For Summer time McIntosh of Canada, it’s one gold medal received on the swimming world championships with 4 to go.
McIntosh is aiming to win 5 gold medals in particular person occasions on the worlds in Singapore, and the primary one got here Sunday within the 400-metre freestyle on the primary of eight days within the pool.
Solely legendary American Michael Phelps has ever received 5 particular person medals within the worlds. He additionally did it on the Olympics.
The 18-year-old McIntosh, from Toronto, prolonged her Canadian-best profession gold medal complete to 5 at long-course worlds, and along with her ninth medal general moved right into a tie with Kylie Masse and Penny Oleksiak for many ever by a Canadian.
McIntosh received however didn’t break her personal world file, profitable in 3 minutes, 56.26 seconds. Li Bingjie of China took silver (3:58.21) with a late cost to depart American Katie Ledecky (3:58.49) with bronze.
A 12 months in the past within the Olympics, Ledecky additionally took bronze within the 400. McIntosh was the silver medalist with gold for Australian Ariarne Titmus of Australia.
Titmus is taking a 12 months off and didn’t swim and has since misplaced her world file within the occasion to McIntosh.
For Ledecky, a nine-time Olympic gold medallist, it was her twenty seventh medal on this planet championships in an astonishing profession.
She received her first Olympic gold in 2012 in London, after which began including world championship medals starting in Barcelona in 2013.
About 25 minutes after profitable the 400, McIntosh got here again and certified first within the 200 particular person medley, clocking 2:07.39. American Alex Walsh was second in 2:08.49. That last is Monday.
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“I’ve by no means accomplished a double like that,” McIntosh stated. “I feel the 400 free, at previous world championships and Olympics, I haven’t been at my greatest. And I haven’t been the place I wished to be. So, to lastly stand within the centre of the rostrum is promising for the remainder of the meet.”
The Canadian added: I feel I’m at my greatest. I’m in the very best form of my life. So now I simply must act on that and put it into all my races.”
The shock of the primary day may need been Chinese language 12-year-old Yu Zidi, who was the seventh quickest in qualifying and can swim within the last.
Requested her response, she replied: “Oh, I’m in,” unaware she had superior.
“I’ll proceed to work tougher,” she added. “I hope to discover a breakthrough at these world championships and present my potential.”
Requested for her response to the competitors, she added. “You possibly can really feel it’s fairly intense. I attempt to not suppose a lot and simply give it my all.”
The 200 IM won’t even be her greatest occasion with the Chinese language probably faster within the 400 IM and the 200 butterfly.
In the meantime, the United States is swimming with what seems to be a weakened staff after officers acknowledged Sunday that some members of the staff had come down with “acute gastroenteritis” at a coaching camp in Thailand previous to arriving in Singapore.
Nikki Warner, a spokeswoman for USA Swimming, wouldn’t say what number of fell in poor health in Thailand. She cited well being confidentiality guidelines. She stated all American swimmers had traveled to Singapore.
Within the different early particular person last Sunday, Lukas Martens of Germany received the boys’s 400 free in 3:42.35, edging Sam Wanting Australia who was .02 behind. Bronze went to Kim Woomin of South Korea in 3:42.60.
Martens is the defending Olympic champion and in addition holds the world file of three:39.96.
McIntosh, who received three gold medals a 12 months in the past on the Paris Olympics, holds the world file within the 400 free — 3:54.18. She’s going to face off once more with Ledecky within the 800 free later within the meet, in all probability probably the most anticipated race in Singapore.
Although she holds the 400 free world file, McIntosh had didn’t win gold within the occasion within the Olympics or earlier world championships.
McIntosh will even be after gold within the 200- and 400-individual medleys, and the 200 butterfly.
Famed Olympian Michael Phelps is the one swimmer to have received 5 particular person gold medals at a world championships.
The opposite two gold medals Sunday have been within the relays. The US was the favourite in each and didn’t win both.
The Australian girls took gold simply forward of the US within the 4×100 freestyle relay. The Aussies clocked 3:30.60 with 3:31.04 for the US. The Netherlands took bronze in 3:33.89.
On the boys’s facet within the 4×100, Australia additionally took gold in 3:08.97. Italy took silver in 3:09.58 with bronze for the US in 3:09.64.
There have been three different semifinal outcomes on Sunday.
Qin Haiyang of China took the 200 breaststroke in 58.24 with Paris Olympic champion Nicolo Martinenghi second in 58.62. The Italian was initially disqualified for shifting on the blocks, however was later reinstated on enchantment.
Gretchen Walsh of the US and Roos Vanotterdijk of Belgium tied within the 100 butterfly in 56.07, and Maxime Grousset of France took the boys’s 50 fly in 22.61.
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