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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 | Day 6 | Day 7 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7Start List
We are onto the final day of the World Championships here in Singapore, and will see just four events in this prelims session: the men’s 400 IM, women’s 400 IM, men’s 4×100 medley relay and women’s 4×100 medley relay.
We kick off in the men’s 400 IM, where Leon Marchand is the red-hot favorite after smashing the World Record in the 200 IM earlier this week. He will not be facing off against one of his more longstanding rivals however, with Carson Foster scratching the event after tweaking his ankle prior to the 200 IM final.
This will be just the second individual event of the week for Marchand, and will be only the fifth time he’s been in the water here. He swam three rounds of the 200 IM and on the finals of the 6th-place finishing 4×200 free relay for France, but with the medley relay also on could have up to four swims just today.
Paris silver medalist Tomoyuki Matsushita will race next to Marchand this morning, with Alberto Razzetti and Rex Maurer also entered under 4:10 in heat 4. Neither of those two have looked quite as hot as they’re entry times would suggest, as Razzetti missed the 200 IM final and Maurer missed the 400 free final.
Matsushita did make the final in the 200 IM, finishing 6th, but was off his season best in 1:57.52. His teammate Asaki Nishikawa will have his first swim of the meet on the final day in heat 3, but the main man to watch in that one could be China’s Zhang Zhanshuo. He has dropped best times in the 400 free and 200 free so far, and anchored China’s 4×200 free lreay to silver with a massive 1:44.20 split. His entry time of 4:11.86 could well be destroyed.
Lewis Clareburt, the Oceanian Record holder, has set best times in both of his individual events so far and could be in a centre lane tonight if he dips below 4:10, with the world short course champion, Ilia Borodin, also should be dangerous despite a 4:11.39 entry time. Max Litchfield, who finished 2nd at the last world championships in Doha before finishing 4th for the third Olympics in a row, will also be a threat.
The women’s 400 IM also has its star, with Summer McIntosh returning to the pool after finishing 3rd in and 800 free last night that more than lived up to the hype. In good news for her, she is even more of a favorite that Leon Marchand is in the event so should return to winning ways, seeded nearly 10 seconds ahead of the second seed. The silver and bronze medalists from Paris, Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant, are the next-fastest entrants and will aim to keep alive the U.S. women’s streak of medalling in every individual event.
The 2024 World Champion, Freya Colbert, will swim next to Grimes in heat 2, and has set a big best in the 200 free already in Singapore. Fellow British Isles swimmer Ellen Walshe, who set an Irish record in the 200 IM on the first day, will be on the other side of the American as the 6th seed.
In the men’s 4×100 medley relay, the U.S. will hope that their lineup is enough to get them through to tonight’s final after they missed qualifying in the mixed medley relay with a 10th-place heats finish. They currently have a number of questions over their lineup, with backstroke especially looking like a weakness in a break from recent years. They should put out a team strong enough to make it through, but with a number of European nations looking strong there could be a shock or two who misses out. With the U.S. in the first of the seeded heats, they will need to finish as high in that race as possible to be confident of progressing.
France, Italy and NAB may well be the podium favorites at the moment, but Italy will need to ensure that they don’t miss the final like they did in Paris. China may well need to use both Pan Zhanle and Qin Haiyang in the heats to ensure a favorable lane draw. Three of those four nations, in addition to Australia and Poland, will be in the second seeded heat and should fancy themselves to make the top eight.
NAB will swim out of heat 1, and will need to blast a fast time to ensure it holds up. They should not struggle to do so, but did place 9th in the 4×100 free in a similar situation.
The women’s medley relay has slightly less jeopardy over the finalists, with the U.S. and Australia the favorites for the centre lanes. The Netherlands could be an interesting team to watch, as without a breaststroker they are likely to field an unorthodox lineup, likely with one of Marrit Steenbergen or Tessa Giele on the breaststroke leg. It should be a tight race for the final few spots for tonight, with Sweden, missing Sarah Sjoestrom, likely to wind up outside the top eight.
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