Leon Marchand scrapes by to 400 IM remaining, Summer McIntosh on observe for fourth gold medal

French celebrity Leon Marchand did simply sufficient to advance to the 400 IM remaining on the 2025 World Aquatics Championships on Sunday, 3 August.

The four-time Olympic champion, who set a brand new world document en path to the 200 IM title earlier this week, regarded calm as he smiled and waved to the cheering crowd whereas strolling out beneath a highlight at Singapore’s World Championships Arena.

After hauling in early race chief Matsushita Tomoyuki on the midway level, 400 IM world document holder Marchand took his foot off the gasoline, presumably with one eye on this night’s remaining.

Olympic silver medallist Matsuchita touched house within the quickest total time in qualifying with 4:10.39, whereas Marchand, who regarded back and forth to verify his competitors on the breaststroke leg, clocked 4:13.19 to take seventh, with the highest eight progressing.

Things had been extra clear-cut for Canadian phenom Summer McIntosh, who secured the highest end total within the girls’s 400 IM qualifying heats.

The 18-year-old, who already has three golds in Singapore from the 400m freestyle, 200 IM and 200m butterfly, regarded dialled in as she approached the blocks, following her frustrations with a bronze-medal end in final evening’s 800 freestyle remaining.

McIntosh, the 400 IM world document holder and reigning Olympic champion within the occasion, dominated proceedings, ending nearly a full second away from her nearest rival in Heat 3, stopping the clock in 4:35.56.

She progresses to this night’s remaining alongside 12-year-old Yu Zidi of the People’s Republic of China and Katie Grimes of the US.

Elsewhere, the United States topped the boys’s and ladies’s 4×100 medley relay qualifying heats.