Canada’s Josh Liendo, Ilya Kharun qualify for 100m butterfly remaining at swimming worlds

A pair of Canadians superior to the ultimate in the boys’s 100-metre butterfly on the swimming world championships after robust semifinal swims on Friday in Singapore.

Toronto’s Josh Liendo and Montreal’s Ilya Kharun certified second and fourth total, respectively.

Liendo, who took silver within the occasion at Paris 2024, clocked a time of fifty.24 seconds to complete second within the second semifinal behind Switzerland’s Noe Ponti (50.18).

The 22-year-old Liendo was sixth on the flip earlier than surging down the stretch and practically catching Ponti.

“I’ve got to send that first 50 tomorrow; that’ll be the plan.” Liendo informed CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux after the semifinals.

Kharun, 20, completed second within the first semifinal in 50.39, simply behind France’s Maxime Grousset (50.25).

“I’m putting everything on the line here for this event. I wanted to win but this is a pretty good step towards winning,” stated Kharun, who completed fourth within the 200 butterfly and narrowly missed qualifying for the 50 fly remaining.

Kharun claimed Olympic bronze in each the 100- and 200 butterfly in Paris.

The remaining is scheduled for Saturday at 7:43 a.m. ET.

Summer McIntosh returned to the pool Friday morning and gained her ladies’s 800m freestyle warmth, establishing her newest showdown with American rival Katie Ledecky on Saturday at 8:21 a.m. ET.

McIntosh gained the second warmth with a time of 8:19.88. She had the third-best total time behind Australia’s Lani Pallister (8:17.06) and Ledecky (8:14.62), who each certified from the third warmth.

Ledecky, a four-time Olympic champion within the occasion, additionally holds the world report (8:04.12).

The 18-year-old celebrity from Toronto is three-for-three in her pursuit of 5 particular person gold medals at worlds, having gained the 200m butterfly on Thursday to finish a golden hat trick.

Legendary U.S. Olympian Michael Phelps is the one swimmer to have gained 5 solo titles at a single long-course world championships.

McIntosh was visibly annoyed after narrowly lacking out on the world report regardless of cruising to a cushty victory.

“It was so close and I know that last 15 metres I took an extra breath and I should’ve had my head down,” she stated. “But, I mean, this is definitely going to fuel me for next season, so it leaves a little bit more fuel in the tank and really get closer and closer to that record.

“If there’s one world report that I needed to interrupt for the reason that begin of my profession it is this one.”

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Fellow Canadian Blake Tierney nearly reached the podium later Friday in the men’s 200m backstroke final.

The 23-year-old Saskatoon native finished fourth in 1:55.09 — 0.5 seconds behind French bronze medallist Yohann Ndoye-Brouard.

“This is my first time ever making a semi, not to mention a remaining, within the 200 again,” Tierney said. “The plan was actually simply to deal with every swim prefer it was my solely swim so if I did not make a semi or remaining I’d have the ability to stroll with my head excessive. So I feel it was a little bit extra taxing than perhaps among the different guys who perhaps cruised some within the morning. But three 1:55s, I’m fairly pleased with that.”

Olympic champion Hubert Kos of Hungary successfully defended his world title with a European-record time of 1:53.19. South Africa’s Pieter Coetze, who won the 100 back, claimed silver while setting the African record (1:53.36).

Tierney lowered the Canadian record in the event during his heat and again in his semifinal to qualify with the fifth-fastest overall time of 1:55.03.

In other Canadian results, Kelowna, B.C.’s Taylor Ruck failed to reach the women’s 50m backstroke final after placing sixth in her semifinal and 13th overall.

Ingrid Wilm of Calgary also missed out on a final, finishing seventh in her women’s 200m backstroke semifinal with the 13th-fastest overall time.

12-year-old Yu makes history with bronze

Chinese 12-year-old Yu Zidi has won a bronze medal, an astounding feat for a girl who would be a sixth- or seventh-grade student depending on the school system.

Yu earned the medal by swimming in the prelims of China’s 4x200m freestyle relay team. She did not swim in the final on Thursday — China placed third behind winning Australia and the United States — but gets a bronze medal as a team member.

She became the youngest swimmer ever to win a medal at worlds, surpassing Canadian Allison Higson, who earned bronze in the 200m breaststroke at 13 in 1986.

Yu’s been close to winning an individual medal, placing fourth in both the 200 butterfly and the 200 individual medley. She still has the 400 IM to swim.

Brent Nowicki, the chief director of World Aquatics, stated the governing physique would take a look at its age-limit guidelines. The restrict is now 14, however athletes can attain the worlds in the event that they surpass a tricky time commonplace.

“I didn’t think I’d have this conversation, but now I think we have to go back and say is this appropriate?” he stated this week in Singapore. “Is this really the right way to go forward and do we need to do other things? Put other guardrails up? Do we allow it under certain conditions? I don’t know the answer.”

He known as Yu “great.” He additionally stated officers needed to be “careful” concerning the age difficulty.

The gold medals have been unfold round on Friday, due to the absence of McIntosh and French star Leon Marchand from any finals on Day 6 in Singapore.

Marchand, who has already damaged the world report within the 200m particular person medley, will attempt to break his personal 400 IM report on Sunday, the ultimate day.

Marrit Steenbergen of the Netherlands powered by way of the final 50 metres to win the ladies’s 100m freestyle. Steenbergen gained in 52.55 seconds, with silver for Mollie O’Callaghan (52.67) of Australia and bronze to Torri Huske (52.89) of the United States.

Steenbergen gained this occasion on the 2024 worlds in Doha, however these championships have been frivolously attended. This race had a tricky subject. Both O’Callaghan and Huske are Olympic particular person champions, however not on this occasion.

It was the primary gold medal for the Netherlands in Singapore.

China’s Qin Haiyang, who holds the world report, gained the boys’s 200 breaststroke in 2:07.41 with second for Ippei Watanabe (2:07.70) of Japan and bronze to Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands (2:07.73). Haiyang additionally gained the 100 breaststroke in Singapore.

Haiyang swam from Lane 8 and known as profitable from that far outdoors place “a miracle.” He set the world report two years in the past within the worlds in Fukuoka, Japan (2:05.48).

American Kate Douglass bought the U.S. its fifth particular person gold in these championships, taking the 200 breaststroke in 2:18.50, the second quickest in historical past. Evgeniia Chikunova of the Neutral Athletes was second (2:19.96). Kaylene Corbett of South Africa and Alina Zmushka of the Neutral Athletes tied for bronze (2:23.52).

The Americans have been slowed by way of the championships with dozens of members of the workforce having picked up “acute gastroenteritis” at a coaching camp in Thailand earlier than arriving in Singapore. Head Coach Greg Meehan stated the “overall majority” of the workforce had been affected.

In the boys’s 4×200 freestyle relay, Great Britain gained its first gold and first medal with a time of 6:59.84.

China took silver (7:00.91) with bronze for Australia (7:00.98). The United States was fourth in 7:01.24.

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Reporter Devin Heroux might be on website in Singapore chatting with Canadians following their races, and can be a part of The Ready Room show live on YouTube day by day after finals, with Brittany MacLean Campbell internet hosting from Toronto. The present will embody Canadian highlights, athlete interviews and evaluation.