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Swimming

Ledecky Ties Debbie Meyer & Donna De Varona For Most Individual LC World Records By U.S. Woman

May 7, 2025 by Tara S

by Daniel Takata | SwimSwam

Last Saturday, Katie Ledecky stunned the world by breaking the women’s 800-meter freestyle world record in long course meters with a time of 8:04.12 at the Fort Lauderdale stop of the 2025 Pro Swim Series.

The feat was remarkable on many levels. Her previous world record of 8:04.79 from 2016 was already impressive, and she managed to surpass it nearly nine years later.

Her most recent world records had been set in 2022 during the World Cup in short course meters, having set new all-time marks in the 800 and 1500 free. However, in long course meters, her last world record was set in 2018, done in the 1500 free at a Pro Swim Series meet.

She now holds 15 world records in long course meters, all in individual events. This ties her with Donna de Varona and Debbie Meyer as the American women with the most individual world records in 50-meter pools. She also equals Danish Ragnhild Hveger and Australian Dawn Fraser, trailing only East German Kornelia Ender, who set 22 individual world records in her career.https://www.instagram.com/p/DJS1aLSA304/embed/captioned/?cr=1&v=14&wp=1080&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fswimswam.com&rp=%2Fledecky-ties-debbie-meyer-donna-de-varona-for-most-individual-lc-world-records-by-u-s-woman%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1238.3000000044703%2C%22ls%22%3A705.3000000044703%2C%22le%22%3A1106.4000000059605%7D

Ledecky, already considered by many as the greatest female swimmer in history, continues to set impressive marks in an aspect that has long made her a legend: longevity.

In the list above, Ledecky’s longevity stands out, as she has broken world records over a span of 12 years. In that list, the closest is Fraser, who broke records in the 100 and 200 freestyle over eight years, between 1956 and 1964.

In fact, the swimmer who has broken world records over the longest time span in history is Sarah Sjostrom, with a 14-year interval between 2009 and 2023. However, those records were in different events. In this regard, within the same event, no one surpasses Ledecky, with just under 12 years between her first and latest world record in the 800 freestyle.

Another interesting fact: Ledecky has set world records in both the 800 and 1500 freestyle six times each. She thus becomes only the third swimmer in history to have broken world records six or more times in two different events. Besides her, only de Varona (eight times in the 200 IM and six times in the 400 IM) and Ender (nine times in the 100 freestyle and six times in the 100 butterfly) have achieved this.

These are just a few more accomplishments to add to the resume of Katie Ledecky, the greatest female swimmer in history.

Filed Under: Swimming Tagged With: Katie Ledecky

Summer McIntosh Bags Third Swimming Canada Female Swimmer of the Year Nod

December 4, 2024 by Tara S

by Matthew De George – Swimming World Magazine

Summer McIntosh on Tuesday was announced as the 2024 Swimming Canada Female Swimmer of the Year.

It’s the third straight year that the 18-year-old has earned that distinction, and she adds a fourth straight Female Junior Swimmer of the Year in this, her final year of eligibility.

McIntosh was one of the stars of the Paris Olympics – among all Canadian athletes and swimmers male or female. McIntosh won gold in the women’s 200 butterfly, women’s 200 individual medley and 400 IM and silver in the 400 freestyle. She set Olympic and World Junior records in the 200 fly and 200 IM. She’s the owner of the 400 IM world record from Canadian Trials in May.

McIntosh started the Paris Olympics with the silver, then ascended to the top step of the podium in each of her other races. The 400 IM brought a margin of victory of nearly six seconds over the field.

The 200 fly, a race in which her mother Jill (nee Horstead) swam at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, went down as her favorite.

“Sharing that moment with my family, Team Canada and friends, everyone there cheering me on was an awesome moment,” McIntosh told Swimming Canada. “The 200 fly is one of my favourite events if not my favourite event. It was amazing.”

McIntosh capped the meet with arguably the most impressive medal of the bunch, beating a star-studded field in the 200 IM by .36 seconds for gold.

