World Swimming Championships 2025: Marrit Steenbergeen stuns Mollie O’Callaghan for 100m freestyle gold – Katie Ledecky dominates 800 freestyle qualifying

Mollie O’Callaghan was pipped to the ladies’s 100m freestyle closing crown by defending world champion Marrit Steenbergen on the 2025 World Aquatics Championships on Friday, 1 August, on Day 6 of the swimming competitors.

The Australian star, who secured the 200 free crown on Wednesday, tried to carry on to the charging Dutchwoman, however needed to accept silver.

Next up, People’s Republic of China’s former world champion Qin Haiyang will attempt to regain his 200 breaststroke title, as will Hungary’s reigning Olympic champion Hubert Kos within the 200 backstroke closing.

Paris 2024 Olympic gold medallist Kate Douglass of Team USA is among the favourites to win the ladies’s 200 breaststroke closing – which might be her first within the occasion earlier than an exhilarating finale within the males’s 4×200 free relay closing.

In this morning’s qualifying session, Katie Ledecky topped the ladies’s 800 freestyle heats with a time of 8:14.62 to tee up one other showdown in opposition to Summer McIntosh tomorrow, with the Canadian chasing her fourth win in Singapore. McIntosh was greater than 5 seconds slower than the US legend.

Elsewhere, Kaylee McKeown continued her cost in the direction of one other dash double with the highest time within the girls’s 200 backstroke, whereas Cameron McEvoy certified in second general for this night’s males’s 50 free semis, and Gretchen Walsh moved a step nearer to her second win in Singapore after topping the ladies’s 50 butterfly heats.

The World Aquatics Championships — beforehand often known as the FINA World Championships and also known as the World Swimming Championships — have been held since 1973. The Singapore version marks the twenty second staging of the occasion.

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