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2025 World Championships
July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming) Singapore, Singapore World Aquatics Championships Arena LCM (50m) Meet Central How To Watch SwimSwam Preview Index Entry Book Live Results Live Recaps Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3| Day 4 | Day 5 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4Day 5 Finals Event Lineup
Women’s 200 fly final Women’s 100 free semis Men’s 200 IM final Men’s 100 free final Women’s 200 breast semis Women’s 50 back final Men’s 200 breast semis Men’s 200 back semis Women’s 4×200 free relay finalDAY 5 FINALS HEAT SHEET
Welcome back as we chug along through another fast finals session here in Singapore. Now that one world record has been downed, perhaps the floodgates will open for more tonight. Regardless, tonight will be a treat. For the first time in Singapore, both Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh will compete in the same session.
In fact, McIntosh will kick off the night from a center lane of the women’s 200 fly final. Occupying the other center lane will be Elizabeth Dekkers, the 2023 Worlds silver medalist who hit a best time of 2:05.20 this year at Aussie Trials. Other swimmers to watch out for are Regan Smith, who qualified third on the tail end of a 50 back double, and Ellen Walshe, who brings the momentum of a new Irish record in the semis.
Then comes the women’s 100 freestyle semi-finals. Mollie O’Callaghan leads the way as she looks to double up on individual golds after her 200 free victory. Trailing her by a small margin are a swarm of Europeans, including Dutchwoman Marrit Steenbergen and Italian Sara Curtis. The latter is on the hunt for her first individual international medal at these games at 18 years of age.
Is it humanly possible to go faster than 1:52.6 in a 200 IM? That’s a question we might get an answer to during tonight’s 3rd event. Marchand dropped the swim of the meet last night by slicing over a second off the world record in the event, and the world will be watching to see if he can do it again. Marchand will have lots of familiar faces in his heat, as fellow Bowman-trained athletes Shaine Casas, Hubert Kos, and Carson Foster gun for minor medals.
The momentum will not let up after Marchand gets out of the pool, because we go right into the men’s 100 free final. This is always one of swimming’s marquee events, but this year will be especially hectic. After seven athletes from the first semifinal, including world record holder Pan Zhanle were knocked out of a finals berth, no one is safe tonight. If you had to pick a favorite though, it might be 200 free gold medalist David Popovici, or #1 seed Jack Alexy who downed Cesar Cielo’s Americas record last night. Never count on the 100 free’s model of consistency, Kyle Chalmers, either.
The women’s 200 breaststroke holder, Evgeniia Chikunova, made a successful return to international long course competition under the NAB flag this morning by topping the event’s prelims round. Chikunova will lead the second semifinal, while defending Olympic Champion Kate Douglass leads the first one. Further away from the center of the pool, be on the look out to see if 100 breast gold medalist Anna Elendt and 34-year-old veteran Satomi Suzuki can break into the top eight.
After the women’s 200 breaststroke semis, it’s back to another final with the women’s 50 back. Americans Katharine Berkoff and Regan Smith have strong odds, as they’ve been speedy and consistent in this event the entire season. They drew two of the top three seeds tonight, alongside Great Britain’s Lauren Cox, who went from a swim-off for 16th in the heats to boasting the #2 time of the semifinals.
We conclude the individual portion of the session with back-to-back men’s 200 semifinals. First up is the 200 breaststroke. Russia’s Alexander Zhigalov earned the #1 seed through the first round, so he and former world record holder Ippei Watanabe will lead the two semifinals. Zhigalov’s teammate, Kirill Prigoda, will look to avenge a disqualification in the 100 by moving on to the final tonight. As the only medal in both the 50 and 100 breaststroke, Qin Haiyang could position himself to make it three for three this evening. He’s the current world record holder in the event.
In an event dominated by Europeans lately, Canada’s Blake Tierney broke through with an assertive 1:55.17 top heats swim, toppling his national record by 1.5 seconds in the process. Traditional swimming powerhouse Hungary has yet to win a medal this week, but they can position themselves for two chances tomorrow night if Hubert Kos and Benedek Kovacs can both find a way into the top eight. Kos and Regan Smith, both Longhorn athletes, have their hands full with doubles tonight.
The session caps off with the sport’s longest relay, the women’s 4×200 free. This is shaping up to be a classic Australia versus U.S. versus China match-up even in spite of Team USA’s shaky relay showings thus far. Claire Weinstein, Katie Ledecky, and now Anna Peplowski have all shown they’re in top form this week and ready to go. Challenging Australia is still a pretty tall order, as they have World Champion Mollie O’Callaghan, Lani Pallister, and Jamie Perkins, all who have thrown down 1:55 or better this season. Li Bingjie is having the meet of her life here in Singapore, and she and Yaxin Liu will lead China’s cohort against the other two superpowers.
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