Gretchen Walsh, Hubert Kos lead World Aquatics Swimming World Cup standings after Carmel

Olympic gold medalists Gretchen Walsh and Hubert Kos lead the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup standings after every received three occasions on the first of three stops in Carmel, Indiana, this weekend.

The American Walsh accomplished her triple Sunday within the 100m butterfly. She clocked 53.69 seconds, the fourth-fastest time in historical past.

Walsh additionally owns the highest 3 times, together with the world document of 52.71. She is the one girl to interrupt 54 seconds within the occasion.

Walsh beforehand received the 50m fly (breaking her world document) on Saturday and the 100m particular person medley (the third-fastest time in historical past) on Friday.

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She scored 59.1 factors based mostly on her finishes and instances in Carmel. She takes a small lead over Virginia coaching companion Kate Douglass (58.9 factors, additionally profitable three occasions) into the final two World Cup stops in Westmont, Illinois, and Toronto the following two weekends.

Last 12 months, Douglass and Frenchman Léon Marchand received the general sequence titles based mostly on outcomes on the three World Cups. Each acquired $100,000 for profitable.

Canadian Summer McIntosh, who received 4 particular person gold medals at this previous summer time’s long-course World Championships, might have been an element for this 12 months’s ladies’s title. But she withdrew earlier than the Carmel cease as a consequence of sickness. She might nonetheless race Westmont and/or Toronto.

Marchand didn’t win any occasions in Carmel and isn’t anticipated to contest all three stops this 12 months.

That opens the door for the Hungarian Kos, his coaching companion in Texas. Kos, the Olympic 200m backstroke champion, swept all three backstrokes in Carmel.

He scored 58.4 factors, taking a big lead over Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands (55.8).

Also Sunday, Australian Kaylee McKeown took the 200m backstroke in 1:58.86, the third-fastest time in historical past behind American Regan Smith’s prime two.

McKeown, who swept the backstrokes on the final two Olympics, distanced Smith on Sunday by 1.21 seconds, at some point after Smith received the 100m again for her first head-to-head victory over McKeown in six years.

The World Cup continues Friday by means of Sunday in Westmont with prelims and finals dwell on Peacock.