By CIHAR FAHEY, AP Sports activities Author
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – The kids are high-quality.
Canadian teen Summer season McIntosh gained 200 butterflies for ladies for her first title on the World Swimming Championships on Wednesday earlier than 17-year-old Romanian David Popovici gained second.
Popovic gained the boys’s 100 freestyle so as to add to the 200 freestyle he gained Monday. He’s solely the second man to succeed in double in a world, after Jim Montgomery from the USA in 1973.
15-year-old McIntosh set a time of two: 05.20 – a world file for youth – in 200 butterflies to provide the title to a few Olympic medalists.
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McIntosh completed 0.88 seconds forward of American Hali Flickinger and 1.12 forward of China’s Zhang Yufei. American Regan Smith was 1.59 behind in fourth place.
Popovic, who set a world youth file of 47.13 in qualifying for the 100, needed to struggle exhausting to beat Frenchman Maxime Grousset by 0.06 seconds within the remaining with a time of 47.58.
Joshua Liendo Edwards of Canada, who led the midway level, gained the bronze medal.
Two-time defending champion Caeleb Dressel didn’t compete after withdrawing from the remainder of the race with an unspecified medical situation earlier Wednesday.
Kylie Masse gained Canada’s second and third gold medals from three finals on the fifth night time of world races, profitable the 50 girls’s backstroke 27.31 – 0.08 forward of American Katharine Berkoff and 0.09 forward of French swimmer Analia Pigree.
Masse grew to become the primary Canadian swimmer, male or feminine, to win three gold medals in a world.
20-year-old Léon Marchand then continued his super competitors by profitable the 200m particular person medley at 1: 55.22, decreasing the French file he set within the semifinals.
Marchand completed 0.49 forward of American Carson Foster, 1.00 forward of Japan’s Daiya Seto and 1.21 forward of Chase Kalisz.
It was the second gold medal for Marchand on this world after the 400 blended for males on Saturday, when he virtually took the Michael Phelps world file and his third silver medal within the 200 butterflies on Tuesday.
“I used to be slightly drained this morning,” Marchand instructed reporters.
The ladies’s 4×200 freestyle remaining was scheduled for later Wednesday.
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