Women’s 400m Freestyle – Final
Gold: Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md./Stanford Swimming), 3:58.34
Silver: Leah Smith (Pittsburgh, Pa./Cavalier Swimming), 4:01.54
Bronze: Bingjie Li (CHN), 4:03.25
Race Notes:
Quotes:
Ledecky: “It was my second-best time ever, a really good swim for me, and I can take a lot of positives away from it. Every year is not going to be faster … just trying to build towards 2020. There’s no disappointment. It’s a FINA World Championships gold medal and there’s nothing to complain about there."
Ledecky (on Leah Smith): “Just to get that 1-2 finish, I think we’ve kind of been working on that for a while and it was fun to finally do that.”
Smith (on Team USA going 1-2): “It felt really cool, I’ve never gone 1-2 with Katie [Ledecky] at an international meet … last summer I was bronze, so moving up to silver at the international stage was really cool for me especially because I’ve never swam an individual event at Worlds before. I have a big schedule here, so I wanted to start off on a good note.”
Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay – Final
Gold: United States, 3:10.06
Caeleb Dressell (Green Cove Springs, Fla./Bolles School Sharks)
Townley Haas (Richmond, Va./NOVA of Virginia Aquatics)
Blake Pieroni (Valparaiso, Ind./Indiana University)
Nathan Adrian (Bremerton, Wash./California Aquatics)
Silver: Brazil, 3:10.34
Bronze: Hungary, 3:11.99
Race Notes
Quotes
Dressell (on his American record): “It feels really good, I think when I go out, I come home well … I just kind of went for it, and it worked out well. It was seven tenths faster than I was at Olympic Trials.”
Dressell (on preliminary swimmers): “Those guys are just as deserving as all of us here. They got us into the final. Fifty percent of our relay is from the morning, so we need those guys just as much as our night swimmers. They deserve a lot more credit than they get.”
Adrian: “It was exciting, I’m glad to be on the winning end of that race … it’s all about being tough, racing and trying to get your hand on the wall first.”
Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay – Final
Gold: United States, 3:31.72
Mallory Comerford (Kalamazoo, Mich./University of Louisville)
Kelsi Worrell (Westampton, N.J./Cardinal Aquatics)
Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md./Stanford Swimming)
Simone Manuel (Sugar Land, Texas/Stanford Swimming)
Silver: Australia, 3:32.01
Bronze: Netherlands, 3:32.64
Race Notes
Quotes
Ledecky: “It was a good start for the whole team and I think we have some good momentum going for the rest of the meet. It’s a great honor just to be on the relay.”
Worrell: “I think as a team we set a goal from the beginning of training camp that we wanted to make a statement with this relay. It’s been awhile since we’ve been on top. I think we really achieved that, made a statement with that and I think we still have room for improvement which is exciting.”
Comerford: “I was just trying to have fun, enjoy this relay with these girls and go out and win. Being able to share this with them is such an honor, and being able to represent Team USA in a final is just so amazing.”
Manuel: “I really just put my blinders on. I’m best when I’m swimming my own race … I just wanted to get my hand on the wall. It means a lot, like we’ve all said, we talked about this since the beginning of training camp. We really wanted to set ourselves up to win in Tokyo.”
Men’s 400m Freestyle – Final
Gold: Sun Yang (CHN), 3:41.38
Silver: Mack Horton (AUS), 3:43.85
Bronze: Gabriele Detti (ITA), 3:43.93
7. Zane Grothe (Boulder City, Nev./Badger Swim Club), 3:45.86
Race Notes:
Quotes:
Zane Grothe (on his Worlds debut): “It was amazing, being in front of this many people on such a big stage.”
Grothe (on his performance): “I’ve never gone that fast in prelims to be able to make it back to finals. My mind was in a good place, I was ready to race, but it was tough … a learning experience.”
Women’s 100m Butterfly – Semifinal
1. Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 55.77
2. Emma McKeon (AUS), 56.23
3. Kelsi Worrell (Westampton, N.J./Cardinal Aquatics), 56.74
15. Sarah Gibson (San Antonio, Texas/Aggie Swim Club), 58.48
Race Notes:
Men’s 50m Butterfly – Semifinal
1. Caeleb Dressel (Green Cove Springs, Fla./Bolles School Sharks), 22.76
2. Andrii Govorov (UKR), 22.77
3. Nicholas Santos (BRA), 22.84
7. Tim Phillips (Vienna, W. Va./SwimMAC Carolina), 23.25
Race Notes:
Men’s 100m Breaststroke – Semifinal
1. Adam Peaty (GBR), 57.75
2. Kevin Cordes (Naperville, Ill./Unattached), 58.64
3. Cody Miller (Las Vegas, Nev./Badger Swim Club), 59.08
Race Notes:
Women’s 200m Individual Medley – Semifinal
1. Katinka Hozzu (HUN), 2:07.14
2. Melanie Margalis (Clearwater, Fla./St. Petersburg Aquatics), 2:08.70
3. Sydney Pickrem (CAN), 2:09.70
6. Madisyn Cox (Lubbock, Texas/Longhorn Aquatics), 2:09.97
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