American Caeleb Dressel grabbed his fifteenth world championship gold medal and his second in two days as he received the 50m butterfly remaining in Budapest on Sunday.
The different three winners on Sunday night time have been all accumulating their first major-championship golds.
Italian Nicolo Martinenghi received the 100m breaststroke, whereas American ladies Alex Walsh, within the 200m medley, and Torri Huske, within the 100m butterfly, took titles.
Dressel took simply 18 strokes and 22.57sec for his newest gold.
“In this sport nothing is given,” stated Dressel. “I knew my race plan: 18 strokes was my money number and it was exactly 18 strokes.”
Dressel, who stated he “felt so lost” after successful 5 in Tokyo, believes the victory “will definitely boost my confidence.”
“It was good, it wasn’t perfect, none of my races are. I’m excited to get that first individual one out of the way, day off tomorrow, then am excited to get 100 free, and then couple of relays.”
“I never come to these to count medals, it’s just about swimming fast, that’s all that’s on my mind.”
Men’s 50m butterfly silver medallist, Brazil’s Nicholas Santos on the rostrum after the ultimate
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At 42, runner-up Nicholas Santos broke his personal file as oldest World Championship medallist.
The Brazilian edged Andrew Michael of the United States by one hundredth of a second to assert silver.
“I’m 42 years old, it’s not so easy to stay here competing with these guys,” Santos stated. “It’s really painful to stay training hard to get to compete with these guys.”
Martinenghi made the many of the absence of Adam Peaty to seize the 100m breaststroke world title.
“To win my first medal as a gold medal in my first final is every exciting,” he stated.
Martinenghi, the bronze medallist in final 12 months’s Olympics, completed in 58.26sec to edge Dutchman Arno Kamminga, who repeated his Tokyo silver with American Nic Fink third.
Peaty has set the 17 quickest occasions within the historical past of the occasion. He received the final two Olympic and final three world titles.
“It’s not the same without Adam, I know, but I am happy to sit in the throne that he left, I am happy to be the first guy that used this moment without him,” stated the 22-year-old Italian.
“I am younger than him. I’m hungry but I think that he’s hungry too. He wants to win a lot more and me too.”
Walsh collected her first gold medal at a significant championships in fashion as she powered away from the sector to win the 200 medley.
The American, the silver medallist within the Olympics final 12 months, beat Australian Kaylee McKeown, winner of two backstroke golds in Tokyo, by 1.44sec.
Another American, 16-year-old, Leah Hayes set a world junior file in third.
Walsh stated she was impressed by a full enviornment.
“I forgot what it is like to have so many people in the crowd, I was shocked, looking up and seeing that the whole stadium was full of people,” she stated. “But it brought me a lot of adrenalin.”
Hungarian 33-year-old Katinka Hosszu, the defending world champion, was seventh, 4.24sec again, regardless of the help of her house crowd.
In the ladies’s 100m butterfly, Huske continued her blistering type from the heats as she surged to victory.
Huske set a private finest 55.64sec to beat French hope Marie Wattel by half a second with Zhang Yufei from China finishing the rostrum.
World file holder Lilly King was solely ninth quickest within the ladies’s 100m breaststroke semis however collected one of many eight slots within the remaining, and the possibility to defend her title, after American team-mate Annie Lazor was disqualified.
Apostolos Christou from Greece set a championship file within the semi-finals of the lads’s 100m backstroke.
Italian Thomas Ceccon, who was second simply 0.03sec behind, additionally broke the file set by Xu Jiayu three years in the past. Jiayu missed the ultimate.
Romanian 17-year-old David Popovici broke the world junior file with a 1:44.40 within the 200m freestyle semi-final.
Austrian Felix Auboeck certified second 0.77sec behind and the previous world junior file holder Hwang Sunwoo of South Korea was third.
Source: www.thehindu.com