McIntosh debuted at the Olympics in 2021, making a late charge in the year’s postponement of the Tokyo Games. She finished fourth in the 400 free behind a stacked podium of heavyweights, was ninth in the 200 free to miss the final and helped Canada’s women set a national record in finishing fourth in the 800 free relay. The expectations of what McIntosh, who turned 15 two weeks after the close of the Tokyo Games, could do in the future were astronomical then. But she’s summarily accomplished many of them.

That included maintaining such a high level despite 13 swims over nine days in Paris.

“Overall the whole week – well it was nine days, longer than a week – was a pretty crazy experience,” she said. “I really tried to take it one race at a time. Getting that silver medal the first night got me going and I tried to get better race to race.”

McIntosh is the first swimmer to win the female swimmer of the year three times since Kylie Masse from 2017-19. Masse and McIntosh are tied for the most individual Olympic medals for a Canadian swimmer with four. McIntosh on Tuesday was also named the only aquatics honoree among Forbes’ 30 Under 30 sports figures.

McIntosh, who shifted her training base before Paris to Sarasota, Fla., now has her eyes on the 2024 World Short-Course Championships in Budapest.

“For world short course we have three new rookies on the team, that’s so exciting,” she said. “It’s amazing being on Team Canada and trying to grow Canada bigger and bigger. It’s really promising and exciting. There are more people my age achieving great things, it’s really cool and we’re improving and getting better.”

Filed Under: Athlete Spotlight, Swimming

Long Wins 30th Paralympic Medal in Gold Medal Performance

September 5, 2024 by Tara S

by Julie Goldsticker | USA ParaSwimming

PARIS – Six-time Paralympian Jessica Long (Baltimore, Maryland) won her 30th Paralympic medal on Wednesday, scoring gold in the women’s 400-meter freestyle S8. Morgan Stickney (Cary, North Carolina) and Christie Raleigh Crossley (Toms River, New Jersey) each added silver medals in the women’s 100-meter freestyle S7 and 100-meter freestyle S9 respectively.

Long’s gold medal is her sixth in the women’s 400-meter freestyle alone and her fourth first-place finish in the event going back to the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. She almost didn’t compete in the race following a silver medal finish in Tokyo but Long’s idol and director of U.S. Paralympics Swimming Erin Popovich provided the encouragement she needed to return to the 400 free.

“After Tokyo, I said to reporters, ‘I’m never doing that race again’ and here we are three years later. It was Erin Popovich who talked to me in December and said Jess, you need to get back into training for the 400 and I’m so glad she gave me that push. I got sixth in the backstroke, and fourth in the IM and I’m just really thankful and grateful. I got to stand on the podium but there’s so many people that should have been up there with me,” she said.

The 32-year-old felt the aches and pains from her competitions earlier in the day. “I woke up today really sore. My back was hurting. I’m so thankful for my coach who just continued to believe in me the whole day. I just remember thinking to myself before I jumped in – do this is for the little Russian girl who never gave up,” Long said.

She acknowledged that winning that 30th medal was important to her, and she accomplished what she set out to do. “I wanted to get to 30. That’s the goal. It’s so hard to prove can I do it again and again. This is my sixth Paralympic Games,” she said. “I was proud of my first Paralympic medal when I was 12 years old and I won by a tenth of a second and this to me is probably right up there. Just going back and showing my friends and family that I won a gold medal, there’s nothing better.”

As she approaches the end of her sixth Paralympic Games with a stacked trophy case, Long still doesn’t allow her medal count to be the full representation of who she is. “It’s amazing but this doesn’t define me. It can’t. I want people to see my work ethic and I want them to see how long I’ve done it and I want them to be proud of that and the fact that I’m still here. That’s a gold medal to me,” she added.

Long will complete her Paris 2024 schedule on Saturday in the women’s 100-meter butterfly S8.

Crossley has been racking up the hardware in Paris and Wednesday was no exception. She followed her gold medal on Tuesday with a silver in the women’s 100-meter freestyle S9. Despite her busy schedule, Crossley is enjoying her time in the pool at the Paris La Defense Arena. “It was fun to race. I’m definitely sore. I just want to go out there and have fun. Swim the best that I can in the pool. Come out with a smile on my face and I think everyone saw that there was a smile on my face tonight,” Crossley said.

