FUKUOKA, Japan, July 23 (Xinhua) — Three world information, together with the oldest one, fell and 4 out of 5 gold medals went to Australia within the first day’s swimming competitors on the World Aquatics Championships right here on Sunday.
Frenchman Leon Marchand broke Michael Phelps’ 15-year-world file in males’s 400 meters particular person medley when he retained his world title in 4 minutes 2.50 seconds, trimming 1.34 seconds off the earlier mark of 4:03.84.
Phelps’ time, the oldest long-course swimming file, was set on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games when he collected a complete of eight gold medals.
“That was insane,” the 21-year-old Marchand stated after the race. “That was one of the most painful things I did. The best is yet to come. The time is crazy.”
American Carson Foster completed second in 4:06.56 and Japan’s Daiya Seto took bronze in 4:09.41.
Australia turned the most important winner on the night time by successful all different 4 finals.
Double Olympic gold medalist Arianne Titmus claimed the ladies’s 400 meters freestyle title with a brand new world file of three minutes 55.38 seconds, breaking the earlier world mark of three:56.08 set by Canada’s Summer McIntosh in March this 12 months.
American Katie Ledecky, who received three gold medals on the 2016 Rio Olympics and 5 golds in final 12 months’s Budapest worlds, completed second in 3:58.73. The bronze was received by Erika Fairweather of New Zealand in 3:59.59.
McIntosh completed fourth in 3:59.94 and China’s Li Bingjie fifth in 4:01.65.
The third world file was refreshed within the girls’s 4×100 meters relay by Australia.
Double freestyle Olympic champion Emma McKeon anchored them to the gold medal in 3:27.96, breaking the earlier mark of three:29.69 set by themselves on the Tokyo Olympics on July 25, 2021.
The United States took silver in 3:31.93 and China completed third in 3:32.40.
In the lads’s 400m freestyle, Australia’s Samuel Short received. Reigning Olympic champion Ahed Hafnaoui of Tunisia narrowly missed the highest spot by 0.02 seconds and Germany’s Lukas Martens took bronze.
The Australians additionally secured gold within the males’s 4x100m freestyle relay, adopted by Italy and the United States.