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World Aquatic Championships: Summer season McIntosh, 15, wins gold & Gargantuan Britain hold relay bronze

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Jun 26, 2022
World Aquatic Championships: Summer season McIntosh, 15, wins gold & Gargantuan Britain hold relay bronze

Luke Greenbank, James Wilby, James Guy and Tom Dean won bronze for GBGreat Britain’s males won bronze within the 4x100m particular person medley whereas 15-year-outmoded Canadian Summer season McIntosh won her 2nd gold on the closing day of the World Aquatics Championships.

It used to be GB’s fifth medal in Budapest, with Italy beating the US by 0.28 seconds in an exhilarating battle for gold.

McIntosh won the 400m medley in four minutes 32.04secs, retaining off 16-year-outmoded American Katie Grimes.

She also won 200m butterfly gold on Wednesday.

“It be truly frigid to bustle someone admire Katie as she is spherical my age and she’s a really sophisticated competitor,” acknowledged McIntosh. “So I’m taking a stare forward to racing her and preserve pushing myself.”

Tom Dean anchored GB’s relay team to clinch his third bronze of the week, alongside Luke Greenbank, who had won particular person 200m backstroke silver, James Wilby and James Guy.

Dean completed third within the actual person 200m freestyle on Monday and used to be phase of the 4x200m freestyle relay squad who also took bronze.

“It be my first time with these boys within the medley relay, I’ve by no diagram completed a medley before so it’s truly special to be a phase of it,” he acknowledged.

In diversified areas, American Hunter Armstrong used to be awarded the arena title following his practising partner Justin Ress being disqualified after finishing first within the males’s 50m backstroke closing.

“It be truly sophisticated,” Armstrong, 21, acknowledged. “On the one hand I’m truly cushty we did it together but I wanted to allotment the rostrum together.”

Proud wins Gargantuan Britain’s first gold in HungaryRess touched the wall 0.02 seconds sooner than world document holder Armstrong but a video analysis disqualified the 24-year-outmoded for finishing the bustle with his entire body submerged within the water.

“I’m very disenchanted my team-mate used to be disqualified and hopefully Personnel USA’s sigh will establish success,” acknowledged a tearful Armstrong after the rostrum ceremony.

Summer season McIntosh, centre, has won four medals in total at the World Championships in BudapestItalian Gregorio Paltrinieri registered the 2nd fastest time in males’s 1500m freestyle historical past to lift his third gold within the event.

The 27-year-outmoded, who most productive qualified seventh fastest, used to be on world document paddle for a period of the bustle before fading to bag in 14: 32.80 – 1.78sec disquieted of Chinese language swimmer Solar Yang’s tag.

Swede Sarah Sjostrom beat Katarzyna Wasick and Meg Harris within the 50m freestyle to lift a 19th particular person medal at the arena championships and 20th total.

Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte won her first world gold since 2013 when she beat Italian 17-year-outmoded Benedetta Pilato by 0.10sec within the ladies folk’s 50m breaststroke closing.

Meilutyte – who won Olympic gold as a 15-year-outmoded at London 2012 – had no longer won a prime championship medal since 2015.

GB’s Dan Jervis completed seventh within the males’s 1500m freestyle, with Anna Hopkin also seventh within the ladies folk’s 50m freestyle on Saturday.

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