BUDAPEST: Katie Ledecky prolonged her report haul of medals and Australia set a world report within the blended 4×100 meters freestyle last on the world swimming championships on Friday.
American star Ledecky received the 800 freestyle last for the fifth time on the worlds to seal her fourth consecutive 400/800/1,500 triple on the occasion.
She clocked 8 minutes, 8.04 seconds to complete greater than 10 seconds forward of her rivals. Australia’s Kiah Melverton was 10.73 behind in second and Italy’s Simona Quadarella 10.96 behind for third.
It’s Ledecky’s nineteenth gold at a worlds and her fourth this week together with the 4×200 freestyle relay.
“Actually good finish to an awesome week,” Ledecky stated.
Her 22 medals are probably the most for a feminine swimmer in world championships historical past. Solely Michael Phelps, who received 26, has extra.
Australia’s blended relay group of Jack Cartwright, Kyle Chalmers, Madison Wilson and Mollie O’Callaghan clocked 3:19.38 within the 4×100 to shave two-hundredths of a second off the report set by the US on the final worlds in Gwangju, South Korea, in July 2019.
“I don’t suppose there was any point out or any expectation or perhaps a thought of having the ability to break that,” Wilson stated. “So to try this and see that on the finish was simply unbelievable and an actual shock for us.”
Canada’s group of Joshua Liendo, Javier Acevedo, Kayla Sanchez and Penny Oleksiak completed 1.23 behind the Australians for silver, and america group of Ryan Held, Brooks Curry, Torri Huske and Claire Curzan was third, 1.71 behind.
Canada’s silver was the nation’s ninth medal this week, eclipsing the eight it received in Gwangju.
Ben Proud received Britain’s first gold of the championships, clinching the lads’s 50 freestyle in 21.32 – 0.09 forward of American Michael Andrew and 0.25 forward of France’s Maxime Grousset.
“We’re lacking fairly a number of key gamers within the pool at the moment,” Proud stated, referring to the absences of Caeleb Dressel, Florent Manaudou and Bruno Fratus. “The entire podium from the Olympics final yr wasn’t within the last.”
Dressel was because of race however withdrew from the worlds for unspecified causes on Wednesday.
“It’s not the identical with out him,” Proud stated. “As quickly as he was out, that fairly modified the dynamics of the competitors. Lots of people had a special kind of stress main in..”
Dressel, the world report holder, was additionally lacking from the 200 butterfly.
Kristóf Milák adopted up his win within the 100 butterfly – the place he lowered his personal world report – by including the 200. The Hungarian swimmer delighted the house followers as he clinched the title in 50.14 forward of Japan’s Naoki Mizunuma and Canada’s Josh Liendo.
Milák joined Phelps and South African Chad Le Clos as the one male swimmers to attain the 100/200 butterfly double at a single worlds.
Sarah Sjöström received her fourth consecutive 50 butterfly title, clocking 24.95 to move off Melanie Henique of France and Yufei Zhang of China for a record-equaling eighth gold medal in butterfly occasions at a worlds. Phelps has to share his report.
American Torri Huske was sixth, 0.50 behind Sjöström, who claimed her 18th particular person medal on the worlds. Solely Phelps, with 20, has extra.
After 5 silver medals, Australia’s Kaylee McKeown lastly claimed a gold when she edged American Phoebe Bacon by simply four-hundredths of a second within the ladies’s 200 backstroke.
Bacon’s teammate, Rhyan White, was third for her first medal at a worlds.
It was the closest end result on this race at a worlds since 1986 when East Germany’s Cornelia Sirch was two-hundredths of a second forward of American Besty Mitchell. Sirch later suffered well being issues that she attributed to her nation’s state doping program.