She isn’t solely focused on her medal count. “The medal color doesn’t matter to me. It’s just putting out that best effort. Even if that wasn’t a podium, even if it was a fourth place and I gave everything I have. You’ve got to be happy if you’re coming out smiling. There’s zero expectations. It’s all about how we feel when we get done racing,” Crossley said.

She will be back for one more race, the women’s 100-meter butterfly S9 on Friday.

Stickney also put on quite a show in Paris, winning gold in her last event on Monday. She closed out her Paris 2024 Games with a silver medal in the women’s 100-meter freestyle S7 on Wednesday night and although it didn’t go exactly as she hoped, she is grateful to be able to compete. “I feel great. It wasn’t exactly how I wanted to do in the race, but I’m just honored to be here and really grateful to have this opportunity. Six or seven months ago, I didn’t even know if I would be here so to be able to be here and represent my country and come home with two medals is amazing,” Stickney said. “It was a bit of a challenge, but I tried my best and at the end of the day, I’m really happy.”

She says her biggest takeaway is to be able to have her family, supporters and medical team with her in Paris. “Having everyone up in the stands will be my biggest memory. I didn’t have that in Tokyo so being to share this moment with them is incredible,” she added. Today’s race was the final event of Paris 2024 for Stickney.

Filed Under: Athlete Spotlight, Paralympics, Swimming

Aurélie Rivard wins 3rd straight Paralympic title in women’s S10 400m freestyle

September 5, 2024 by Tara S

The Canadian Press 

Canada’s Aurélie Rivard swam to her third consecutive Paralympic gold medal in the women’s 400-metre S10 freestyle event on Thursday at the Paris Games.

The 28-year-old from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., won the final with a time of four minutes 29.20 seconds at Paris La Défense Arena.

Alexandra Truwit of the United States (4:31.39) and Bianka Pap of Hungary (4:35.63) earned silver and bronze, respectively.

It’s the third medal of the Games for Rivard, 28, who holds the world and Paralympic record in the 400 freestyle, set at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021. She has also won silver in the 100 freestyle and bronze in the 50 freestyle in Paris.

Tess Routliffe reached the podium for Canada in the pool just minutes before Rivard.

Routliffe grabbed bronze in the women’s SB7 100-metre breaststroke for her second medal of the Paralympics. The 25-year-old resident of Caledon, Ont., earned silver in the women’s SM7 200-metre individual medley.

Filed Under: Athlete Spotlight, Paralympics, Swimming

U.S. Wins Gold Medal, Sets World Record in 4×100 Mixed Relay

August 6, 2024 by Tara S

henry bushnell

PARIS — The U.S. won swimming’s mixed medley relay here at the 2024 Olympics, recovering from a flop at Tokyo 2021 to beat China and Australia in world-record time.

The U.S. team of Ryan Murphy (backstroke), Nic Fink (breaststroke), Gretchen Walsh (butterfly) and Torri Huske (freestyle) finished in 3:37.43, narrowly ahead of China by 0.12 seconds.

Murphy swam the U.S. into a slight lead over the first 100 meters. China’s Qin Haiyang took back the lead at the 200 with a strong breaststroke leg. But Walsh and Huske, one of the stars of the week for Team USA swimming, closed with fury and held off China.

It was, in many ways, the expected result. And it was the only acceptable result for a country that has long been the giant of this sport; the country that likes to call its Olympics trials — and not the Olympics — the fastest swim meet, top-to-bottom, in the world.

Three years ago, however, the U.S. missed the podium entirely. A team also featuring Murphy and Huske — but questionably constructed by U.S. coaches — finished three full seconds behind Great Britain, way back in fifth place.

This time around, coaches got the lineup right. They selected four silver medalists in their respective 100-meter individual races. And together, as a collective, the silver medalists swam to a relay gold and a world record.

