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Hungary’s Olympic and world 200m backstroke champion Hubert Kos maintained his lead within the males’s general standings after the second of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2025 legs in Westmont, United States.
The 22-year-old took his file to 6 wins from six within the second of the three scheduled legs, which additionally noticed brief course world data for dwelling swimmer Kate Douglass, who clocked 50.19 within the 100m freestyle, and Australia’s Kaylee McKeown, who recorded 1:57.87 within the girls’s 100m backstroke.
Kos concluded his backstroke racing by taking 0.01 off his nationwide file as he received in 48.78 o stay fifth on the all-time record. It was additionally a World Cup file, decreasing the 2022 mark of 48.84 set by the United States’ Shaine Casas.
“I just took it out,” Kos advised World Aquatics. “Last week I was more conservative on the first 50. This week I just wanted to go for it and see what I could do.
“My last 25, especially the underwater, it was kind of stinging me. It wasn’t a great feeling but that’s what you learn from. I want to just keep pushing myself and see how close I can get.”
Italy’s Olympic champion and lengthy course world file holder Thomas Ceccon was second in 49.60.
Kos now has 116.4 factors, with Canada’s Ilya Kharun second on 113.1 factors.
Kharun earned a second successive 50m butterfly victory over Noe Ponti, clocking 21.69 to the Swiss swimmer’s 21.80. Before the World Cup this 12 months Ponti hadn’t misplaced a brief course 50m butterfly for the reason that 2022 Short Course World Championships.
But Ponti beat his Canadian rival within the 100m butterfly, 48.47 to 49.00. The Swiss athlete additionally completed second within the 100m medley in 50.76 behind Shaine Casas of the United States in 50.45, and second within the 200m butterfly behind Kharun.
Caspar Corbeau of The Netherlands clocked 2:01.68 to win his second straight 200m breaststroke of this tour, the place he has now earned victory in 4 of the six breaststroke finals. He received emphatically over final 12 months’s World Short Course champion Carles Coll Marti of Spain, who recorded 2:03.61.
Britain’s a number of world and Olympic champion Adam Peaty was fourth within the males’s 100m breaststroke in 57.00 in a race received by impartial athlete Ilya Ahymanovich in 56.41 from Corbeau in 56.43 and Japan’s Shin Ohashi in 56.79.
Peaty was additionally fourth within the 50m breaststroke received by Corbeau in 25.52.
US swimmer Alex Walsh received the ladies’s 200m medley in 2:04.44, with Israel’s Anastasia Gorbenko breaking her personal nationwide file with 2:04.93.
Poland’s Katarzyna Wasick received the ladies’s 50m freestyle in 23.30, and Ireland’s Mona McSharry was victorious within the 50m breaststroke in 29.59.
The remaining cease of the World Cup will begin in Toronto on Thursday, October 23, concluding on October 25.
Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics
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