World Cup Toronto – Day Three Prelims: Gretchen Walsh, Kate Douglass Getting ready for Evening Showdown
After practically three weeks of sensational racing in North America, the 2025 version of the World Aquatics World Cup will conclude on Saturday night time in Toronto. Along with the meet that includes the ultimate 11 races of the collection, general champions will likely be topped. Whereas Hungarian Hubert Kos is in command within the males’s standings, Gretchen Walsh and Kate Douglass are locked in a good battle for the ladies’s crown.
The final session of prelims will permit Walsh and Douglass to place themselves for the night finals, with Walsh slated to contest the 100 butterfly and Douglass scheduled for the 100 freestyle. Each ladies are the world-record holders of their respective occasions, with Douglass setting her mark finally week’s World Cup cease in Westmont (Sick.).
Right here is an event-by-event recap of the Day Three prelims:
Males’s 400 Particular person Medley (Slowest Heats)
Japan’s Yumeki Kojima managed the highest time of the morning, behind an effort of 4:11.33. Motion will intensify at night time when Shane Casas and Carson Foster occupy the center lanes within the timed last, every seeded in 3:57-mid territory. Foster gained the occasion on the Carmel cease of the World Cup tour whereas Casas emerged victorious final week in Westmont.
Ladies’s 100 Butterfly
World-record holder Gretchen Walsh blazed by way of the prelims in 53.83, a time solely she has bettered. En path to the sixth-fastest time in historical past, the American simply secured the highest seed for the ultimate. She was adopted because the No. 2 qualifier by Australian Alexandria Perkins, who touched the wall in 56.11, with Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey going 56.43 for the third seed. Perkins set an Aussie file within the 50 fly on Friday night time.
