World Aquatics Championships: Summer season McIntosh wins second gold as GB declare diving bronze

World Aquatics Championships: Summer season McIntosh wins second gold as GB declare diving bronze


Canadian teenager Summer season McIntosh gained one other gold medal on Monday as she bids to make historical past on the World Aquatics Championships whereas Nice Britain claimed a diving bronze.

After successful the ladies’s 400m freestyle closing on Sunday, McIntosh has an opportunity to equal Michael Phelps’ report of 5 particular person titles at a single world championships.

Her second closing was within the 200m particular person medley, and the 18-year-old gained in two minutes 6.69 seconds, with American Alex Walsh second and Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey third.

Nice Britain’s Abbie Wooden, 26, completed sixth as McIntosh stayed heading in the right direction for a full home in Singapore.

The three-time Olympic champion can also be set to race within the 400m particular person medley, 800m freestyle and 200m butterfly, with the latter being her subsequent occasion on Wednesday.

British divers Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding gained bronze within the males’s 3m synchronised closing in what was nearly a repeat of final yr’s Olympic podium.

They had been once more third with a rating of 405.33, whereas Mexico’s Juan Celaya and Osmar Olvera had been once more second (449.28).

However China’s Olympic champion Wang Zongyuan has a brand new companion, Zheng Jiuyuan, they usually proved too robust with 467.31.

Harding stated: “We have had a troublesome yr with completely different quantities of time without work and coming again after the Olympics with a change of golf equipment [from Leeds to Sheffield], however we wished to come back right here and get one other medal underneath the belt on our journey in the direction of LA [2028 Olympics].”

Laugher added: “I’ve nonetheless received a number of bits to work on however I’ve gained numerous information shifting forwards to the person later this week.”

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix selected to not journey, having struggled with “psychological blocks”, so Lois Toulson, with whom she gained an Olympic bronze final yr, has a brand new companion in Maisie Bond.

Of their first world closing collectively, they had been fifth within the ladies’s 10m synchro platform, as was fellow Briton Ben Proud within the males’s 50m butterfly regardless of ending inside 0.04secs of his nationwide report.

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