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Tunisia’s Ahmed Jaouadi dominates males’s 800m freestyle as former champions wrestle with sickness
19:06 native time (GMT+8)
The Olympic champions of the 800m freestyle have been dethroned on the primary race of the night with Tunisia’s Ahmed Jouadi producing the third-fastest ever time, and the quickest in a textile go well with, to win his first long-course world title.
The 20-year-old, who was fourth on this occasion at Paris 2024, took the lead forward of the midway mark and elevated the hole till touching the wall in a time of 7:36.88.
Germany’s Sven Schwarz and Lukas Martens stored tempo with the Tunisian as finest they may and completed one and two, respectively with 7:39.96 and 7:40.19 on the clock.
“It feels great. To be honest, especially with this season, I didn’t go back to trainings before March so I didn’t have a lot of time to get ready and be ready for this, especially after the Budapest (2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships 25m) I went into some kind of depression and I wasn’t ready to go back to training at some point,” Jaouadi mentioned, occurring to reference Tokyo 2020 400m freestyle champion and compatriot Ahmed Hafnaoui. “It makes me really happy because this one was for Hafnaoui and he’s having some hard times now and I would like to offer it for him.”
The Tokyo 2020 champion within the occasion, Bobby Finke of USA, fell again initially of the early, however was not capable of produce his signature dash to the end, ending up in fourth in a time of seven:46.42. Meanwhile, fellow Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen set a world document tempo from Lane 1 at first however quickly pale out to complete final within the ultimate. The Irishman’s preparation for the occasion was hampered by a bout of appendicitis.
Sam Short was one other notable casualty of sickness. Arriving to Singapore 2025 with the quickest time within the 800m free on paper, the Australian needed to pull out of the ultimate attributable to meals poisoning.
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