was considered one of simply three swimmers to interrupt 33 seconds on every of the primary three 50s. Pouch was solely 34 one-hundredths shy of his greatest time set at U.S. Nationals in early June (2:08.00).
Bunched up behind Pouch within the second semi have been Japan’s Yamato Fukasawa (2:08.45), reigning SC world champion Carles Coll Marti (2:08.49) of Spain, and the Russian duo of Aleksandr Zhigalov (2:08.55) and Kirill Prigoda (2:08.91), all shifting via to the ultimate in 4th via seventh.
Coll Marti and Pouch are notably coaching companions at Virginia Tech College.
Qualifying eighth was world report holder and 2023 world champion Qin Haiyang, who clocked 2:09.32–almost 4 seconds shy of the all-time mark he set two years in the past. Nonetheless, it’s an enchancment from the Olympics final summer time when he tied for tenth within the semis (2:09.96).
The boys’s 200 breaststroke subject feels significantly skinny this yr with reigning Olympic champion Leon Marchand dropping it from his program, former world report holder and world champion Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner lacking the meet because of harm, and rising Japanese star Shin Ohashi not on the Worlds roster after producing his standout performances lower than two weeks in the past.
MEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS
World File: 1:51.92, Aaron Peirsol (USA) – 2009
World Junior File: 1:55.14, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS) – 2017
Championship File: 1:51.92, Aaron Peirsol (USA) – 2009
2023 World Champion: Hubert Kos (HUN), 1:54.14
2024 Olympic Champion: Hubert Kos (HUN), 1:54.26
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
Pieter Coetze (RSA), 1:54.22
Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (FRA), 1:54.47
Hubert Kos (HUN), 1:54.64
Roman Mityukov (SUI), 1:54.83
Blake Tierney (CAN), 1:55.03
Apostolos Siskos (GRE), 1:55.06
Jan Cejka (CZE), 1:55.46
Luke Greenbank (GBR), 1:55.64
The boys’s 200 backstroke confirmed maybe the perfect depth we’ve ever seen within the occasion as 4 swimmers broke 1:55 and it took 1:55.64 simply to make it again into tomorrow’s remaining, almost a second faster than what was required to make the ultimate final summer time in Paris (1:56.52).
Main the cost was the red-hot South African Pieter Coetze, who adopted up his gold medal victory within the 100 again by shattering the African and South African Information in a time of 1:54.22, knocking nicely over a second off his earlier mark of 1:55.60 set on the 2024 Olympics.
Coetze, who was out in Lane 8, additionally cracks the highest 10 all-time within the occasion, bumping Japan’s Kosuke Hagino (1:54.23) down into eleventh.
After Coetze threw down the gauntlet within the first warmth, the second semi stepped up their recreation and tried to match his degree, with three males going 1:54.
The surface smoke continued as France’s Yohann Ndoye-Brouard snagged the warmth win from Lane 1 in a time of 1:54.47, blowing previous Mewen Tomac‘s French File of 1:55.38 whereas downing his personal private better of 1:55.62.
Reigning Olympic and 2023 world champion Hubert Kos adopted up his 200 IM bronze medal from earlier within the session with a powerful 1:54.64 clocking to qualify in third, only a half-second off his lifetime greatest, and Olympic bronze medalist Roman Mityukov chipped two one-hundredths off his Swiss File to advance 4th in 1:54.85.
Blake Tierney, who demolished the Canadian File by greater than a second on this morning’s prelims in 1:55.17, backed that efficiency up with a powerful outing below the lights in Lane 4, placing up a time of 1:55.03 to reset his newly-minted Nationwide File. Tierney got here into the meet with a private better of 1:56.74, and the Canadian File stood at 1:56.54 from Ethan Ekk previous to Tierney taking maintain of it within the prelims.
Additionally decreasing a Nationwide File within the semis was Jan Cejka, who broke his Czech File by greater than a second in 1:55.46 to punch his ticket to the ultimate in seventh. His earlier report stood at 1:56.66.
Apostolos Siskos, who set a Greek File of 1:54.66 earlier this yr, additionally seemed good with a 1:55.06 clocking to advance in sixth.
