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While the short course world championships were going on, the Ontario Junior International meet was also taking place (also in a 25m pool). 12 year old Shima Taghavi broke 4 national age group records including Summer McIntosh's 200m IM record as well as all the breakstroke events. She even won the 200m breaststroke outright against other 16 and 17 year olds. Meanwhile, 16 year old Madison Kryger also had a big meet winning 6 out of 6 events. Notably, if we compared the times from the world championships, her time in the 100m backstroke would have placed her 13th overall in prelims and her 200m freestyle time would have ranked 15th overall. The most impressive swim might have been the 200m backstroke which would have qualified her for the World Championship final in 8th and was faster than Regan Rathwell's time. 12 year old Huini Xu also broke the national age group record in the 200m freestyle and had some other impressive swims. Results

12 year old Grayson Coulter swam a long course meter 200m freestyle time of 1:54.40! The fastest ever 12 year old. Also had some other incredible swims at the Queensland Championships. 12-Yr-OId Grayson Coulter Of NZL Clocks 1:54.40 LCM 200 Freestyle

So I guess this is what it feels like to be a fan of the Norwegian mens cross country skiing team or German bobsleigh team

and a silver in the 200m freestyle for MSH! So happy for her. Also a Canadian record.

Silver for Summer in the 200m backstroke! Broke Masse's Canadian record in the process.

Well this is McIntosh's first time racing short course metres since 2022 when she was 16 years old and hadn't yet broken any records so that explains those World Records Walsh, Crooks, and Douglass are all NCAA swimmers who train in yards all winter. I'm not sure how many times they would've competed in yards but it wouldn't have been a focus meet for them. Crooks won a gold at the 2022 World Championships but he's taken his swimming to a completely different level these last two years. Douglass competed in short course at the World Cups this year and instantly smashed the 200m breaststroke World Record. Ponti I have no clue. But having said that, there's definitely been an unusual amount of World records at this meet. Got to be the most at a meet since Rome 2009.

I don't think I'll have the time, sorry

Gold for Dandjinou in the 1000m Also bronze earlier in the mixed relay

Yeah, I'll try to do one after all the 2025 winter world cups are over. Thankfully the winter version takes significantly less time and FIS makes my job easier as well by releasing their own simulations.

Well one did advance to the women's 500m semifinals. Otherwise, they've been mostly non-competitive since the Liu brothers switched to China.

This is Walsh's first time swimming in a 25m pool at a major competition. The only other time she's competed in short course metres was one mid-season meet in which she first broke the 100 IM World Record. Otherwise, she usually competes in a 25 yard pool at college events where she holds 5 individual world records and also beats her opponents by a similar margin as to what you're seeing here. She's just that good at short course racing.

So we are up to 13 medals. We need 2 medals tomorrow to tie the record of 15 medals won at the 2021 championships and 3 to break it.

Gold and World Record #3 for Summer!

50m Freestyle World Record for Jordan Crooks!

2010 Olympic 1500m champion Lee Jung-su was competing in the 1500m semifinal earlier in front of his home crowd but crashed and didn't advance.

Gretchen Walsh is absolutely insane! 3 individual golds and 5 individual World Records so far and I would imagine there'll be two more individual golds and a few more World Records yet to come. Completely in a league of her own.

The good news: Silver in the mixed 4x50m freestyle relay. Bronze for Masse in the 50m backstroke. The bad news: Kharun failed to advance to the 100m butterfly final. MSH finished 4th in the 100 IM.

The 400 IM World Record is toast

Commentators think Georgian swimmer is from Equatorial Guinea

USA missed the final in the mixed 4x50m relay Beat out by

Ah yes, new Italian first line centre *checks notes Macklin Celebrini

So Kharun split 20.73 on his butterfly leg today in the relay. That's the fastest split ever by 0.87 seconds. Pretty good first couple days overall I'd say

Could have been a bronze for Tierney and gold in the mixed relay if Russia wasn't competing

Isn't the final tomorrow?

World Record for Gretchen Walsh in the 50m butterfly heats. And something tells me this won't be the only WR she gets this meet.