Kos leads males’s rankings after three wins in opening World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Carmel, Indiana

Hungary’s Olympic and world 200m backstroke champion Hubert Kos leads the lads’s total standings after the primary of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2025 legs in Carmel, Indiana, the place he gained all three of his races.

The spotlight of assembly, which ran from October 10 to 12, was the ladies’s 50m butterfly world file of 23.72 set by house swimmer Gretchen Walsh, who leads the ladies’s standings.

Kos, 22, started with victory within the males’s 200m in 1:46.84 forward of four-times Paris 2024 champion and final 12 months’s total males’s World Cup champion Leon Marchand, who clocked 1:47.68.

It was one in every of three defeats for the 23-year-old French icon, Kos’s coaching accomplice underneath Bob Bowman on the University of Texas, who is just not as a result of compete within the two concluding World Cup legs- in Westmont, United States from October 17 to 19 and in Toronto from October 23 to 25. He plans to return into coaching for subsequent 12 months’s European Aquatics Championships in Paris.

Kos went on to win the lads’s 50m backstroke in 22.65 from Estonia’s Ralf Tribuntsov in 22.91, and the lads’s 100m backstroke in 49.08 from Poland’s Kacper Stokowski on 49.92 and Italy’s Olympic 100m backstroke champion Thomas Ceccon, who clocked 50.20.

“I think that Bob (Bowman) will be happy,” Kos instructed World Aquatics. “He knows, and I also know what we need to improve on to get down to that world record.

“I’m starting this year swimming in the 100 as well as the 200, you know, which makes sense because I am the fastest yard swimmer in both those events, so yeah, I’d be good to reach that level one day.”

Marchand’s different defeats got here within the 200m medley, the place he clocked 1:49.73 behind Shaine Casas of the United States, who recorded an American file of 1:49.43, and the 200m breaststroke, the place he clocked 2:02.00 behind the 24-year-old Dutch swimmer now second within the males’s World Cup rankings, Caspar Corbeau, the Paris 2024 200m breaststroke bronze medallist.

Corbeau gained in 2:01.63 to maneuver to eleventh on the all-time record. He had earlier gained the 100m breaststroke in 56.67 from impartial athlete Ilya Shymanovich, who clocked 57.18.

Corbeau additionally took silver within the males’s 50m breaststroke in 25.78, 0.03 behind South Africa’s Chris Smith, with impartial athlete Ilya Shymanovich third in 25.79 and Britain’s 30-year-old a number of world and Olympic champion Adam Peaty sixth in 26.43.

Switzerland’s Noe Ponti, who recorded two 50m butterfly world data in final 12 months’s World Cup sequence, had combined fortunes, profitable the lads’s100m butterfly in 48.53 forward of Ilya Kharun on 49.02, however then shedding his first brief course 50m butterfly race since 2022 as he completed 0.04 behind Kharun in clocking 21.90, with Ceccon third in 22.36.

“I guess it’s the first time I actually beat Noe (Ponti) in the 50 Fly,” Kharun stated, “but I know he’s got a lot more in the tank.

“Last year, he was like 21.50 at this time. So it’ll definitely take a lot more, but I’m happy to have this moment. He’s a great opponent and I’m just really happy that I get to race him.”

Ponti additionally completed second within the 100m medley, recording 51.13 behind the 50.86 of Casas.

Poland’s Katarzyna Wasick gained the ladies’s 50m freestyle in 23.29 forward of Australia’s Alexandra Perkins and Mollie O’Callaghan.

Britain’s Abbie Wood gained the ladies’s 400m medley in 4:27.14 from Ireland’s Ellen Walshe, who recorded 4:28.47.

Wood additionally completed second within the girls’s 200m medley, clocking 2:05.14 behind Alex Walsh of the United States, who gained in 2:04.76. Walshe was third within the girls’s 200m butterfly in 2:05.07.

Eneli Jefimova of Estonia gained the ladies’s 50m breaststroke in 29.33 from Belgium’s Florine Gaspard, who recorded 29.58 and Germany’s Anna Elendt on 29.80, with Ireland’s Mona McSharry fourth in 29.82.

Elendt was second within the girls’s 200m breaststroke in 2:17.80 behind Kate Douglass of the United States, who clocked 2:13.97. she was additionally third within the girls’s 100m breaststroke in 1:03.83, one place behind Jefimova, who clocked 1:03.35.

Marrit Steenbergen of The Netherlands, the world 100m freestyle champion, completed third in that occasion in 51.56 behind Kate Douglas of the United States, who clocked 50.83, and Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan, who completed in 51.13.

Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk had three third locations, clocking 25.44 in Walsh’s world file 50m butterfly race, recording 57.44 in a 100m medley gained by Walsh in a World Cup file of 55.91 and 55.64 within the 100m butterfly as Walsh set a World Cup file of 53.69.

Britain’s Olympic silver medallist Matt Richards was third within the males’s 200m freestyle in 1:41.76 as US swimmers Luke Hobson and Chris Guiliano completed first and second in 1:41.19 and 1:41.58.

Richards’ team-mate Max Litchfield was third within the males’s 400m medley in 4:05.85.

Italy’s Federico Burdisso additionally completed third within the males’s 200m butterfly in 1:52.06.

Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics