Katie Ledecky’s sustained brilliance and a late gold-rush by her female teammates added gloss to an underwhelming campaign for Team USA at the swimming world championships in Singapore.
Read More Ledecky heroics paper over rocky US campaign at world championships
Katie Ledecky showed it will take a monumental effort to pry the 800 metres freestyle title from her grip after the American great came home more than five seconds quicker that Summer McIntosh in the world championships heats on Friday.
Read More Ledecky throws down the gauntlet ahead of 800 freestyle showdown with McIntosh
Olympic champion Leon Marchand said his decision to opt for a reduced schedule at the world championships in Singapore had paid off handsomely after the Frenchman smashed the 200 metres individual medley world record.
Read More Marchand smashes 200 individual medley world record at world championships
Katie Ledecky claimed a sixth 1,500 metres freestyle title and a record-extending 22nd world championships gold medal in Singapore on Tuesday as Romanian rocket David Popovici added the men’s 200 crown to his Paris Olympic triumph.
Read More The water calls Ledecky to 1,500 gold, backstroke queen McKeown reigns supreme
World record holder Regan Smith was fastest in the women’s 100 metres backstroke preliminaries at the world championships in Singapore on Monday as the American laid down an early marker in her upcoming battle with Australia’s Kaylee McKeown.
Read More American Smith fastest in 100 backstroke heats, Ledecky dominates 1,500
Summer McIntosh set a world record for the second time in three days, eclipsing Hungarian great Katinka Hosszu’s 200m individual medley mark set 10 years ago.
Read More McIntosh breaks Hosszu’s IM world record at Canadian trials