2019 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- All sports: Friday, July 12 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- Pool swimming: Sunday, July 21 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- The Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, Korea
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Through day 4 of the 2019 FINA World Championships, the nation of Australia sits alone now atop the swimming medal table, having earned a total of 9 medals, with 3 gold. Tonight’s top prize for the Aussies was earned via a comeback win in the mixed medley relay, where speedster Cate Campbell entered the pool behind America’s Simone Manuel, but managed to fire off a 51.1 anchor to touch just .02 ahead for gold.
The Aussie teen who beat Katie Ledecky on night 1 in the women’s 400m free, Ariarne Titmus, was back in the pool to give Australia a silver as well in the 200m free.
Australia just needs 1 more medal to surpass their overall total of 10 from the 2017 edition of these World Championships, the competition in which they only took home one gold. They have plenty of more swimmers ready to make that happen, such as Mitch Larkin the 200m IM, Titmus in the 800m free, and the Campbell sisters Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers in the sprint free events, just to name a few.
Italy moved up in a big way today, spurred on by 2 consecutive gold medals in the session. Gregorio Paltrinieri powered his way to a new European Record in the men’s 800m free, producing a time of 7:39.27 for gold. Then, icon Federica Pellegrini topped the women’s 200m free podium in a mark of 1:54.22 to claim her 8th consecutive World Championships podium appearance in the event.
Hungary remains 7th in the medal table, but the nation can claim a World Record now at the meet, courtesy of 19-year-old Kristof Milak.
Heading into tonight’s final as the top-seeded swimmer far and way with his semi swim of 1:52.96, he signaled something special was on the horizon. Milak delivered an Earth-shattering mark of 1:50.73 to surpass American Michael Phelps’ longstanding World Record of 1:51.51. that’s been on the books since 2009.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 | United States | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | China | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Italy | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Canada | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Hungary | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Russia | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 9 | Japan | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Brazil | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals | 18 | 18 | 19 | 55 | |
This is so great ! Loving this medal table
Hate to say it, but while we all knew Kate C. was faster than Manuel, being 1.27 seconds faster is an embarassing disaster for Manuel. Manuel will always have her shining moment of glory in 2016 she shared w/Oleksiak, which was wonderful. But she clearly is not the same anymore. The numbers don’t lie. Murph, King, Dressel did their job, Manuel did not. Team USA needs a new anchor for Tokyo.
I wouldn’t be so quick to count Manuel out! Yes, this is a major disappointment, but Australia is having a smashing meet and as an American I want the US to win but have to hand it to Australia.
Manuel can only beat Campbell if Campbell has a poor swim.
Cate is just flat out better. And it isn’t close.
King and Murphy were a lot further off their best times than Manuel was.
C1 is looking like a big favorite in the 50 and 100 now
C1 is looking like the tallest swimmer on that relay.