2025 World Championships: Day 5 Finals Live Recap ...Middle East

By James Sutherland on SwimSwam

2025 World Championships

DAY 5 FINALS HEAT SHEET

Event Schedule:

After wowing the crowd with a stunning world record performance on Wednesday, all eyes will be on Leon Marchand tonight as the Frenchman vies to reclaim his world title in the final of the men’s 200 IM.

Marchand, who dropped the 200 breast and 200 fly from his program and thus hadn’t raced at all in Singapore until the 200 IM heats on Tuesday morning, rocketed to a time of 1:52.69 in last night’s semis, obliterating Ryan Lochte‘s world record of 1:54.00 set in 2011.

Marchand will be racing the clock in tonight’s final, while American Shaine Casas and Great Britain’s Duncan Scott have to be considered the frontrunners for the podium after both logging 1:55s in the semis, with no one else in the field sub-1:57.

The session will kick off with the final of the women’s 200 fly, where Summer McIntosh has a chance to win the world title in the event for the third time after also claiming gold in 2022 and 2023. The 18-year-old Canadian will be aiming to keep her perfect record intact at these championships, having already won gold in the 400 free and 200 IM as she pursues an unprecedented five individual titles.

Her biggest challenger figures to be American Regan Smith, who is also the top seed for the women’s 50 back final later in the session, while the number one qualifier coming into the 200 fly is Australian Elizabeth Dekkers, who was a last-minute replacement on the Aussie roster but is making the most of her opportunity.

Another headlining race on the docket this evening is the final of the men’s 100 freestyle, which surprisingly won’t include world record holder and reigning Olympic and world champion Pan Zhanle, who ended up 10th in Wednesday’s semis after seven of the eight final qualifiers came out of the second heat (and Pan was 3rd in the first heat).

Jack Alexy (46.81) broke the American Record to lead the field in the semis, while former world record holder and 2022 world champion David Popovici (46.84) was close behind to advance 2nd, and 2023 world champion Kyle Chalmers (47.36) looked smooth in winning the first semi and qualifying 4th overall.

Along with the women’s 50 back, where Smith and American teammate Katharine Berkoff are the top two favorites for gold, with Great Britain’s Lauren Cox also in the mix after a strong swim in the semis, we’ll also see the final of the women’s 4×200 free relay tonight.

The Australians have won the relay at the last two best-on-best competitions, the 2023 World Championships and 2024 Olympics, but China comes in as the defending world champions and the Americans won the world title as recently as 2022.

McIntosh is notably not slated to swim the relay for the Canadian team tonight, while the top-qualifying U.S. squad will be using Claire Weinstein, Anna Peplowski, Erin Gemmell and Katie Ledecky, while the Aussies will anchor with Mollie O’Callaghan.

In addition to the five finals, we’ll also see semis in the women’s 100 free and 200 breast, and the men’s 200 back and 200 breast, in tonight’s session. Australian Olivia Wunsch scratched out of the women’s 100 free semis due to an undisclosed illness, moving in Great Britain’s Freya Anderson.

Gretchen Walsh scratched out of the women’s 100 free prior to prelims, as did Josh Matheny in the men’s 200 breast, indicating the American team is still dealing with stomach illness.

WOMEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – FINAL

WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – SEMI-FINALS

MEN’S 200 IM – FINAL

MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – FINAL

WOMEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS

WOMEN’S 50 BACKSTROKE – FINAL

MEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS

MEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS

WOMEN’S 4X200 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINAL

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