Summer McIntosh wins third gold of swimming world championships; Leon Marchand falls wanting personal world document

Canada’s Summer McIntosh continued her push to change into the primary lady to ever win 5 gold medals in a single swimming world championships after dominating the 200-meter butterfly Thursday in Singapore.

It was McIntosh’s third gold of the week. Her 2:01.99 was the second-fastest ladies’s 200 butterfly ever and set a Canadian document.

McIntosh missed out on the world document by 0.18 seconds. After the race, she really expressed some frustration she did not break the world document. She later added that one breath proved to be the distinction.

McIntosh did break the document for quickest 200m butterfly on the World Championships, so she did make some historical past. But Zige Liu nonetheless holds the world document with a time of two:01.81.

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Regan Smith of the United States completed second in 2:04.99, a full three seconds behind McIntosh.

Leon Marchand continues dominant run

French star Leon Marchand gained the boys’s 200 particular person medley finals however fell wanting the world document he set a day earlier. Marchand broke Ryan Lochte’s 2011 world document in Wednesday’s semifinals with a 1:52.69. In the ultimate, Marchand went 1:53.68 — which was additionally sooner than Lochte’s earlier WR of 1:54.00 — to beat American Shaine Casas’ 1:54.30.

Casas’ time was the third-fastest ever by an American male within the 200 IM, trailing solely Lochte and Michael Phelps.

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American Katharine Berkoff wins ladies’s 50m backstroke

Katharine Berkoff has gained medals on the World Championships earlier than, however by no means managed a gold in a person occasion. That modified Thursday, as Berkoff picked up the win within the ladies’s 50m backstroke.

It was a powerful efficiency for Berkoff, who posted a time of 27.08 to win the gold.

American Regan Smith completed second within the occasion, posting a time of 27.25.

Jack Alexy finishes second in 100m freestyle

Romania’s David Popovici picked up a win over Jack Alexy within the males’s 100m freestyle. Popovici broke his personal European document within the win, swimming a 46.51 to take gold. It was the second-fastest swim in males’s 100m freestyle. Alexy, who set an American document throughout prelims Wednesday, completed second with a 46.92, simply barely slower than his document from Wednesday’s motion.

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