2023-07-28 13:32:13
Quinn achieved a time of 2:05:48 minutes, breaking the Australian record Zack Stableti-Cook (2:05.95d), which he set last year in the national championship, and came second on Friday, behind the Chinese (2:06.40d) and in front of the American Matt Fallon III (2:07.74d). ).
Quinn, 24, became the first swimmer to win the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke titles at a single edition of the World Championships.
The Australian was stripped of his world title, which he won last year, following he also won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021.
Quinn took the lead from the start and was never seriously challenged by his rivals.
France’s Leon Marchand was due to race, but withdrew due to fatigue.
Marchan performed well in Fukuoka, winning the 200m, 400m medley and 200m butterfly titles.
O’Callaghan won the 100m and 200m freestyle titles
In turn, O’Callaghan entered history following winning the 100m freestyle gold medal, as she became the first swimmer to win the 100m and 200m freestyle golds during the same edition.
And the 19-year-old girl had previously won the 200m freestyle gold with a world record, to raise her tally in Fukuoka to four gold medals on Friday, as she also crowned her country with the relay titles 4 times 100m freestyle and 4 times 200m freestyle, with two records as well.
“I’m not going to lie, it’s a very strange feeling. I didn’t even know that no swimmer had ever done this, and to be the first to do it is unbelievable. There are no (appropriate) words to explain it. I’m just elated,” the Australian admitted.
The Australian scored 52.16 seconds, ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics runner-up Shibun Hohei from Hong Kong (52.49 s) and Dutch Marit Stingbergen (52.71 s), raising her total World Cup tally to seven golds following she had previously won the 100m freestyle title in 2022 in Budapest, in addition to My relay title is 4 times 100m freestyle and 4 times 100m freestyle mixed.
O’Callaghan noted, “In previous posts, I was nervous all the time and nervous. This is the first time that I feel calm and I’m just enjoying every moment.”
Another Australian 2020 Tokyo Olympics champion, Emma McCune, finished fifth, bowing to O’Callaghan for the second time in her second confrontation, following the first in April.
“I’m just trying not to get carried away with my emotions and control them right now,” O’Callaghan stressed. “I take it day by day and haven’t really thought through everything.”
Thus, Australia raises its tally in the 100-meter freestyle to 4 golds in the last six editions of the World Championships, following Kate Campbell won the 2013 title, Bronte Campbell the 2015 title, and O’Callaghan herself in the last edition in 2022.
Schoonmaker adds the world title to the Olympic
In the 200-meter breaststroke, South African Olympic champion Tatiana Schonemaker snatched the world title from American Lily King, so that the 26-year-old won her first world title and added it to the silver medals of the 100-meter breaststroke in the current version and the 200-meter breaststroke in 2019.
Schoonmaker scored 2:20.80 minutes, leading American Kate Douglas (2:21.23d) and Dutch Tess Schouten (2:21.63d), while King settled for fourth place.
“I really race for fun. We race the best in the world,” she said. “After coming back from the Olympics it’s been tough the last two years but I’m grateful to have the opportunity to compete with some of the young women here.”
Russian Yevgenia Chikunova set a record of 2:17.55 minutes during her country’s championship last April, but she was banned from the World Cup due to the invasion of Ukraine.
Hungarian Hubert Kos prevented American Ryan Murphy from becoming the first to win the 100m and 200m breaststroke titles during the same edition since Australian Mitch Larkin in 2015, by outperforming him in the 200m, so that the twenty-year-old won his first world title.
The Hungarian scored 1:54.14 minutes, ahead of Murphy (1:54.83 minutes) and the Swiss Roman Mitukov (1:55.34 d), who was hoping to give his country the first individual title in the history of its participation in the World Championships.
Britain won the relay gold 4 times in the 200m freestyle for men, ahead of the 2022 champion, the United States and Australia.
Led by Duncan Scott, Matthew Richards, James Guy and Tom Dean, Britain, the gold medalist at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics, recorded a time of 6:59.08 minutes, with the United States ahead by 94 percent of a second.
This is Britain’s second title in Fukuoka following Matthew Richards awarded it the first in the 200m freestyle.
Despite the presence of the brilliant Marchand, France finished fourth.
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