Filed Under: Olympics, Swimming

Summer McIntosh ends Katie Ledecky’s 13-year reign in 800m

February 12, 2024 by Tara S

  • Reuters | ESPN

DOHA, Qatar — Canadian wunderkind Summer McIntosh has ended Katie Ledecky’s 13-year unbeaten streak in the 800-meter freestyle in a major upset in the lead-up to the Paris Olympics.

McIntosh clocked 8 minutes, 11.39 seconds at a sectionals meeting in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday to finish nearly six seconds faster than Ledecky.

Ledecky suffered her first defeat in the 800 since 2010, while 17-year-old McIntosh’s swim made her the second-fastest woman in the distance behind the American world-record holder.

Ledecky still owns the 16 fastest times in history, including her 8:04.79 world record.

The 26-year-old has dominated the 800 like no other, winning successive gold medals at the London, Rio and Tokyo Olympics. She is expected to defend her 800 gold in Paris and bid to become the first woman to win four successive titles in Olympic swimming.

She won her sixth consecutive world title in the 800 at last year’s championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

McIntosh has rapidly established herself as one of the world’s top swimmers, winning back-to-back world titles in the 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter medley.

She has focused on middle-distance events since missing the 800 final in Tokyo as a 14-year-old, but the result in Florida might encourage her to return the 800 to her Olympic program.

Both McIntosh and Ledecky have elected to skip the world championships, which start in Doha on Sunday, but Ledecky’s upset was a hot topic among the entrants in Qatar.

“I have some friends of the Canadian team, and I know Summer pretty well,” said American Hunter Armstrong, who will defend his 50-meter backstroke world title in Doha. “I’ll have to shoot her a text and congratulate her.”

Filed Under: Athlete Spotlight, Olympics, Swimming

Kate Douglass took different strokes to swimming success

January 5, 2024 by Tara S

By: Nick Zaccardi | NBC Sports

Kate Douglass went from squeezing onto the Tokyo Olympic team by two hundredths of a second in 2021 to becoming arguably the world’s most versatile swimmer in 2023, winning six medals at July’s world championships.

At USA Swimming’s annual Golden Goggles awards in November, Douglass shared the stage with Katie Ledecky as co-Female Athlete of the Year winners.

Douglass made the 2023 World team in freestyle, breaststroke and individual medley events. No American woman has swum all of those disciplines over an Olympic career. Douglass could do it over five days in Paris in July. She is an NCAA champion in the butterfly, too.

The 22-year-old native of suburban New York looked ahead to 2024 in a September goal-setting session with Todd DeSorbo, her coach at the University of Virginia.

“I said I wanted to make the Olympic team in multiple events,” Douglass recalled, “and kind of be as dominant as I can this summer.”

“She loved doing things correctly and challenging herself to see how fast you can go using perfect technique,” said Carle’ Fierro, who coached her then. “I would set goals for her, and then once she was close to that goal, I would set another one.”

Westchester swimmers received rubber ducks for personal bests or remarkable efforts in practice. Douglass’ mom, Allison, estimated she collected more than 50.

In January 2015, the reward was ice cream after Douglass qualified for her first Olympic Trials less than two months after her 13th birthday. At the same meet, she took photos with Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte (images courtesy Fierro).

Around that time, she spent 16 months wearing a back brace for 16 hours a day to treat moderate scoliosis. Douglass said that was likely the biggest challenge of her life to this point. She lugged the brace to her first Olympic Trials in 2016, where she raced four events with a best finish of 32nd as one of the youngest swimmers at the meet.

Douglass then spent her last two years of high school swimming at Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club in Stamford, Connecticut. Her coach there, Jamie Barone, had trained with Michael Phelps in the early 2000s at North Baltimore Aquatic Club.

“I watched Phelps go from an unknown 15-year-old to who he is. I swam at a national, international caliber for quite a while, and never in my life have I seen a swimmer move through the water the way Kate Douglass moves through the water,” Barone said of her efficient and deceptively effortless strokes. “She cuts through the water like a knife.”

Swimswam ranked her the No. 1 high school recruit of the class of 2019 in one of their 1,000-plus articles tagging her over the last decade.

Douglass considered schools in California, the longtime hotbed of women’s swimming, but ultimately stayed closer to home at the University of Virginia.

