Summer McIntosh‘s push for five individual titles at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships continues on Thursday, 31 July, with the women’s 200 butterfly final on Day 5 of the swimming competition.
The Canadian star, who has already bagged the 400 freestyle and 200 IM titles in Singapore, is the reigning Olympic champion in the event, and it would take something special to stop her in Singapore.
Later, Paris 2024 Olympic hero Leon Marchand will hope to land his first medal of the event in the men’s 200 IM.
The Frenchman smashed the world record in yesterday’s semi-finals, and may well do it in the final with the likes of Olympic silver medallist Duncan Scott pushing him on.
Expect a race for the ages in the men’s 100 freestyle final with newly-crowned 200 free world champion David Popovici and Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist Kyle Chalmers the favourites.
Regan Smith will go head to head with USA teammate Katharine Berkoff in the women’s 50 backstroke final, before the grand finale: the women’s 4×200 freestyle relay final.
In this morning’s qualifying session, Mollie O’Callaghan of Australia closed on her second world championships sprint double with the top 100 freestyle qualifying time, while fellow Olympic gold medallist Kate Douglass of the US secured the second-quickest qualification time in the women’s 200 breaststroke. Both women progress to this evening’s semi-finals.
In the men’s 200 backstroke, Paris 2024 Olympic champion Hubert Kos of Hungary progressed to this evening’s semis in the ninth-quickest time of 1:56.71.
The World Aquatics Championships — previously known as the FINA World Championships and often referred to as the World Swimming Championships — have been held since 1973. The Singapore edition marks the 22nd staging of the event.
Follow our live updates across the five finals.