WOMEN’S 4X200 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINAL
World File: 7:37.50, Australia – 2023
World Junior File: 7:51.47, Canada – 2017
Championship File: 7:37.50, Australia – 2023
2023 World Champion: Australia, 7:37.50
2024 Olympic Champion: Australia, 7:38.08
Australia, 7:39.35
United States, 7:40.01
China, 7:42.99
Hungary, 7:49.66
Nice Britain, 7:51.87
Canada, 7:52.52
Italy, 7:54.16
Japan, 7:58.13
The Australian girls efficiently reclaimed the world title that’s rightfully theirs within the 4×200 freestyle relay to shut out Thursday night time’s session in Singapore.
It was an thrilling head-to-head conflict between the Aussies and the People all through the 800 meters, as the 2 groups have been nearly even on the first change, the U.S. inched forward on the midway mark, after which Australia acquired the higher of the again half to safe victory in a time of seven:39.35, the fourth-fastest efficiency ever.
Lani Pallister led off Australia in a time of 1:54.77, dipping below her private greatest time of 1:54.89 to provide them the benefit over the U.S.’s greatest 200 freestyler, Claire Weinstein, who touched in 1:54.83 to provide her third sub-1:55 swim in as many nights and are available inside two-tenths of her private greatest.
Anna Peplowski stepped up huge for the People on the second leg, splitting a career-best 1:54.75 to provide them a lead of three-tenths over the Aussies, who had Jamie Perkins break up 1:55.13.
Brittany Castelluzzo put Australia again in entrance as she break up 1:56.01 swimming third, overtaking American Erin Gemmell (1:56.75), who had a formidable swim given she failed to interrupt 2:00 in final night time’s 200 free remaining.
On the anchor leg, it was 200 free world and Olympic champion Mollie O’Callaghan going up towards the best feminine swimmer in historical past, Katie Ledecky, and regardless of Ledecky coming inside 4 one-hundredths of her career-best break up in 1:53.71, it wasn’t sufficient to overhaul O’Callaghan, who powered house in 1:53.44 to provide the Aussies the world title.
Australia’s time of seven:39.35 has solely been eclipsed by three different Aussie groups, all of which included 200 free world report holder Ariarne Titmus, who opted to take a seat out of the 2025 championships.
The U.S. quartet gained silver in a time of seven:40.01, breaking the American File of seven:40.73 set on the Tokyo Olympics when the People have been the runner-ups behind the controversial Chinese language crew that broke the world report. With this efficiency, the U.S. overtakes the Chinese language crew within the all-time rankings, as that world report from Tokyo stood at 7:40.33.
All-Time Performances, Girls’s 4×200 Freestyle Relay (LCM)
Australia (O’Callaghan, Jack, Throssell, Titmus), 7:37.50 – 2023
Australia (O’Callaghan, Pallister, Throssell, Titmus), 7:38.08 – 2024
Australia (Wilson, Melverton, O’Callaghan, Titmus), 7:37.50 – 2022
Australia (Pallister, Perkins, Castelluzzo, O’Callaghan), 7:39.35 – 2025
United States (Weinstein, Peplowski, Gemmell, Ledecky), 7:40.01 – 2025
The Chinese language crew of Liu Yaxin (1:55.94), Yang Peiqi (1:55.84), Yu Yiting (1:56.37) and Li Bingjie (1:54.84) was firmly entrenched within the bronze medal place all through the race, in the end inserting third in 7:42.99, almost three seconds behind the U.S. however greater than six and a half forward of 4th-place Hungary.
After swimming on China’s prelim relay, 12-year-old Yu Zidi picks up a bronze medal, turning into the youngest swimmer ever to succeed in the rostrum on the World Aquatics Championships and the second-youngest ever at a significant worldwide meet. In 1936, Danish swimmer Inge Sorensen gained bronze within the girls’s 200 breaststroke on the Olympics in Berlin only a few weeks after her twelfth birthday. Yu is 12 years and almost 10 months outdated, set to show 13 in October.
Hungary’s squad clocked 7:49.66, with Minna Abraham‘s 1:56.57 anchor leg pulling them away from Nice Britain, who have been lower than a tenth again on the remaining change however trailed off coming house to take fifth in 7:51.87. Canada, with no Summer season McIntosh, took sixth in 7:52.52. Not one of the groups that completed fifth via eighth had any splits below 1:57.
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