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BUDAPEST: Australia's Mollie O'Callaghan stormed to victory to take the women's 100 metres freestyle gold while Americans Lily King and Ryan Murphy took gold in the women's 200m breaststroke and the men's 200m backstroke at the swimming world championships on Thursday (Jun 23).
Two American veterans, Lilly King in the women's 200m breaststroke and Ryan Murphy in the men's 200m backstroke, then won breakthrough gold medals before the US men finished the evening by winning the mens 200m freestyle relay.
BUDAPEST — Lilly King has now won gold in every breaststroke event in her world championships career. Ryan Murphy is now an individual world champion for the first time.
Tom Dean could not quite repeat his achievement from Tokyo 2020 but the Olympic champion has got Great Britain on the medal board at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest. The gold medallist in the 200m freestyle had to settle for bronze in the same event, with Romania’s David Popovici taking victory ahead of South Korea’s Hwang Sun-woo. Ad/> Dean was in contention to win the race having led at the halfway stage, but Popovici touched home first, with the British swimmer recording a season’s best time of 1:44.98.
BUDAPEST: American Katie Ledecky dominated the women's 1,500 metres freestyle event to claim her second gold medal at the swimming world championships in Budapest on Monday, while Italy's Thomas Ceccon smashed the men's 100m backstroke world record.
Ceccon shaved a quarter of a second off the 100m backstroke world record as he won in 51.60sec. "I didn't expect this time," Ceccon said. "I didnt expect to go so fast." Pilato was also delighted after she won the last final of the evening, the women's 100m breaststroke, by a fingernail.
BUDAPEST: Italy’s Thomas Ceccon set a world record in the men’s 100 backstroke and Katie Ledecky claimed yet another gold at the swimming world championships on Monday.
Thomas Ceccon broke the first world record of the championships as he won the 100m backstroke.