Aug 3 (Reuters) – Summer time McIntosh is on monitor to complete the world championships with a fourth gold medal after being quickest within the 400 metres particular person medley heats whereas Leon Marchand practically missed the boys’s ultimate on the eighth and ultimate day in Singapore on Sunday.
McIntosh cruised to victory in her warmth in 4 minutes and 35.56 seconds for the ultimate afterward Sunday, practically 12 seconds shy of her world report (4:23.65) from Canadian trials in June.
The most important cheers may need been for 12-year-old Yu Zidi, although, because the Chinese language schoolgirl received her warmth to qualify third for the ultimate in 4:36.49, lower than a second off the private finest (4:35.53) that clinched the nationwide title in Might.
Marchand, who took the 200m IM gold after setting a world report within the semi-finals, led midway by means of his 400 warmth however slowed up nearly an excessive amount of within the breaststroke and freestyle legs as he certified seventh for the ultimate within the night session.
Whereas practically three seconds behind Japanese high seed Tomoyuki Matsushita, Olympic champion and world report holder Marchand shall be strongly backed to win his third 400 world title.
With American Carson Foster, the Olympic bronze medallist, pulling out of the heats with an ankle harm, the US didn’t qualify a swimmer within the ultimate for the primary time in over 50 years of world championships.
New Zealand’s defending champion Lewis Clareburt additionally bombed out of the heats.
The U.S. certified quickest for the boys’s 4×100 medley relay ultimate with Jack Alexy swimming the anchor leg for the Paris Olympic silver medallists.
However Olympic champions China crashed out because the ninth quickest nation together with Eleventh-ranked Australia.
The U.S. ladies additionally certified quickest within the medley relay in 3:54.49, a second away from second-ranked Australia, with Germany third quickest.
Eight gold medals shall be contested in a packed programme within the night session, with German iron man Florian Wellbrock gunning for the boys’s 1,500 freestyle title to spice up his bumper haul after sweeping the open water occasions.
Lithuanian world report holder Ruta Meilutyte will bid for a fourth successive ladies’s 50 breaststroke world title since returning to the pool from a two-year ban for anti-doping rule violations in 2021.
(Reporting by Ian Ransom in Melbourne; Modifying by Peter Rutherford)
