World Aquatics Championships 2025: Abdomen bug seems to wreak havoc with Team USA; Katie Ledecky finishes third in 400 freestyle

The 2025 World Aquatics Championships are underway and Team USA bought off to a gradual begin after a number of swimmers got here down with a abdomen bug.

SwimSwam reported {that a} vital chunk of Team USA suffered from acute gastroenteritis at its pre-world championship coaching camp in Thailand. One coach with an athlete on the staff described the quantity of swimmers affected as “almost half” the roster.

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It was later reported by each SwimSwam and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde that 10 swimmers had been deemed too sick to journey with the remainder of the staff. The subject can also be apparently hitting Great Britain’s staff, which used the identical Thanyapura Phuket resort to arrange for worlds.

In the primary day of motion in Singapore, three-time Olympic gold medalist Torri Huske and rising star Claire Weinstein each pulled out of occasions. USA Swimming announced Huske was pulling out of the 100-meter butterfly, the occasion she gained in Paris, to give attention to the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. The U.S. then completed second within the 400 free relay last simply .44 seconds behind gold-medal-winning Australia — an admirable consequence given star Gretchen Walsh pulled out shortly earlier than the occasion.

Katie Ledecky was capable of compete, renewing her rivalry with Canada’s Summer McIntosh within the 400 freestyle. McIntosh comfortably gained the ultimate in 3:56.26 with Ledecky ending third at 3:58.49. Neither Ledecky nor McIntosh swam close to their finest instances from earlier within the yr.

McIntosh, who gained three gold medals finally yr’s Paris Olympics, is making an attempt to affix Michael Phelps as the one swimmers to win 5 golds at a World Championships. The bronze was Ledecky’s twenty seventh profession World Championships medal.

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Australia gained the lads’s 400 free relay with the United States ending third.

As Forde noted, the American males additionally struggled within the heats for the 400-meter freestyle. All of them missed out on the ultimate after failing to complete within the high 8.

The swimming portion of the World Aquatics Championships are scheduled to happen till subsequent Sunday.