The Cavaliers were coming off a 12th-place finish at NCAAs and a coaching change, hiring DeSorbo to lead a program for the first time.

“She wasn’t going to college to try to make an Olympic team,” Allison said. “(Douglass and DeSorbo) matured together.”

Three more in Swimswam’s top 16 of the class of 2019 also went to Charlottesville. Virginia has since three-peated as national champion, with Douglass turning pro (but not moving) after sweeping all seven of her events at last March’s NCAAs (three individual, four relay).

“She takes days off,” DeSorbo said, “but mainly because I force her to. She gets really anxious and stressed if she feels like she’s not doing enough.”

The nerves were there on the fourth night of the Tokyo Olympic Trials, where the top two make the team in each individual event.

Douglass, after placing third in the 100m butterfly, was seeded second going into the final of the 200m individual medley, a race she hated at the time. It was a hard event for her, and it caused anxiety.

Still, she considered it her last real chance to qualify, though she still had other races remaining.

“That was kind of the first time I’ve ever really been under that kind of pressure,” she said. “Making the team was something I kind of never really believed that I’d do. I just didn’t really want to set that goal for myself and be disappointed.”

Douglass trailed second place by 1.03 seconds after the first 100 meters. She then powered home in her two best strokes — breast and free — to out-touch Madisyn Cox by two hundredths for the second and final Olympic spot behind Virginia teammate Alex Walsh.

“After I made it, I was like, oh, this is legit,” she said, “and then I think that I kept that momentum going.”

In Tokyo, Douglass rallied from sixth place at the midpoint to grab bronze by 11 hundredths of a second. Upon returning home, she donated a bunch of Olympic swag to Westchester Aquatic Club.

In 2022, she took a break from the 200m IM. She won 200m breast bronze at worlds instead.

Then came the summer of 2023. At the U.S. Championships, she won the 100m free and 200m IM, placed second in the 200m breast and third in the 50m free and 100m fly. At worlds, she took 200m IM gold and 200m breast silver, was fourth in the 100m free and anchored four medal-winning relays. Her six medals tied for the most of any swimmer.

“The variety of events that Kate can be competitive on an international level is, as far as I know, unrivaled in swimming history,” Barone said.

Douglass said in November that she will probably race four events at June’s Olympic Trials. She will likely skip the 100m fly even though it’s held on days one and two, and she would have no other events until day four. If trials go well, she can become the first American woman to swim six events at an Olympics (including relays) since Missy Franklin swam a record seven in 2012.

Kate Douglass’ Possible Olympic Trials Schedule

DateSessionEventRound
June 18Day100m FreestyleHeats
Night100m FreestyleSemifinals
June 19Day200m BreaststrokeHeats
Night100m FreestyleFinal
Night200m BreaststrokeSemifinals
June 20Night200m BreaststrokeFinal
June 21Day200m Individual MedleyHeats
Night200m Individual MedleySemifinals
June 22Day50m FreestyleHeats
Night50m FreestyleSemifinals
Night200m Individual MedleyFinal
June 23Night50m FreestyleFinal

“I can’t remember if she said it or I said it, but I think one of the big goals is to try and break the world record in the 200m IM,” DeSorbo said. The world record is 2:06.12. Douglass is the sixth-fastest woman in history at 2:07.09.

Douglass is also working toward a master’s degree in statistics. Her busy summer included a remote data analytics internship with Dell Technologies.

In a Nov. 3 Virginia swimming Instagram Q&A, she said, “I see retirement in the near future. I don’t know when, but it’s coming. And I’m looking forward to it,” according to Swimswam.

She later clarified it was sarcasm.

“I always joke about retiring because I’m like, I can’t wait for retirement,” she said. “But at the same time, I mean, I have no idea. I definitely wouldn’t retire after this summer.”

Douglass admires Maya DiRado, who decided before her first Olympics in 2016 that it would be her final meet. DiRado won gold in her last race, then began a career as a business analyst at age 23. Douglass met DiRado to learn more about that transition.

