Swimming Worlds: Summer Mcintosh Wins 200 Im For Second Gold In As Many Days

Two days. Two golden medals.

Summer McIntosh is disconnected to a cleanable commencement astatine nan swimming world championships successful her effort to triumph 5 individual golden medals, a feat only achieved by American fable Michael Phelps.

The 18-year-old Canadian took nan 200-meter individual medley connected Monday, clocking 2:06.69. The triumph matched nan golden she won Sunday successful nan 400 freestyle. Alex Walsh of nan United States claimed nan metallic successful 2:08.58 pinch bronze going to Mary-Sophie Harvey of Canada successful 2:09.15.

The winning clip trailed McIntosh’s world grounds of 2:05.70. And she was not content.

“Going successful tonight, my extremity was to get my manus connected nan wall first,” McIntosh said. “So to get that done is good. I’m not ace happy pinch my time. But honestly, astatine a world championships, my extremity is conscionable to spell arsenic accelerated arsenic I tin against my competitors. Still happy pinch nan golden and hoping to support up my streak adjacent time.”

Yu Zidi, a Chinese 12-year-old, vanished 4th successful 2:09.21, conscionable missing a badge arsenic she astounds nan aquatics world pinch her times. She is besides owed to compete successful nan 400 IM and 200 butterfly, astir apt her strongest events.

McIntosh will pursuit 3 much golds successful nan 400 IM, 800 free and nan 200 butterfly complete nan adjacent six days successful Singapore.

Gretchen Walsh collapsed done connected Monday pinch nan first golden successful Singapore for nan United States, taking nan 100 butterfly successful 54.73.

The metallic medalist a twelvemonth agone successful Paris, Walsh was conscionable disconnected her world-record clip of 54.60 group earlier this year. Roos Vanotterdijk of Belgium took metallic successful 55.84 and Alexandria Perkins of Australia claimed bronze successful 56.33.

Walsh acknowledged successful a post-race question and reply astatine poolside that nan American squad had been deed pinch a bout of what squad officials called “acute gastroenteritis.”

It was picked up astatine a training campy successful Thailand anterior to presence successful Singapore. U.S. officials person confirmed nan outbreak but person fixed fewer specifications and did not sanction swimmer nor opportunity really galore were affected.

“With nan unwellness that’s been going connected – I faced it backmost nan past mates days – my assemblage has conscionable been fragile, and I deliberation that I’ve needed to springiness myself grace,” Walsh said. “Luckily, I had nan greeting to retrieve and rest, and I utilized that, and that helped maine enormously going into tonight, truthful I tried to make nan astir of it.

“It was not easy, and I’m conscionable really proud of myself,” Walsh added, thrilled to beryllium nether 55 seconds. “It took a batch of guts. I conscionable wanted to spell retired location and do it for my team, conscionable correspond nan emblem well. It came retired of somewhere, but I’m really, really happy.”

Walsh’s older sister Alex was almost moreover pinch McIntosh aft 150 meters, swimming a beardown breaststroke limb to make it a race.

“I was really excited connected nan breaststroke leg,” she said. “I could spot her and I knew I was benignant of gaining connected her because breaststroke is my champion stroke. I was really excited and, evidently coming location connected nan freestyle, that’s decidedly wherever my biggest weakness (is).”

Two different finals wrapped up Monday’s schedule.

Qin Haiyang, nan world champion successful 2023, defeated Paris Olympic victor Nicolo Martinenghi of Italy successful nan 100 breaststroke. Qin clocked 58.23 to springiness China its first golden successful Singapore pinch nan Italian swimmer finishing successful 58.58. Denis Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan took bronze successful 58.88.

“I’ve been injured and it’s not been easy to get backmost to my best,” Haiyang said. “I’m astatine champion astatine 70%. I’m astir apt lucky. This decidedly helps pinch my confidence.”

In nan men’s 50 butterfly, Maxime Grousset of France edged Noe Ponti of Switzerland. Grousset clocked 22.48 pinch Ponti finishing successful 22.51. Thomas Ceccon of Italy took bronze successful 22.67.

In nan 4 semi-finals, Paris Olympics bronze medalist Luke Hobson of nan United States led 200 free qualifying (1:44.80), pinch Paris champion David Popovici of Romania successful 4th (1:45.02).

Hubert Kós of Hungary headed a very accelerated men’s 100 backstroke successful 52.21. American Regan Smith led nan women’s 100 backstroke (58.21) up of two-time Australian Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown (58.44).

Kate Douglass of nan United States swam a individual champion successful nan 100 breaststroke (1:05.49) and will beryllium nan apical seed successful Tuesday’s final.