Summer McIntosh caps historic swim worlds with fourth particular person gold; U.S. tops medal standings

Summer McIntosh capped arguably the perfect world championships for a feminine swimmer, whereas the U.S. broke the ladies’s 4x100m medley world report within the closing occasion to complete with yet another gold medal than rival Australia.

McIntosh, an 18-year-old Canadian, swam the third-fastest 400m particular person medley in historical past — 4 minutes, 25.78 seconds, distancing the sector by 7.48 seconds. McIntosh holds the 4 quickest instances ever within the occasion, together with the world report of 4:23.65.

She grew to become the second feminine swimmer to win 4 particular person golds at a single worlds — additionally taking the 400m freestyle, 200m IM and 200m butterfly earlier within the meet. She tacked on an 800m free bronze Saturday.

Katie Ledecky, who gained Saturday’s 800m free, is the one different feminine swimmer to assert 4 particular person golds at a worlds (200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m frees in 2015). Swede Sarah Sjostrom is the one different feminine swimmer to earn 5 particular person medals at one worlds (2019).

SWIMMING WORLDS: Results

World Swimming Championships medal standings: USA over Australia

Overall, the U.S. earned probably the most medals for a seventeenth consecutive worlds relationship to 1991 and probably the most golds (9 to eight over Australia) for a twelfth time within the final 13 editions.

Of the 29 U.S. medals, 20 got here in girls’s occasions, together with no less than one medal in 14 of the 17 particular person girls’s occasions.

The U.S. males claimed one gold medal over the eight-day meet (Luca Urlando, 200m butterfly), their fewest at a world championships. For the second time, the U.S. gained not one of the three males’s relays (2001).

A majority of the 47 complete American swimmers had been affected to various levels by acute gastroenteritis, or a abdomen bug, main into and through the meet.

“I think nobody really understands kind of what the group has been through unless you are on this trip,” nationwide workforce managing director Greg Meehan mentioned on Peacock. “The challenges were incredible. When you have people losing 15 pounds, 20 pounds, that’s a lot, and they have persevered.”

Also Sunday, the U.S. girls broke their very own world report within the medley relay — 3:49.34 from a workforce of Regan Smith, Kate Douglass (nineteenth profession world medal relationship to 2022), Gretchen Walsh (quickest butterfly relay break up in historical past) and Torri Huske.

A workforce of impartial athletes from Russia gained the lads’s 4x100m medley relay in 3:26.93, the second-fastest time in historical past.

Jack Alexy anchored the U.S. to bronze with the second-fastest 100m freestyle relay break up in historical past — 45.95 seconds, simply behind the 45.92 from China’s Pan Zhanle on the 2024 Olympics and forward of Jason Lezak’s iconic 46.06 from the 2008 Beijing Games.

France’s Leon Marchand grew to become the primary man to comb the 200m and 400m IMs for a 3rd worlds, taking the latter by 3.59 seconds in 4:04.73, the fifth-fastest time in historical past.

Tunisia’s Ahmed Jaouadi gained the 1500m free to finish a sweep of the lads’s distance races.

American Bobby Finke, the Olympic gold medalist and world report holder, earned bronze — making it 5 medals in his final 5 international championships within the occasion.

Finke mentioned earlier than putting fourth in Wednesday’s 800m free that his private objectives had been derailed by the abdomen bug.

“This meet’s been quite a whirlwind,” he mentioned after Sunday’s race. “I’m disappointed with my results, but that’s on me. I’ve just got to do better next year.

“I’m happy to be on the podium. It’s obviously not the place I want. My endurance was a little bit better after the 800m. I think it showed there (in the 1500m).”

Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte gained a fourth consecutive world title within the 50m breaststroke, 13 years after taking Olympic 100m breast gold at age 15.

American Lilly King, who adopted Meilutyte as Olympic 100m breast champ in 2016, completed fifth in Sunday’s 50m breast within the final race of her profession. King, a 28-year-old with 15 profession Olympic and world titles, mentioned in May that she would retire after this season.

In the 50m backstroke, Kliment Kolesnikov, a impartial athlete from Russia, gained by tying his personal second-fastest time in historical past (23.68). His world report is 23.55.

World Championships highlights air subsequent Saturday at 1 p.m. ET on NBC.

Summer McIntosh crossed an ocean and took up a new sport that helped her have one of the best swim meets in history.