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Last Updated: February 18, 2024, 00:00 IST
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Standout swimmers Claire Curzan of the United States and Pan Zhanle of China gained their fourth gold medals on the world championships on Saturday.
DOHA, Qatar: Standout swimmers Claire Curzan of the United States and Pan Zhanle of China gained their fourth gold medals on the world championships on Saturday.
Curzan was in management throughout the 200-meter backstroke closing as she gained by 1.26 seconds from 17-yr-outdated Australian Jaclyn Barclay. Curzan accomplished her set of backstroke gold medals after earlier profitable the 50 and 100, plus the 4×100 combined medley relay.
“I’m honestly just really happy to be done,” she stated. “I’m just happy with how I was able to swim and excited for what this means for the future.”
Anastasiya Shkurdai, a Belarusian competing as a impartial athlete, gained the bronze.
Pan and China gained the 4×100 combined freestyle relay, which isn’t on the Olympic program, forward of Australia and the U.S. There was one other robust lead-off swim from Pan, who earlier within the championships swam the quickest 100 meters in historical past through the 4×100 males’s freestyle relay. It was his third gold medal of the worlds in relays.
Ukraine’s Vladyslav Bukhov produced the shock of the night time within the 50 freestyle when he upset final yr’s winner Cameron McEvoy to triumph.
Bukhov began slowly however timed his closing attain for the wall completely to win in 21.44 seconds, beating McEvoy by .01. Ben Proud of Britain gained the bronze.
Australia’s McEvoy swum 21.13 seconds within the heats, .21 off the world file set by Cesar Cielo in 2009, however was slower within the semifinals and closing. Ahead of the Olympics in Paris, “I would have liked to have gone a little bit better in the final but I’ve got to be happy with the three (swims) in total,” McEvoy stated.
Katie Ledecky’s streak of world titles within the 800 free ended when Simona Quadarella of Italy took the gold — although Ledecky wasn’t on the meet. Quadarella was neck and neck with Germany’s Isabel Gose however beat her to the touch the wall by .09 seconds. Erika Fairweather of New Zealand was third.
Quadarella gained double gold within the lengthy-distance occasions after her earlier victory within the 1,500.
Ledecky, who gained the occasion six instances in a row, is likely one of the many high swimmers skipping the worlds to give attention to constructing to the Paris Olympics.
Portugal’s Diogo Matos Ribeiro gained the 100 butterfly so as to add to his gold medal from the 50 fly earlier within the championships. The silver went to Austria’s Simon Bucher and bronze to Poland’s Jakub Majerski. World champion Maxime Grousset and Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel have been absent.
Sarah Sjöström of Sweden gained the 50 butterfly, a non-Olympic occasion, for the sixth time in a row on the worlds, forward of France’s Melanie Henique and Egypt’s Farida Osman.
WATER POLO
Croatia beat Italy in a shootout for the lads’s water polo gold medal after an 11-11 tie in regulation for its first world title since 2017.
Italy was on the right track to win till Croatia’s Rino Buric scored with 5 seconds remaining to drive the shootout.
Spain beat France 14-10 for the bronze.
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