Jaouadi completes distance double with 1500m gold at worlds
The Americans swam a time of 3 minutes, 49.34 seconds, breaking their old mark of 3:49.63 set a year ago in the Paris Olympics.
The United States finished with nine gold medals and 29 overall, ahead of Australia with eight gold and 20 overall. France and Canada were next in the gold-medal count with four gold medals. The 18-year-old Canadian star Summer McIntosh won all four golds.
The Americans battled a case of "acute gastroenteritis' picked up at a training camp in Thailand. The malady affected the team's up-and-down performances in Singapore.
Ahmed Jaouadi of Tunisia, winner of the 800 free, added the 1,500 title on Sunday (14:34.41) with silver for Sven Schwarz of Germany (14:35.69) and bronze for American Finke (14:36.60).
Kliment Kolesnikov of the Neutral Athletes won the men's 50 backstroke in 23.68. Kolesnikov holds the world record (23.55). Pieter Coetze of South Africa and Pavel Samusenko of the Neutral Athletes tied for silver (24.17).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania, the world record holder, claimed the 50 breaststroke (29.55) with silver for Tang Qianting of China (30.03) and bronze to Benedetta Pilato of Italy (30.14).
Meg Harris of Australia took the women's 50 free (24.02). Harris was also the silver medalist in the same event in the Paris Olympics. China claimed the next two places with Wu Qingfeng (24.26) taking silver and bronze for Cheng Yujie (24.28).
Marchand won the 400 IM but didn't break his world record. Marchand won in 4:04.73, just off the world mark he set two years ago in Fukuoka, Japan (4:02.50). Tomoyuki Matsushita of Japan took silver (4:08.32) with bronze for Ilia Borodin of the Neutral Athletes (4:09.16).
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