2025 World Swimming Championships: U.S. units world file in girls’s medley relay; Summer McIntosh wins fourth gold medal

The United States girls saved their greatest for final, setting a world file within the 400 medley relay within the closing race of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships.

Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske clocked a world file 3:49.34 to finish the meet. The victory gave the United States its ninth gold medal, edging Australia’s eight for probably the most in Singapore. The U.S. additionally had 11 silver medals and 9 bronze, giving it 29 complete medals, properly forward of Australia’s 20.

The United States crew struggled early within the meet after plenty of its swimmers got here down with a abdomen bug and both carried out properly under expectations or needed to withdraw from occasions utterly. U.S. legends Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte criticized the Americans’ efficiency — earlier than the Americans picked up three gold medals on Saturday after which one other on Sunday with the ladies’s world-record relay.

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Canadian star Summer McIntosh accomplished arguably the best world championships ever by a feminine swimmer, capturing her fourth gold medal in Singapore after successful the ladies’s 400m particular person medley in 4:25.78.

McIntosh’s time was the fourth-fastest ever. Twelve-year-old Yu Zidi from China completed fourth.

McIntosh got here to Singapore making an attempt to affix Phelps as the one swimmers to ever win 5 golds in a person world championships. Her bid ended when Katie Ledecky beat her within the girls’s 800m freestyle on Saturday.

McIntosh, who completed third within the 800 free, additionally gained the ladies’s 400m freestyle, 200m IM and 200m butterfly.

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French star Leon Marchand gained gold within the males’s 400m particular person medley, 4:04.73, properly forward of second-place Tomoyuki Matsushita of Japan (4:08.32), however not near Marchand’s personal WR.

Marchand had earlier set a WR within the 200 IM in Singapore, turning into the primary man to comb the 200 IM and 400 IM in three world championships

American Lilly King, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, completed fifth within the girls’s 50m breaststroke within the closing aggressive race of her profession.

American Bobby Finke gained bronze in males’s 1500m freestyle on Sunday. The U.S. completed third within the males’s 4×100 medley relay.