Summer McIntosh takes bronze in 800m freestyle at swimming world championships

SINGAPORE – A must-see race on the world swimming championship lived as much as its billing.

Canada’s Summer McIntosh emerged with a bronze medal after a three-way duel from begin to end within the ladies’s 800-metre freestyle Saturday in Singapore.

The Toronto teenager, Olympic champion Katie Ledecky of the United States and Lani Pallister of Australia battled from the blocks to the wall with Ledecky claiming her seventh world title within the distance.

“I hate losing more than I like winning and I think that’s a mentality that I’ve carried with myself throughout my entire career,” McIntosh mentioned. “That’s really what gets my hand on the wall first most of the time. The feeling right now is something that I never want to feel again.”

McIntosh, looking for a fourth-straight gold medal in Singapore, ran second to the American star earlier than making her transfer on the remaining flip for a short lead after 700 metres.

But Ledecky surged and delivered the knockout punch over the ultimate 50 with Pallister closing quick behind her.

“I simply knew it was shut the entire manner,” Ledecky said. “There had been instances the place I assumed I used to be simply going to interrupt away. I used to be simply glad I used to be up there.”

Ledecky touched the wall in eight minutes, 5.62 seconds with Pallister lower than four-tenths of a second behind. McIntosh ran out of gasoline and touched the wall 1.67 seconds after Ledecky.

“That’s not even close to what I wanted time-wise, place-wise, how I executed the race,” McIntosh mentioned. “I want to say congrats to Katie of course and Lani, they had amazing swims, but that’s not what I wanted myself individually.”

McIntosh will come up quick in her purpose of 5 gold medals in her 5 races.

However, the 18-year-old is the favorite and world-record holder within the ladies’s 400-metre particular person medley on Sunday’s final day of competitors.

“At this level I’m eager about the 400 IM. I’m not carried out but,” McIntosh mentioned.

McIntosh was already the primary Canadian to win three gold medals in a single world championship with victories within the 400 freestyle, 200 butterfly and 200 particular person medley.

Montreal’s Ilya Kharun took bronze within the males’s 100-metre butterfly Saturday to provide Canada eight medals on the world aquatics championships — seven in swimming and one in diving.

The 20-year-old Kharun, who was an Olympic bronze medallist final 12 months in Paris, posted a time of fifty.07 seconds.

Maxime Grousset of France was the winner in 49.62 forward of silver medallist Noe Ponti of Switzerland in 49.83.

Kharun missed the 50-metre butterfly remaining by a hundredth of a second and completed fourth within the 200 fly lower than two-tenths away from a medal. So the Canadian was glad to assert some {hardware}.

“I’m so happy, I think it was well deserved,” he said.

Toronto’s Josh Liendo was fourth in 50.09. Taylor Ruck of Kelowna, B.C., positioned tenth within the ladies’s 50-metre freestyle.

Liendo, Ruck, Marie-Sophie Harvey and Ruslan Gaziev positioned sixth within the blended 4 x 100 freestyle relay.

The world aquatics championship in Singapore provides a complete prize purse of US$6 million in diving, water polo, inventive swimming, open water swimming and excessive diving. Swimmers who broke world information obtain a $30,000 bonus.

Montreal diver Amelie-Laura Jasmin positioned eleventh in ladies’s springboard Saturday.