Australia bomb out in heats of blended 4x100m freestyle relay

There was some doubt whether or not McEvoy would even race at these world championships given the upcoming start of his son.

With Hartley born on July 10, McEvoy mentioned a fast goodbye and boarded a aircraft to Singapore. He joked this week he couldn’t fathom how anybody copes with being away from a new child with out FaceTime.

He later shared a photograph of Hartley, effectively previous his bedtime, carrying a ‘Go Dad’ shirt.

“That was so cool to see,” McEvoy mentioned. “It’s special finishing a race like that and seeing those photos. Hopefully next time they’ll be in the stands.

“I’m going straight to the newborn trenches [when I get back].”

Then got here McKeown, contemporary off her win within the 100m backstroke and a dislocated shoulder a month in the past, as revealed by this masthead.

Few swimmers in historical past have been as dominant as McKeown (2:03.33), who got here inside 0.19 seconds of her world document to as soon as once more get the higher of her American rival Regan Smith (2:04.29).

It was McKeown’s sixth particular person world title, equalling Ian Thorpe’s Australian document. No Australian – male or feminine – has extra mixed particular person Olympic and world championship gold medals.

“I dug really deep, and I’m really happy with the time that I posted,” McKeown mentioned. “Everyone always asks if I’m going for a world record anytime I get into the water. It’s the last thing that comes to my mind.”

The evening’s most jaw-dropping efficiency, nonetheless, might have belonged to Pallister.

Her silver within the 800m freestyle – behind solely Ledecky – was the sixth-fastest time in historical past (8:05.98) and a staggering five-second private finest.

It wasn’t only a breakthrough; it was a warning shot to the world forward of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Under world document tempo on the 550-metre mark, the 22-year-old trailed Ledecky and McIntosh for a lot of the race however surged residence within the ultimate 100 metres to nearly steal the win. McIntosh was left with bronze and couldn’t cover her disappointment.

The Canadian’s quest to win 5 particular person gold medals is over.

“I didn’t think I’d be an 8:05. I thought under 8:10 was definitely realistic,” Pallister mentioned. “I feel like I was kind of just watching them to go about their business and I was kind of just on the side thinking, ‘Oh, who’s going to win?’”

Australia bomb out in heats of blended 4x100m freestyle relay

Singapore: Australia bombed out within the heats of the blended 4x100m freestyle relay on the world swimming championships because the USA took their first relay gold of the meet.

In a serious shock, Australia, the 2023 world champions completed eleventh general within the heats – lacking the ultimate and leaving coaches surprised poolside.

The Dolphins had been extensively tipped to make the rostrum, if not win the occasion, having claimed gold in each the lads’s and ladies’s 4x100m freestyle relays on evening one in every of competitors.

It additionally means Mollie O’Callaghan stays caught on 11 profession world championship gold medals – tied with Ian Thorpe for probably the most by an Australian – and must wait for one more likelihood to surpass him.

Australia’s warmth group of Kai Taylor, Max Giuliani, Hannah Casey and Milla Jansen, with plans to usher in O’Callaghan and Kyle Chalmers for tonight’s ultimate.

But the quartet couldn’t generate sufficient momentum of their morning swim, clocking 3:25.15 to complete exterior the highest eight.

Canada claimed the final spot within the ultimate in a time of three:24.94.

It was a sobering consequence for the Dolphins, who’re the world document holders within the occasion after successful gold on the 2023 world championships in Fukuoka in a time of three:18.83. Australia additionally gained a world title in 2022.

The race will not be on the schedule on the Olympics.

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Australia, like different nations, opted to relaxation its stars for the heats to preserve vitality for the ultimate. But this time, these chosen didn’t come near their private bests.

Taylor and Giuliani produced excellent swims as a part of the gold medal-winning males’s 4x100m freestyle relay group earlier within the meet and have carried heavy workloads all week.

Giuliani went 47.63 on Sunday within the Sunday’s males’s ultimate however pale to clock 49.00 within the blended occasion.

Casey posted a cut up of 53.86 within the heats of the ladies’s 4x100m freestyle relay however swam 54.23 because the third leg on Saturday.

Jansen clocked a 52.89 Australia’s victorious ladies’s group however touched the wall in 53.55 in her newest swim.

The USA gained gold in a world document time of three:18.48.