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Lilly King, Ryan Murphy add new titles to gold collections at swimming worlds

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.

Olympic swimming champion Tom Dean claims Britain’s first medal at 2022 World Championships

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.

Ledecky dominates 1,500m at world championships, Ceccon breaks backstroke record

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.

Thomas Ceccon breaks world record as Benedetta Pilato completes Italian golden hat-trick

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.