DOHA, Qatar: China’s Pan Zhanle backed up his world file within the relays with a victory all his personal Thursday, whereas American Claire Curzan grew to become the primary swimmer to assert two particular person gold medals on a starring evening for youngsters on the World Aquatics Championships.
The 19-12 months-outdated Pan gained the lads’s 100-meter freestyle at Aspire Dome, 4 days after swimming the quickest two laps in historical past with a time of 46.80 seconds within the lead-off leg of China’s gold medal-successful 4×100 free relay workforce.
He didn’t go fairly as quick the second time round, but it surely was ok for gold. Pan touched in 47.53 to stamp himself as one of many high contenders heading to the Paris Olympics.
“This was very hard,” Pan mentioned. “This is my first (individual) world championship title. I know it’s only the beginning. I will keep moving forward and let’s meet in Paris.”
Curzan, additionally 19, used a blistering begin to declare gold within the ladies’s 50 backstroke, including to her victory within the 100 again. She picked up a 3rd gold as a part of the successful 4×100 blended medley relay workforce.
“I can’t really remember that last time I did a 50 back,” mentioned Curzan, who competes for the University of Virginia. “I’ve had a lot of fun doing it this year. I think it’s great to spread my wings a bit.”
Both Pan and Curzan took benefit of many massive stars skipping the Doha championships to deal with the Olympics.
The 100 free Olympic champion, American Caeleb Dressel, and 2023 world champion Kyle Chalmers of Australia should not at these worlds.
Ditto for Australia’s Kaylee McKeown and American Regan Smith, who went 1-2 in all three ladies’s backstroke occasions finally summer season’s championships in Fukuoka.
Finishing behind Pan, Alessandro Miressi of Italy (47.72) took the silver and Hungary’s Nandor Nemeth (47.78) claimed the bronze.
In the 50 again, a non-Olympic occasion, the silver went to Australia’s Iona Anderson (27.45) and Canada’s Ingrid Wilm (27.61) earned the bronze. That the identical order as the highest three within the 100 again.
In the primary remaining of the evening, Britain’s Laura Stephens gained the ladies’s 200 butterfly, going out sturdy and gutting it out on the finish to the touch in 2 minutes, 7.35 seconds.
Helena Rosendahl Bach of Denmark settled for silver in 2:07.44 and 18-12 months-outdated Lana Pudar grabbed the bronze from lane eight in 2:07.92 — the primary world medal ever for Bosnia and Herzegovina. She edged American Rachel Klinker for the final spot on the rostrum by 0.27.
“All I was thinking about the last 50 was just holding on to technique,” Stephens mentioned. “I guess it worked.”
Finlay Knox gave the makeshift Canadian workforce its first gold medal of the championships within the males’s 200 particular person medley, ending with a powerful freestyle lap to the touch forward of everybody else in 1:56.64.
Carson Foster of the United States took the silver in 1:56.97, with the bronze going to Alberto Razzetti at 1:57.42. The Italian had already taken a silver within the 200 butterfly.
“Historically, I’m pretty slow in the backstroke, and as I’ve gotten older the breaststroke has been a little bit of a struggle as well,” Knox mentioned. “So just making sure I’m strong through that, and then the last 50 everyone knows you just have to dig deep and go for it.”
In the morning preliminaries, world-file holder Sarah Sjöström withdrew from the 100 free, a choice that was not shocking because the 30-12 months-outdated Swede has mentioned she doesn’t plan to compete within the occasion on the Paris Olympics.
HIGH DIVING
With an enormous remaining dive, Britain’s Aidan Heslop claimed the lads’s title off the 27-meter tower at Doha Old Port.
He completed with 422.95 factors within the non-Olympic sport, beating France’s Gary Hunt (413.25) as Romania’s Catalin-Petru Preda claimed the bronze (410.20). James Lichtenstein of the United States was fourth.
Heslop sealed the victory with a ahead 4 somersaults with 3 1/2 twists within the pike place, a dive that has the very best diploma of problem (6.2) ever accomplished at worlds. He acquired 8.0s and eight.5s from the judges.
“When you’ve got the big dives, that’s all you need to be on the top of the podium,” Heslop mentioned. ”Being on the forefront of a few of the largest dives that persons are doing these days is enjoyable. It’s dangerous, but it surely’s enjoyable.”
WATER POLO
Croatia superior to the Saturday championship in males’s water polo with a 17-16 semifinal victory over France on penalties.
The French rallied from three targets down within the remaining quarter to tie the rating at 11, however Croatia made all six of its penalties to outlive.
Italy claimed the opposite spot within the remaining with an 8-6 victory over Spain.
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