“She’s so talented and also knows that there’s plenty to life after swimming,” DiRado wrote in an email, “which I hope young athletes, coaches, and parents appreciate when they watch her next summer.”

Filed Under: AOTM, Swimming Tagged With: kate douglass

Paralympic Gold Medalist Morgan Stickney Persevered to Graduate College

August 9, 2023 by Tara S

Charlotte McKinley | Biola University

LA MIRADA, CALIF. — After seven years, countless surgeries and perseverance through suffering, Tokyo 2021 Paralympian Morgan Stickney will graduate from Biola University on May 5, 2023.

Stickney started college in 2016 ranked as a top-20 American freestyle swimmer and swam on Biola’s swim team as a freshman in 2016. Soon after, pain from a previously broken sesamoid bone in her left big toe quickly worsened leaving her unable to compete or swim. In 2017, she developed a staph infection in her foot and the then-20-year-old made the difficult decision to amputate her foot.

Just weeks after her surgery, Stickney was in the pool again. However, similar pain started in her right foot due to a mysterious cardiovascular condition that blocked blood flow to her lower legs. Stickney had to amputate her right foot and became a bilateral amputee.

Stickney kept training and won two Paralympic gold medals in the 400-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter medley relay for the United States in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Recently, she set a new American record in the women’s S7 400 freestyle at the 2023 Citi Para Swimming World Series in Minneapolis. Throughout her training and suffering through surgeries and recovery, she continued to work on her college degree.

“Morgan’s courage, perseverance and deep faith in God have helped her persevere, and we are honored to present her with her hard-earned degree,” said Dr. Barry H. Corey, President of Biola.

Stickney will graduate with a B.S. in Applied Psychology on May 5, 2023 at 7 p.m.

CEO of the YouVersion Bible App, Bobby Gruenewald, is the commencement speaker for both of Biola’s Spring Commencement ceremonies. Gruenewald serves on the Leadership Team at Life.Church as the Pastor, Innovation Leader and Founder.

For those unable to attend in person, a live stream of the ceremonies will be available on the Biola website, and on Biola’s Facebook.

For more information or press passes, please contact Sarah Dougher, media relations coordinator, at [email protected].

FOR MEDIA: Upon arrival to campus, please call (949) 521-1829.

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Filed Under: AOTM, Athlete Spotlight, Paralympics, Swimming, Women's Sports Tagged With: Morgan Stickney

2023 PARA WORLDS DAY 2: USA’S MORGAN STICKNEY SMASHES WORLD RECORD IN WOMEN’S S7 400 FR

August 9, 2023 by Tara S

James Sutherland | Swim Swam

Five world records fell during the second day of competition at the 2023 Para Swimming World Championships in Manchester, including Morgan Stickney obliterating one mark to give the United States its first gold medal of the competition.

Stickney, 26, put up a time of 4:54.28 to win gold in the women’s 400 free S7, knocking nearly five seconds off the previous world record in the process.

Stickney’s time broke the previous mark of 4:59.02 set by Australian Jacqueline Freney in 2012, and she also broke her own American Record of 5:03.16 set earlier this year in Minneapolis.

Three of Tuesday’s world records came in the 100 freestyle, with two male and one female marks going down.

In the men’s 100 free S4, Israel’s Ami Omer Dadaon clocked 1:18.94 to erase the record of 1:19.26 he set earlier this year at the Para Swimming World Cup in Berlin.

In the S6 category of the men’s 100 free, Italian Antonio Fantin also broke his own world record, bringing his 1:03.65 mark from last year’s Worlds down to 1:02.98 to successfully defend his title.

On the women’s side, China’s Jiang Yuyan brought the 100 free S6 record sub-1:11 for the first time, as she put up a time of 1:10.86 to knock off the previous mark she shared with Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko (1:11.07), with the two swimmers having tied for bronze (in the S7 category) in the event at the 2021 Paralympics.

The lone non-freestyle world record broken on the day came in the men’s 100 fly S11, where Ukraine’s Danylo Chufarov logged a time of 1:00.66 to lower the 15-year-old mark of 1:01.12 set by Spain’s Enhamed Enhamed in 2008.

