Sarah Sjöström gained her twenty first profession medal in particular person races on this planet championships, surpassing Michael Phelps’ 20 for the listing with a victory within the ladies’s 50-meter freestyle Sunday.
Swedish swimmer Sjöström, who i’m ready the realm listing within the semifinals Saturday, powered house within the ultimate 25 meters for the win, clocking 23.62 — best one-hundredth of a 2nd clear of her world-record attempt the moment earlier than.
“I’m super happy with that. It was very busy yesterday, with the world record and the gold medal,” stated Sjöström, who gained a 5th instantly global identify within the 50 butterfly on Saturday.
It was once any other of Phelps’ longstanding information that fell at the ultimate moment of worlds. Katie Ledecky penniless a tied with Phelps through successful a listing sixteenth particular person gold Saturday within the 800 freestyle, future French teenager and attainable Paris Olympics big name Leon Marchand i’m ready the realm listing within the males’s 400-meter particular person medley endmost Sunday to fracture the endmost particular person mark that Phelps had held from his illustrious swimming profession.
Shayna Jack of Australia picked up the silver within the 50 separate in 24.10, future Zhang Yufei of China earned the bronze in 24.15.
Summer season McIntosh, the 16-year-old Canadian who additionally guarantees to be a celeb in Paris after 12 months, gained her 2nd gold medal of worlds through taking the ladies’s 400-meter particular person medley in 4:27.11.
The victory for McIntosh, the world-record holder within the match, added to her win within the 200 butterfly Friday.
McIntosh seized the supremacy within the opening leg and gained going away, recording the third-fastest month in historical past. American Katie Grimes took the silver in 4:31.41, with Jenna Forrester of Australia selecting up the bronze in 4:32.30.
“Going into tonight, I just wanted to see how hard I could push myself seeing as the 400 individual medley is such a hard event,” McIntosh stated. “It’s very strategic, so just learning more and more each time I swim.”
McIntosh were given off to a sluggish get started on the championships, completing fourth within the 400 freestyle and getting bronze within the 200 separate earlier than placing gold in her endmost two particular person races.
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania i’m ready an international listing on find out how to successful gold within the ladies’s 50-meter breaststroke in 29.16. Meilutyte grabbed the early supremacy and was once by no means challenged.
American Lilly King claimed the silver in 29.94, future Benedetta Pilato of Italy picked up the bronze in 30.04.
Ahmed Hafnaoui of Tunisia added the lads’s 1,500-meter freestyle gold to the 800 separate he gained previous within the worlds, popular in an epic combat with Bobby Finke of america that went right down to the twine and was once determined through 0.05 seconds.
The 20-year-old Hafnaoui captured the gold in 14:31.54, with Finke clocking 14:31.59 for silver. Sam Snip of Australia rounded out the rostrum with the bronze in 14:37.28.
Snip led from early within the race till the 950-meter mark when Finke moved in short in entrance. In a while thereafter, Hafnaoui went forward and retained the supremacy the left-overs of the way in which, narrowly touching earlier than Finke on the end.
“I think I deserve it,” Hafnaoui stated. “Bobby is so fast in the end of the race, he pushed us. It was so close to the world record. I enjoyed the race. Thanks to Bobby for pushing me.”
American citizens Hunter Armstrong and Justin Ress completed 1-2 within the males’s 50-meter backstroke. Armstrong gained the gold in 24.05, with Ress taking silver in 24.24.
Xu Jiayu of China held the early supremacy however was once overtaken through Armstrong and Ress within the ultimate 25 meters and ended up with the bronze in 24.50.
The U.S. claimed gold in each relays Sunday. The American citizens gained males’s 4×100 medley relay in 3:27.20. China landed the silver in 3:29.00, future Australia settled for the bronze in 3:29.62.
The U.S. ladies’s 4×100 medley relay gained in 3:52.08, forward of Australia in 3:53.37 and Canada in 3:54.12.
The govern 3 finishers in each relays certified for the Paris Olympics.
Australia ended the worlds with 13 golds, which secured its best possible showings in 2001 and 2005, and 25 general. The U.S. ended with seven golds and 38 overall. China completed with a tally of 5 golds and 16 general.
The after version of the worlds can be hosted through Doha, Qatar, in February, about 5 months earlier than the Olympics.
The Related Press and Reuters contributed to this document.
