The last day of the planet Swimming Championship in Singapore ended without Polish medals. Ksavery Masiuk finished 4th with a 50 m dorsal style, losing just 0.34 seconds to the podium. Katarzyna Wasick placed last in the final 50 m freestyle. Poles return from Singapore with 1 medal - Krzysztof Chmielewski's silver.
20-year-old Ksavery Masiuk, bronze medalist of the 2022 and 2024 planet Championships, this time failed to repeat his successes. In the final 50 m dorsal kind he gained 24.51 and lost 0.83 seconds to the winner. He triumphed in neutral colours Kliment Kolesnikov with a score of 23.68, which is only 0.13 s worse than the planet evidence set by him himself in 2023.
In this competition, 2 silver ex aequo medals were awarded. In the second place the rivalry was completed by the countryman of the triumphant Paul Samusenko and South Africa typical Pieter Coetze with a time of 24.17.
Wasick in last place
Katarzyna Wasick, who was the last to represent Poland in this year's planet championship edition, won 24.74 s and finished last in the 50 m freestyle final. The winner was Olympic runner-up from Paris Australian Meg Harris sometimes 24.02. The silver medal was won by Chinese female Wu Qingfeng with a score of 24.26, and the bronze national Cheng Yujie - 24.28.
33-year-old Wasick has 2 planet championship medals in her achievements: in 2022 she won silver and in 2024 bronze in the same competition. The white-reds will leave Singapore with 1 medal - on Wednesday silver on 200 m butterfly kind won Krzysztof Chmielewski.
Meilutyte for the 4th time in a row
On Sunday there were six another finals without the participation of Poles. For the 4th time in a row, Ruta Meilutyte won the gold medal on a 50 m classical kind with a time of 29.55. The 28-year-old Litwinka is, among another things, the 2012 Olympic champion from London at 100 m, erstwhile she was only 15.
Meilutyte was the only 1 to score little than half a minute on Sunday. The second place was taken by Chinese female Tang Qianting with a time of 30.03 and the 3rd Italian female Benedetta Pilato - 30.14. In the semi-finals of this competition, Barbara Mazurkiewicz was ranked 11th, and in the eliminations of Dominic Sztander in 20th place.
McIntosh and Marchand Domination
On a 400 m changing style, summertime McIntosh confirmed her dominance with a time of 4.25,78. A little than 19-year-old Canadian, triple Olympic champion from Paris, overtook Australia's Jenna Forrester and Japan's Mio Narita by nearly 7.5 seconds. Both finished the race with an equal score of 4.33,26 and will receive silver medals.
Aleksandra Knop took 15th place in the eliminations and did not appear in the final. McIntosh will leave Singapore with 5 discs, including 4 gold ones. It was besides best on 400 m freestyle, 200 m butterfly style, and 200 m floating style, and on 800 m freestyle took 3rd place.
In rivalry of men, the Olympic form from Paris was confirmed by Frenchman Leon Marchand. In Singapore, as in the capital of France, where he had 4 gold medals, he displayed a "dublet" of 200 and 400 m variable style. In the Sunday final on this longer distance he won at a time of 4.04,73 with a clear advantage over the best of nipponese competitors Tomoyuki Matsushita - 4.08,32. The 3rd place was taken by the Russian Ilia Borodin - 4.09,16.
American planet Record
On the 1500 m kind of any of his second triumphs in Singapore was performed by Tunisian Ahmed Jaouadi, who previously was besides best at 800 m. On Sunday he scored 14.34.41. Silver won Germany Sven Schwarz with a failure of 1.28 s, and bronze Olympic champion from Tokyo and Paris and planet evidence holder American Bobby Finke with a failure of 2.19 p.
This year's edition of the planet championship ended the 4x100 m relay with a changing style. Among the men, the best turned out to be those found in neutral colors of Russians, before France with Marchand in the squad and the USA. In the women's rivalry, women's women's Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske sometimes 3.49.34 broke the planet evidence that Smith, Huske, Walsh and Lilly King set at the Paris Games last year - 3.49.63.
Poles - Masiuk, Dawid Wiekiera, Jakub Majerski and Kamil Sieradzki - took 10th place in the eliminations and did not advance to the finals. Polki - Adela Piskorska, Barbara Mazurkiewicz, Zuzanna Famulok and Victoria Gust - ended this competition in 16th position.
(PAP) Note: This article was edited with Artificial Intelligence.
