Swimming World Championships 2025 Day 2 outcomes, medals, video, Summer McIntosh gold, Yu Zidi, Alexandra Perkins bronze medal, highlights, Singapore

Rising celebrity Summer McIntosh bagged her second gold on the swimming world championships as an Aussie star claimed a breakthrough medal and 12-year-old Chinese sensation Yu Zidi narrowly missed the rostrum on the second day of motion.

The 18-year-old Canadian McIntosh romped dwelling within the 400m freestyle on Sunday’s opening night time in Singapore and gave one other demonstration of her large expertise a day later within the 200m particular person medley.

She got here dwelling in 2min 06.69sec, with Alex Walsh of the United States second (2:08.58) and Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey third (2:09.15).

“Going into the race tonight my goal was to put my head on the wall first, so to get that done is good,” mentioned the teenage phenomenon.

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“I’m not super-happy with the time, but honestly, at a world championship, my goal is just to go as fast as I can.” McIntosh will even race within the 400m medley, 200m butterfly and 800m freestyle in Singapore.

She is on observe to hitch Michael Phelps as the one swimmer to win 5 particular person titles at a single world championships.

“Still happy with the gold and hoping to keep up my streak next time,” she mentioned.

Yu was fourth in 2:09.21 in her first world championships closing, having been quickest off the blocks and in third place earlier than fading just a little.

The schoolgirl will even compete in Singapore within the 400m medley and 200m butterfly.

“She’s obviously phenomenally talented at such a young age and I think it will be interesting to see how she takes this meet,” silver medallist Walsh mentioned of the Chinese prodigy.

Gretchen Walsh shook off a abdomen bug to energy to a dominant victory within the 100m butterfly.

The world report holder took gold in 54.73sec — the second-fastest time in historical past — forward of Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk (55.84) and Alexandria Perkins of Australia (56.33).

Perkins completed thirteenth within the 100m butterfly eventually 12 months’s Olympics however has loved a breakout 12 months along with her first particular person world championships lengthy course medal a reward for her persistance.

“I couldn’t be happier, honestly,” Perkins mentioned.

“I tried not to expect anything going into that final. I just wanted to put my best foot forward and be proud of what I’ve done. Coming away with the medal is just a bonus.

“I feel like I’ve always been a hard worker with my training but I think a lot of (her improvement) has probably just come from the confidence in racing and having that self-belief and backing myself a little bit more.

“I’m really proud of myself for coming here and handling my nerves.”

The United States group has been hit with a bout of acute gastroenteritis and Walsh mentioned she had been laid low heading into the race.

“The last couple of days my body has been fragile,” mentioned the 22-year-old. “I’ve needed to give myself grace and luckily I had the morning to recover and rest and I used that.

“That helped me enormously going into tonight.”

Walsh set the world report of 54.60sec in May.

She mentioned she needed to “reevaluate my expectations” for the world championships after her battle with sickness however stunned herself along with her efficiency.

“I’m over the moon,” she mentioned.

“I’m really happy that when it mattered, I was able to do that and get my hands on the wall.”

China’s Qin Haiyang set his sights on glory at Los Angeles 2028 after reeling in Olympic champion Nicolo Martinenghi to reclaim his 100m breaststroke crown.

Qin recovered from a gradual begin to win in 58.23sec, beating Italy’s Martinenghi (58.58) and Kyrgyzstan’s Denis Petrashov (58.88).

Qin swept all three breaststroke races on the 2023 world championships in Japan, breaking the 200m world report.

But he crashed and burned eventually 12 months’s Paris Olympics, ending seventh after main the 100m breaststroke closing on the flip.

“I have a lot of anticipation for LA 2028,” mentioned Qin, after the 26-year-old delivered China’s first swimming gold medal of the championships.

Li Bingjie gained silver for China within the ladies’s 400m freestyle on Sunday. France’s Maxime Grousset got here by means of on the loss of life to win the 50m butterfly gold by a fingertip from Switzerland’s Noe Ponti.

The quick and livid race will seem on the Olympics for the primary time at Los Angeles.