Summer McINTOSH turned off a brilliant world championships with the 400 -meter individual medley (IM) title and a fourth individual gold medal, while the United States set a world record in the 4×100 Medley -Restafette for ladies to win the last title in Singapore on Sunday.
The French Leon Marchand roared to the victory in the 400 meters from the Men IM, while the United States at the top of the medal table with nine gold, one more than Australia.
France finished third with Canada in fourth, all four of their Golds won by 18-year-old McINTOSH, who missed to become only the third swimmer who won five individual medals at a world championships, join Michael Phelps (2007) and Sarah Shostrom (2019).
McINTOSH blitzed the field in the 400 IM with a time of 4: 25.78, the world record holder appeared for more than seven seconds on joint silver medal winners Jenna Forrester of Australia and the Japanese Mio Narita.
The 12-year-old Prodigy Yu Zidi of China finished just outside the stage after he also finished fourth in the 200 IM and 200 butterfly.
Olympic champion McINTOSH’s third 400 IM World title added to its 200 Butterfly and 400 Freestyle Golds in the World Aquatics Championships Arena in Singapore, with only the 800 Freestyle won by the large Katie Ledecky who escapes her.
The frustrating championships of the United States ended on a high note with a record in the 4×100 Medley relay for women in the last event of the eight-day championships. The Americans swam a time of 3 minutes, 49.34 seconds and break their own old record marking of 3: 49.63.
The Americans fought against a case of “acute gastroenteritis” picked up in a training camp in Thailand. The disease clearly influenced the performance of the team in the eight days in Singapore. The Americans only had five gold medals for six days, but won four in the last two when team health seemed to improve.
“This is the best way to end the meeting,” said Gretchen Walsh. “And I feel that we have such a good opportunity if you have this stacked group of women who close it to a relay like this.
“We’re going to put it all in the pool and we’re going to leave Singapore with a smile on our faces,” she added.
Regan Smith, Kate Douglass and Walsh swam the first three legs with Torri Huske who anchored.
Marchand, called the “French Phelps”, missed almost the 400 im-final after a slow heat in the morning, but was back to his best in the evening, with 4: 04.73 clocked to end up well of the Japanese Tomoyuki Matsushita, the Olympic Games of Paris, the second place behind Marchand.
It was a stripped program from Paris, where Marchand won four individual titles, but he let it count with the 200 IM World Record on his way to the title earlier in the week.
Two years after the Ahmed Hafnaoui van Tunisia won the 800 and 1500 Freestyle on the Fukuoka Championships, fellow countryman Ahmed Jaouadi completed the double by winning the 1500 in 14: 34.41 for the German Sven Schwarz and the American Olympic Bobby Finke.
Jaouadi Schoor almost nine seconds of his personal record and said it was a struggle.
“I wasn’t the only one. My body was a lot of pain,” he added. “But because of my thoughts I want this medal and I want to win it.”
The big names can dominate the headlines, but the Australian relay stalwart Meg Harris took attention to herself when she won 50 freestyle gold in 24.02 for the Chinese duo Wu Qingfeng (24.26) and Cheng Yujie (24.28).
The 23-year-old Harris won her first individual title on the world stage after sharing two Olympic and five world relay gold in the past four years.
No Russian athletes participated in last year’s world championships in Doha, but the nation swimmers collected medals in Singapore under a neutral flag.
Russians were allowed to compete on the condition that they did not publicly support the invasion of Ukraine and have no ties with the Russian army.
The Russian climent Kolesnikov stormed to the 50 -return title of the gentlemen in 23.68, only 0.13 of his world record, while fellow countryman Pavel Samusenko took a silver together with South African Pieter Coetze, each ending in 24.17.
Russian swimmers then combined to win a shock gold in the men’s 4×100 medley, giving the world record (3: 26.78) a huge shake with a time of 3: 26.93, a second free of France.
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