With six gold and eight total medals after the opening day, Italy led the medal table early on, and they extended that on Tuesday, now sitting atop the heap with nine gold and 15 total medals.

Leading things off for Italy on the day was Federico Bicelli, who won the men’s 400 free S7 in a time of 4:40.55 to top Argentine Inaki Basiloff (4:40.96).

Following Bicelli’s lead for the Italians was Fantin, who claimed the men’s 100 free S6, and they also had a victory from Stefano Raimondi, who topped the men’s 200 IM SM10 in 2:10.41. Raimond’s win marked a successful title defense, having won the event last year in Portugal, and he also won silver in Tokyo.

China had a strong showing on the day, moving up to second on the medal table after winning four golds and seven total medals on Tuesday to bring their cumulative tally up to 7/17.

In addition to Jiang’s win in the women’s 100 free S6, China also had Lu Dong set a new Championship Record in the women’s 50 back S5 (38.21), and Yuan Weiyi topped the men’s 50 back S5 in a time of 32.73, leading a 1-2-3 sweep.

The Chinese team then capped the night off by winning the mixed 4×50 free relay 20pts in 2:18.58, setting a new Championship Record.

Great Britain also had a strong day, including a podium sweep in the women’s 100 back S14 as they rank third on the medal table, tied with China with seven golds while trailing by one in terms of overall medal count.

Read more: 2023 PARA WORLDS DAY 2: USA’S MORGAN STICKNEY SMASHES WORLD RECORD IN WOMEN’S S7 400 FR

MEDAL TABLE THROUGH DAY 2

RANKNATIONGOLDSILVERBRONZETOTAL
1Italy92415
2China76417
3Great Britain74516
4Australia43310
5Canada4026
6Brazil34512
7Ukraine3339
8Germany3216
9Netherlands2305
10Hungary2002
11Spain15410
12United States1348
13Mexico1203
14Israel1012
15Greece1001
Republic of Korea1001
17Japan0336
18France0224
19Argentina0134
20Azerbaijan0112
New Zealand0112
22Colombia0101
Croatia0101
Ireland0101
Kazakhstan0101
South Africa0101
27Cyprus0011
Denmark0011
Switzerland0011
Turkiye0011

ALL DAY 2 MEDALISTS

Men’s 400 Freestyle S7

  • Gold: Federico Bicelli (ITA) – 4:40.55
  • Silver: Inaki Basiloff (ARG) – 4:40.96
  • Bronze: Andrii Trusov (UKR) – 4:41.57

Women’s 400 Freestyle S7

  • Gold: Morgan Stickney (USA) – 4:54.28 WR
  • Silver: Ahalya Lettenberger (USA) – 5:22.27
  • Bronze: Sabrina Duchesne (CAN) – 5:31.17

Men’s 100 Freestyle S4

  • Gold: Ami Omer Dadaon (ISR) – 1:18.94 WR
  • Silver: Cameron Leslie (NL) – 1:22.56
  • Bronze: Takayuki Suzuki (JPN) – 1:22.91

Women’s 100 Freestyle S4

  • Gold: Tanja Scholz (GER) – 1:22.18
  • Silver: Lidia Vieira Da Cruz (BRA) – 1:29.43
  • Bronze: Gina Boettcher (GER) – 1:30.31

Men’s 50 Backstroke S5

  • Gold: Yuan Weiyi (CHN) – 32.73
  • Silver: Wang Lichao (CHN) – 32.92
  • Bronze: Guo Jincheng (CHN) – 33.71

Women’s 50 Backtroke S5

  • Gold: Lu Dong (CHN) – 38.21
  • Silver: He Shenggao (CHN) – 41.44
  • Bronze: Sumeyye Boyaci (TUR) – 43.32

Men’s 150 IM SM3

  • Gold: Ahmed Kelly (AUS) – 2:58.59
  • Silver: Marcos Rafael Zarate Rodriguez (MEX) – 3:19.28
  • Bronze: Emmanuele Marigliano (ITA) – 3:29.03

