LIVE. 2025 World Swimming Championships: Marchand, still going strong, is golden, schedule and results
The four leaders were within 19 hundredths of a second of each other. Ultimately, Pouch won this closely-packed race. Fukasawa took second place.
In the first semi-final of the men's 200m breaststroke, Japan's Ippei Watanabe took first place ahead of the Netherlands' Gaspar Corbeau.
After Léon Marchand 's podium, the events return to the 2025 World Swimming Championships and the semi-finals of the men's 200m breaststroke.
Speaking to France Télévisions, Léon Marchand has just confirmed that he will participate in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay tomorrow if his team qualifies.
"It's great that this medal is being presented by Tony Parker. He's a legend and it's very special for me. I'm winning a magnificent title and with my friends too. I'm in the relay tomorrow evening if we make it to the final. I don't know if I'll do the 400m medley because it requires a bit more endurance," assures Léon Marchand.
The Frenchman, hero of last year's Paris Olympic Games, wins his first gold medal at the 2025 World Swimming Championships. Tony Parker presents it to him. The Marseillaise can now be played.
"It didn't go any faster than I thought. It was accessible, but it's a tenth of a second. I thought I'd do too well and not make the final," Analia Pigree laments with a smile.
How fast it all went! Berkoff and Smith achieved an American double while Analia Pigree, like Maxime Grousset, finished in seventh place in this 50m backstroke final at the 2025 World Swimming Championships.
France's second medal today? Analia Pigree will be at lane number one, trying to create a surprise in the 50m backstroke final at the 2025 World Swimming Championships.
Both semi-finals were largely dominated. The first by Douglass and the second by Chikunova. This promises to be a very good final tomorrow evening in Singapore, and this afternoon in France.
Douglass won his 200m breaststroke semi-final by a 3" margin ahead of Evans and McCartney.
We'll have to wait a little longer before seeing Analia Pigree in the 50m backstroke final. First, there are two semifinals. These are the women's 200m breaststroke.
Before the rest of the events, Summer Mcintosh climbs onto the podium for the third time this week to collect a gold medal at the 2025 World Swimming Championships.
"It went very quickly. Unfortunately, I didn't keep up the pace. I had everything to gain in this final, but I didn't manage to put together what I wanted. I wasn't as relaxed as in the semi-final. It cost me energy for nothing. I have two races left," Maxime Grousset put into perspective after his seventh place in the 100m freestyle final at the 2025 World Swimming Championships.
The Frenchman finished second to last in a highly competitive final. Popovici won the race and set a new world championship record. He finished ahead of Alexy and Chalmers.
To see the four-time Olympic champion in the pool, we'll have to wait a few days because Léon Marchand has decided to skip two of the four individual races. The 200m butterfly and 200m breaststroke, which were originally scheduled for Singapore, will be out. "It's a choice we made because we're in a post-Olympic year and he's never had the opportunity to compete in the 200m medley without a race before or after the same day. He wanted to try out this isolated 200m medley and see what he was capable of," his coach explained. His program will therefore be as follows: 200m medley, 4x200m freestyle relay (subject to participation), 400m medley, and 4x100m medley (subject to participation).
The World Swimming Championships are taking place in Asia, near Singapore. There will therefore be a very large time difference with France. To watch the "morning" heats, you'll have to get up very early, around 4 a.m. However, for the finals, you can watch the events between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. approximately in France (-6 hours in Singapore).
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