Swimming-Steenbergen stuns O’Callaghan to win 100 free, Douglass dominates 200 backstroke

O’Callaghan has already gained three gold medals this week, taking her total tally to 11, and another would see her transfer previous Ian Thorpe to grow to be essentially the most profitable Australian swimmer on the world championships.

Nonetheless, she discovered herself in fourth place after the primary 50 in Friday’s closing and was unable to claw again the deficit as Steenbergen touched first in 52.55 seconds, 0.12 forward of O’Callaghan with American Torri Huske third.

Steenbergen’s victory made her the primary swimmer to efficiently defend their title from final yr’s world championships.

O’Callaghan, who gained gold within the 200 on Wednesday, mentioned her exertions from Thursday’s programme affected her. Along with the 100 semi-finals, she additionally anchored Australia dwelling to win gold within the 4×200 relay.

“I am drained, I am not going to lie,” she instructed Australian broadcaster 9 Community. “Not one of the women did what I did final night time. I am completely happy to stroll away with a medal.

“I am fairly completely happy, and it simply reveals the energy that I’ve and the work I can do sooner or later figuring out that I’ve barely accomplished any coaching for this.”

South African Pieter Coetze was additionally denied a double within the males’s backstroke as reigning Olympic and 2023 world champion Hubert Kos powered to victory within the 200, posting a time of 1:53.19.

Each swimmers had been on world document tempo on the 150 metres mark earlier than the Hungarian inched forward and touched the wall first by 0.17 seconds. Frenchman Yohann Ndoye-Brouard took bronze.

OUTSIDE LANE

With Olympic champion Leon Marchand skipping the 200 breaststroke, China’s Qin Haiyang powered dwelling from lane eight to win gold and make it a double after his victory within the 100.

The world document holder, who swept the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke titles on the 2023 championships in Fukuoka, regarded a spent pressure coming into the house stretch however obtained his second wind to energy previous the competitors on the surface.

Qin clocked a profitable time of two:07.41 forward of Japan’s Ippei Watanabe and Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands.

Qin’s efficiency in Singapore went a way in direction of making up for his poor exhibiting ultimately yr’s Olympics, the place he ended seventh within the 100 and did not even qualify for the 200 closing.

American Douglass was completely dominant within the girls’s 200 breaststroke, swimming a scorching 2:18.50 to document the second-fastest time within the occasion.

The 23-year-old was relentless, surging additional and additional forward of the sphere to win gold by a physique size forward of Russian Evgeniia Chikunova, the world document holder who’s competing as a impartial athlete. South African Kaylene Corbett was third.

Douglass was afforded barely any time to get better from her explosive effort, returning to the pool simply quarter-hour later for the 50 butterfly semi-finals.

The turnaround proved too fast for the American, nonetheless, as she completed 14th quickest and did not make Saturday’s closing, the place compatriot Gretchen Walsh can be favorite so as to add the 200 title to the 100 gold she gained on Monday.

Within the closing occasion of the night, Duncan Scott put in an important shift within the anchor leg of the boys’s 4×200 freestyle relay as Olympic and 2023 world champions Britain gained gold in a time of 6:59.84.

China had been second and Australia took bronze, whereas France had been solely sixth after Marchand was left with an excessive amount of to do within the closing leg.

Australian Kaylee McKeown stays on monitor for a double within the girls’s backstroke, posting the fourth-fastest time within the 200 semi-finals, simply forward of rival Regan Smith. Defending champion Claire Curzan was third quickest.

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