Women’s 150 IM SM3

  • Gold: Tanja Scholz (GER) – 2:53.18 CR
  • Silver: Marta Fernandez Infante (ESP) – 3:03.87
  • Bronze: Ellie Challis (GBR) – 3:13.13

Men’s 100 Freestyle S6

  • Gold: Antonio Fantin (ITA) – 1:02.98 WR
  • Silver: Talisson Henrique Glock (BRA) – 1:04.73
  • Bronze: Daniel Xavier Mendes (BRA) – 1:05.14

Women’s 100 Freestyle S6

  • Gold: Jiang Yuyan (CHN) – 1:10.86 WR
  • Silver: Anna Hontar (UKR) – 1:13.48
  • Bronze: Nora Meister (SUI) – 1:14.45

Men’s 200 IM SM10

  • Gold: Stefano Raimondi (ITA) – 2:10.41
  • Silver: Col Pearse (AUS) – 2:13.68
  • Bronze: Alexy Saffy (AUS) – 2:16.07

Women’s 200 IM SM10

  • Gold: Bianka Pap (HUN) – 2:28.58
  • Silver: Lisa Kruger (NED) – 2:30.15
  • Bronze: Faye Rogers (GBR) – 2:31.50

Men’s 100 Back S8

  • Gold: Inigo Llopis Sanz (ESP) – 1:05.32
  • Silver: Kota Kubota (JPN) – 1:06.40
  • Bronze: Sam Downie (GBR) – 1:08.36

Women’s 100 Back S8

  • Gold: Alice Tai (GBR) – 1:12.11
  • Silver: Xenia Francesca Palazzo (ITA) – 1:19.40
  • Bronze: Tupou Neiufi (NZL) – 1:20.35

Men’s 100 Fly S11

  • Gold: Keiichi Kimura (JPN)  – 1:03.66
  • Silver: Uchu Tomita (JPN) – 1:04.28
  • Bronze: Mykhailo Serbin (UKR) – 1:07.29

Men’s 100 Fly S12

  • Gold: Douglas Matera (BRA) – 58.28
  • Silver: Stephen Clegg (GBR) – 58.41
  • Bronze: Raman Salei (AZE) – 58.73

Women’s 100 Fly S12

  • Gold: Maria Carolina Gomes Santiago (BRA) – 1:05.68
  • Silver: Maria Delgado Nadal (ESP) – 1:06.87
  • Bronze: Alessia Berra (ITA) – 1:06.98

Men’s 100 Back S14

  • Gold: Benjamin Hance (AUS) – 57.26 CR
  • Silver: Gabriel Bandeira (BRA) – 59.05
  • Bronze: Alexander Hillhouse (DEN) – 59.86

Women’s 100 Back S14

  • Gold: Bethany Firth (GBR) – 1:05.80 CR
  • Silver: Poppy Maskill (GBR) – 1:05.87
  • Bronze: Georgia Sheffield (GBR) – 1:08.61

Men’s 100 Breast SB13

  • Gold: Taliso Engel (GER) – 1:03.26 CR
  • Silver: Nurdaulet Zhumagali (KAZ) – 1:05.16
  • Bronze: David Henry Abrahams (USA) – 1:05.55

Women’s 100 Breast SB13

  • Gold: Rebecca Redfern (GBR) – 1:15.01
  • Silver: Colleen Young (USA) – 1:15.89
  • Bronze: Olivia Chambers (USA) – 1:18.45

Men’s 200 IM SM9

  • Gold: Timothy Hodge (AUS) – 2:12.74 CR
  • Silver: Ugo Didier (FRA) – 2:17.15
  • Bronze: Federico Morlacchi (ITA) – 2:21.26

Women’s 200 IM SM9

  • Gold: Zsofia Konkoly (HUN) – 2:35.91
  • Silver: Nuria Marques Soto (ESP) – 2:36.67
  • Bronze: Sarai Gascon (ESP) – 2:37.13

Mixed 4×50 Free Relay 20pts

  • Gold: China – 2:18.58 CR
  • Silver: Brazil – 2:23.65
  • Bronze: Ukraine – 2:25.93

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