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Women's 50m Breaststroke Final Results Ruta MEILUTYTE 29.55 TANG Qianting 30.03 Benedetta PILATO 30.14 Full Final Results HERE

Men's 50m Backstroke Final Results Kliment KOLESNIKOV 23.68 (CR) Pieter COETZE 24.17 (AF) Pavel SAMUSENKO 24.17 Full Final Results HERE

Oh dang, did not have two Chinese athletes medaling in the 50 free on my bingo card

That is the first women's event this meet without an American medal

Coetze with a medal in every backstroke event. Definitely the best male all-around backstroker.

Medley relay lineups: Men: Tierney -> Dawson -> Kharun -> Liendo Women: Masse -> Angus -> McIntosh -> Ruck

Devin Heroux mentioned that Jankovics is sick. Unfortunately the sickness the US team got has been spreading around other teams as well and one of our swimmers finally fell victim to that unfortunately. Maybe some other swimmers who didn't scratch also were sick. We've been pretty lucky otherwise. Australia, for example, did not fare as well.

Another relay favourite bombs in prelims and fails to advance. This time China in the men's medley relay. Every leg underperformed.

After those heats, definitely. Now the question is whether or not they can podium. Likely Liendo will be on freestyle and Dawson was also around half a second faster on the mixed medley relay so there's room to make up some time. China bombing in prelims definitely helps. Australia not qualifying isn't surprising. Their backstroke and breaststroke legs are too weak. Of the teams in the final, we should be comfortably ahead of the Netherlands and Korea. Should be better than GB as well with Tierney's backstroke form. France will likely bring in Marchand for the breaststroke and switch Grousset to butterfly so I think they'll end up being better than Canada in the finals. Now for the teams that finished ahead of Canada, I don't see us beating Russia. It actually might be possible to finish ahead of the US given how inconsistent their men have been these championships. They likely used their A team as well in prelims. We were close to Italy but they'll likely bring in Ceccon for the butterfly leg so they look in good shape. Fingers crossed I guess

I'm guessing Summer will be swimming butterfly. Or if not her, then Harvey on butterfly and Ruck on freestyle.

Medley relay lineups for prelims: Men: Tierney -> Dawson -> Kharun -> Gaziev Women: Masse -> Angus -> Jansen -> Harvey

There is a 12 year old that finished 4th. We'll have to see how she progresses over the next few years.

With another bronze medal, Summer McIntosh now has 10 career individual world championship medals to her name. She's the 14th swimmer in history to do so and she's tied in career individual medals with Cameron van der Burgh, Regan Smith (who won another medal today), Daiya Seto, and Federica Pellegrini. She becomes the 19th swimmer to win 4 individual medals in one world championship. The others are: Caeleb Dressel Claire Curzan Grant Hackett (x2) Hayley Lewis Ian Thorpe Katie Ledecky (x2) Katinka Hosszu Kirsty Coventry Kristin Otto Laure Manaudou Matt Biondi Michael Klim Michael Phelps (x3) Regan Smith (x2) Ryan Lochte (x2) Sarah Sjoestroem (x3) Shirley Babashoff Tracy Caulkins

Actually she was 2nd her first time at Worlds in 2022. She was 4th in 2023. But yes, still an incredible result to be a bronze medalist in your 5th or 6th best event.

Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final Results United States Jack Alexy (46.91) Patrick Sammon (46.70) Kate Douglass (52.43) Torri Huske (52.44) Chris Guiliano* Jonny Kulow* Simone Manuel* 3:18.48 (WR) Neutral Athletes B Egor Kornev (47.69) Ivan Girev (47.08) Daria Trofimova (52.42) Daria Klepikova (52.49) Vladislav Grinev* Alina Gaifutdinova* Milana Stepanova* 3:19.68 (ER) France Maxime Grousset (47.62) Yann le Goff (47.77) Marie Wattel (52.74) Beryl Gastaldello (53.22) Rafael Fente-Damers* Albane Cachot* 3:21.35 Full Final Result HERE

Yep as expected, not even close with Australia missing the final

Women's 800m Freestyle Final Results Katie LEDECKY 8:05.62 (CR) Lani PALLISTER 8:05.98 (OC) Summer McINTOSH 8:07.29 Full Final Results HERE

The dream of 5 golds is over

Here we go! Time for the most anticipated race of the meet!!!

Pieter Coetze 24.32 in the 50 back to win his semi. What a week for him.

Men's 100m Butterfly Final Results Maxime GROUSSET 49.62 (ER) Noe PONTI 49.83 Ilya KHARUN 50.07 Full Final Results HERE

Women's 200m Backstroke Final Results Kaylee McKEOWN 2:03.33 (CR) Regan SMITH 2:04.29 Claire CURZAN 2:06.04 Full Final Results HERE

24.53 in the 50 free for Taylor Ruck. Just misses the final by a couple of spots.

Really a shame. 50.09 is a still a reeeally good time. It's just that the Europeans showed up big time this year.

Bronze for Kharun in the 100 fly!