Singapore: The gold medals were spread around on Friday at the swimming world championships, thanks to the absence of stars Léon Marchand of France and Canadian Summer McIntosh from all finals on Day 6 in Singapore.
Marchand, who has already broken the world record in the 200m Individual Medley (IM), will try to break his own 400m IM record on Sunday, the final day.
McIntosh has won three individual gold medals already and will chase two more on Saturday and Sunday as she tries for five individual golds. Only Michael Phelps has managed that at the Worlds.
The biggest race of the championships might be Saturday’s 800m freestyle, with McIntosh and American Katie Ledecky—the world-record holder—as the favorites.
The Netherlands, China, Hungary, and the United States picked up individual golds on Friday. Britain also won its first gold and first medal in Singapore, taking the men’s 4x200m relay.
Through six days, the United States and Australia topped the gold-medal table with five each. The Americans have won 20 overall to 13 for Australia.
Marrit Steenbergen of the Netherlands powered through the last 50m to win the women’s 100m freestyle. Steenbergen won in 52.55 seconds, with silver for Mollie O’Callaghan (52.67) of Australia and bronze for Torri Huske (52.89) of the United States.
China’s Qin Haiyang, who holds the world record, won the men’s 200m breaststroke in 2:07.41, with second for Ippei Watanabe (2:07.70) of Japan and bronze for Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands (2:07.73). Haiyang also won the 100m breaststroke in Singapore.
In the men’s 4x200 freestyle relay, Britain won its first gold and first medal, with a time of 6:59.84.
China took silver (7:00.91) with bronze for Australia (7:00.98). The United States was fourth in 7:01.24. Agencies
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