Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2025

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Men's 100m Backstroke
Final Results

 

 Pieter COETZE
51.85 (AF)

 

 Thomas CECCON
51.90

 

 Yohann NDOYE-BROUARD
51.92

 

Full Final Results HERE

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Oh wow,  Anna Elendt with the upset win!

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Women's 100m Breaststroke
Final Results

 

 Anna ELENDT
1:05.19

 

 Kate DOUGLASS
1:05.27

 

TANG Qianting
1:05.64

 

Full Final Results HERE

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2 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

Another italian silver, the 11th. We are collecting silverware for the next set of cutlery. 

And there's a 99% chance there won't be a gold medal for the first time since 1986. Despite the large number of medals, it will be a failure. Unfortunately, but there should have been at least one gold. It's simply sad and statistically impossible to have 15 medals and no gold. There's always someone faster and we don't have a dominant, plus Ceccon's bad luck today. We certainly deserved this gold more than South Africa, but that's life The Germans, on the other hand, are doing just fine here and they're incredibly lucky. 

Edited July 29 by copravolley

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3 minutes ago, copravolley said:

We certainly deserved this gold more than South Africa, but that's life

Coetze very much was the deserved winner though. If anyone deserved it more, they should have been faster.

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I know it's a post-Olympic year and it's better to have this situation here than at the Olympics, but not winning gold at the World Championships after almost 40 years will be a disaster and even 20 silver medals won't change that.

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4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Coetze very much was the deserved winner though. If anyone deserved it more, they should have been faster.

Any of these three could have won, and that's just luck, not form, and we're unlucky. Meanwhile, the Germans seem to full  of lucky and win everything, like Martens in the 400 meters by 0.02. Statistically, it's simply difficult to understand that someone can have 11 silver medals and 0 gold, while someone else has 6 medals and 6 gold, like Germany.

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1 minute ago, copravolley said:

Any of these three could have won, and that's just luck, not form, and we're unlucky. Meanwhile, the Germans seem to pull it off and win, like Martens in the 400 meters by 0.02. Statistically, it's simply difficult to understand that someone can have 11 silver medals and 0 gold, while someone else has 6 medals and 6 gold, like Germany.

Or whoever finishes the best, which is not entirely luck. I mean, come on, swimming is literally a sport where it's simply about going from A to B the fastest in your very own lane. Whoever is the fastest by definition is the deserved winner. If you finish second or third, you certainly didn't deserve it more.

 

I wish 'we' had 11 bronzes, by the way. Or 3.

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2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Or whoever finishes the best, which is not entirely luck. I mean, come on, swimming is literally a sport where it's simply about going from A to B the fastest in your very own lane. Whoever is the fastest by definition is the deserved winner. If you finish second or third, you certainly didn't deserve it more.

 

I wish 'we' had 11 bronzes, by the way. Or 3.

It's simply that we won't win gold for the first time in 40 years, and that's sad. This is despite the fact that we'll probably have around 20 medals. Even one gold medal in this situation would be statistically weak, but it wouldn't be the worst result since 1986.

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And Ceccon swimed 51.60 in the 100 backstroke in 2022. If he swim at that level now, he would have always won gold. He was fortunate that the level in Paris was lower and with a time of 52 seconds, he won the gold medal.