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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 4 | Day 5We are officially on day six of the 2025 World Championships, which means we only have three days left of the meet. This morning’s prelims session promises a lot of excitement, however with one of the most anticipated races of the championships, the women’s 800 freestyle, swimming prelims this morning.
The session will end with three heats of women’s 800 freestyle, where we will get our first look at the brewing battle between World Record holder Katie Ledecky and young superstar Summer McIntosh.
Ledecky broke her own World Record at the beginning of May, going a new best time for the first time in nine years to touch in 8:04.12. She turned around and swam another very strong time of 8:05.76 at the 2025 United States Nationals to win the event.
Her dominance is will known in this event, and until last February, it had been more than 13 years since she had lost the race. The swimmer who beat her last year? Summer McIntosh. At a sectionals meet in February of 2024, McIntosh took nine seconds off her previous best time to touch n 8:11.39 and become the 2nd fastest performer in history. Ledecky swam that race in 8:17.12 to take her first official loss (not winning in the event final) since she was 13-years-old.
McIntosh has only gotten faster since then, and in June, she swam a personal best 8:05.07 to take the gold at Canadian Trials.
The two won’t be racing this morning. McIntosh is in heat two of three and Ledecky will be in heat three, but this will be our first look at tomorrow night’s title race.
We have to wait until the end of the session to see that race, but the rest of the session promises some fast racing as well.
We will start with the men’s 100 butterfly, where Josh Liendo is the top seed with the 49.99 he swam to earn the silver medal in Paris. Olympic champion Kristof Milak will not be racing the event, but there are plenty of men ready to take his place and challenge Liendo’s top seed.
One of which is France’s Maxime Grousset who has the top time in the world this year, having swum a lifetime best time of 50.11 at the French Elite Championships. He is the 2nd seed, coming in just five-hundredths ahead of Swiss swimmer Noe Ponti‘s 50.16 in 3rd. They will also have challengers in the form of Canada’s Ilya Kharun, American Shaine Casas, and Nyls Korstanje from the Netherlands. Casas has been having a very strong meet so far, taking silver in the men’s 200 IM, and he is looking good to earn a higher finish here.
The women’s 200 backstroke comes next, and we will see American Claire Curzan‘s first swim of the meet as the top seed in heat three of five. We do not know if Curzan has been affected by the illness that is running rampant in the US camp. If she was, she could miss the semifinal entirely. Of course, there is also the classic race between Australia’s Kaylee McKeown and fellow American Regan Smith that will play out again, but likely not until tomorrow night.
The men’s 50 freestyle will go next, and a lot of the names from the 100 butterfly will be back in the water for one of the 13 heats. This includes France’s Grousset and Canada’s Liendo. Great Britain’s Benjamin Proud and Australia’s Cameron McEvoy are tied for the top seed at 21.25 with American Jack Alexy in 3rd at 21.36. Santo Condorelli will also take the water for TeamUSA for the first time, officially representing three different countries internationally.
The women’s 50 fly will see American Gretchen Walsh as the top seed, though she scratched the 100 freestyle yesterday morning due to ongoing illness within Team USA. She will swim in the final heat with teammate Kate Douglass, who is seeded 4th, six tenths back at 25.39. Japan’s Rikako Ikee and Australia’s Alexandria Perkins are seeded 2nd and 3rd respectively in 25.33 and 25.36.
The men will swim their 4×200 freestyle relay before the women’s 800s with one heat of eight and one heat of nine. The United States men will swim in heat one, the heat of eight, along with China and Germany and Great Britain will lead heat two with Australia and France on their tails.
Top Seeds
Men’s 100 fly: Josh Liendo (CAN)- 49.99 Women’s 200 back: Kaylee McKeown (AUS)- 2:03.30 Men’s 50 free: Cameron McEvoy (AUS) & Benjamin Proud (GBR)- 21.25 Women’s 50 fly: Gretchen Walsh (USA)- 24.66 Men’s 4×200 free relay: Great Britain- 6:59.43 Women’s 800 freestyle: Katie Ledecky (USA)- 8:04.12Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2025 World Championships: Day 6 Prelims Preview
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