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6 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
McIntosh wins fourth gold, medley double for Marchand
Olympic champions Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand claimed gold medals in the women's and men's 400m individual medley at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Teenager McIntosh won her fourth gold medal of the week as she finished more than seven seconds clear of silver medallist Jenna Forrester on Sunday with a championship record time of 4 minutes 25.78 seconds. Earlier this week, the 18-year-old took gold in the 400m freestyle, 200m butterfly and 200m medley, as well as bronze in the 800m freestyle on Saturday. McIntosh - who holds world records in both the 200m and 400m medley and the 400m freestyle - won three gold medals and a silver at her first Olympics last summer. Great Britain's Freya Colbert came last after qualifying for the final as the eighth-best swimmer in the heats. Frenchman Marchand scraped through in the men's 400m medley heats with a sluggish performance, but recovered to win gold in 4:04:73 - almost four seconds ahead of silver medallist Tomoyuki Matsushita. The 23-year-old Paris Games hero set a new world record in winning gold in the men's 200m individual medley on Thursday, but was two seconds shy of breaking the 400m world record he set at the 2023 World Championships. Max Litchfield finished seventh, capping a disappointing week for the British team. Marchand later helped France take silver in the men's 4x100m medley relay, as Britain finished sixth. The USA set a new world record in the women's 4x100m medley relay with a time of 3:49.34, while the GB quartet came last. There was a gold medal for Tunisia's Ahmed Jaouadi in the men's 1500m freestyle, adding to the 20-year-old's triumph in the 800m freestyle earlier this week. Olympic silver medallist Meg Harris won the women's 50m freestyle, while Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte retained her 50m breaststroke with a time of 29.55. Kliment Kolesnikov won gold in the men's 50m backstroke with 23:68, though he fell more than a second short of the world record he set three years ago. In the final diving event of the week, Britain's Robbie Lee came 12th in the men's 10m platform as Cassiel Rousseau of Australia took gold. Bright future for GB after tough week Great Britain enjoyed a difficult week in Singapore, winning just five medals and only one gold in the men's 4x200m freestyle. While illness has caused issues in the camp, Aquatics GB performance director Chris Spice does not want that to be an excuse. "We don't try to dwell on that. You only have to look at some of our relay selections in the last couple of days to see some of the people who might have been affected by that," he told BBC Sport. "We're not staying close to other teams, we've tried to minimise the risk of transferring anything between teams. "But of course you're in a heated environment with people all close to each other. It's natural that there is going to be some illness around. That's what it is. We just put our heads down and try and get on with it." There has been a lot of change both in the water and behind the scenes for Aquatics GB, something Spice felt contributed to an underwhelming week. "We've had three British records here as opposed to two last year. Underneath the bonnet, things aren't bad," he added. "We think we've got the best crop of juniors we've had in the last four or five years. Hopefully as we get towards LA [2028 Olympic Games], those two things will come together and the results will start to come. "We've got a very young team, we've got eight people here at their first World Championships. There are a lot of newbies, there is a lot of learning going on. "There were missed opportunities this week, we left two or three medals on the table. "We've got a new head coach, a new team manager. The head of sports science and medicine has gone across to diving. We're all learning about each other and need time to bed in." Great Britain's medals Gold - Matt Richards, Jams Guy, Jack McMillan, Duncan Scott - men's 4x200m freestyle relay Silver - Ben Proud - men's 50m freestyle Silver - Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen - women's 3m synchronised diving Bronze - Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding - men's 3m synchronised diving Bronze - Ranjuo Tomblin and Isabelle Thorpe - mixed duet free artistic swimming Peaty targets four gold medals at 2028 Olympics Spendolini-Sirieix to miss Worlds with 'mental blocks'
Irish Independent
6 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Ellen Walshe just misses out on third final appearance as Ireland round off successful World Aquatics Championships
Walshe, who had already reached the finals in the 200m individual medley and 200m butterfly, finished an agonising ninth in the 400m IM, clocking a personal best morning swim of 4:38.72, just four tenths of a second shy of the last qualifying spot claimed by Britain's Freya Colbert (4:38.31). 'I probably didn't expect it to be so fast," said the Templeogue swimmer afterwards. 'Even when I touched the wall, I was surprised at my time, never mind coming in fifth. I'll definitely take it on day eight, I've had many swims in my system I told the team this morning that I'd be delighted with 4:41, so to see a 4:38 on the board, I was pretty surprised.' Reflecting on her Championships, Walshe added: 'I'm delighted, I've had a quite successful worlds, I've made two finals, and I think to come ninth today, I'll take it. There's definitely loads of learnings to make as well.' On the final day of competition, Ireland's men's 4x100m medley relay team — all first-timers at senior international level — took to the pool, finishing in a time of 3:37.56. The team of John Shortt, Eoin Corby, Jack Cassin and Evan Bailey, all based at the National Centre in Limerick, gained valuable experience at the elite level. Shortt led off with a 54.88 backstroke leg and acknowledged the physical toll of the meet: 'It's the end of a long week, especially coming off the back of European Juniors. It's not my best time, but I'm just happy to be out there with the lads.' Corby, who swam the breaststroke leg in 1:01.09, added: 'It was good craic. Just getting out there with the boys and having fun, it's something we can build on.' Cassin produced a strong butterfly leg in 52.47, improving on his individual PB of 52.84 from earlier in the week: 'It's been a long week, so I'm really happy. Relays are different with more of a team buzz and that really helped me get out of the individual headspace.' Bailey anchored the team with a 49.02 freestyle split, relishing the relay debut: 'It's really nice to see like a refresh on the team, there are four new guys coming up and like it's only up from here. If it's our main focus for the 4x100 medley in the future, we can definitely go a lot faster and work on that in the future. Honestly, I've always wanted to anchor a relay for Ireland, so it was an amazing feeling and I'm really happy with it.'
