2023 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- July 23 to 30, 2023
- Fukuoka, Japan
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The nation of Australia continued its golden domination of the swimming medal tables through the penultimate night of action in Fukuoka.
Australia’s count of 13 golds with one day left makes this World Championships the first since 2001 when a nation other than the U.S. winds up with the most. Australia’s total already matches its best-ever gold output at a Worlds and sits only behind the 1986 East German team as the most ever collected from a nation not named the United States.
Helping the cause tonight was Cam McEvoy, the 29-year-old Aussie who put up the fastest 50m freestyle time of his career en route to topping the podium. McEvoy of Somerville House Aquatics clinched the victory in a mark of 21.06, inserting himself as the 4th-best performer ever in the event.
Kaylee McKeown made history for her nation by becoming the first-ever female to complete the trifecta of wins in the same stroke at a World Championships.
McKeown sealed the deal with her gold medal-garnering performance in the 200m back this evening, getting to the wall first in a mark of 2:03.85, winning by over one second.
Finally, Australia closed the session with a World Record-breaking swim in the mixed 4x100m free relay. The explosive combination of Jack Cartwright (48.14), Kyle Chalmers (47.25), Shayna Jack (51.73) and Mollie O’Callaghan (51.71) combined to crush a new best-ever result of 3:18.83 to share the podium and bring Australia’s total golds to 13 in all.
Well done to the Aussue coaches getting these swimmers to this level.
Great to see a world record from a club team and their coach Dean Boxall.
There have been many close calls over the recent years, with a few hundredths of a second in some events separating Australia from the gold and the top of the medal table.
However, it’s not just Australia’s performance that has helped but the strength of competitors from around the world. The US have had their own close calls these champs, their swimmers out touched by competitors not from Australia. That distribution of medals has also been a factor.
Not to take away from Australia’s performance… it’s probably the best in a long time.
Although I have to say the Tokyo Olympics were brilliant for Australia and were also a big recent highlight, even though the country did not top… Read more »
Australia is doing very well, to get 1 silver and 1 bronze from open water, 1 gold in diving, 1 gold in high diving, thats pretty impressive, not just limited to the pool swimming. Bodes very well for Paris and beyond. 💚💛
silver in diving too
We have once chance to extend. Australia’s only gold prospect today is the Women’s Medley Relay. Despite all the success this week, on paper USA are still heavy favourites, with their on-paper times an easy WR. Even considering how the week has played out, USA are still favourites but they opened the door slightly on this one.
I still call USA winning by around 3 quarters of a second but we shall see.
Australia by .07.
Well, non-freestyle stroke. I know KL won the 2/4/8/15 in 2015, in addition to winning three freestyle distances…three. other. times.
Damn, never really looked at it like that before.
(Tbf it is “harder” to win a 50/100/200 than 4/8/15.)
This has been your – LANGUAGE IS IMPORTANT Annoying-Ass PSA of the Day!
“For her nation” this is referencing Australia specifically. McKeown is the first Australian female to pull off 3 stroke wins.
Yes they should have called it a “sweep” rather than a trifecta. I can promise you no one is sweeping the freestyles
I didn’t know Ledecky swam for Australia
It’s almost unbelievable. Magic in the water for Australia in Fukuoka?
The biggest thing is that it’s not like a bunch of them have been soft wins, we’ve just stepped our level up against arguably the most impressive world champs field of all time (the rubber circus aside). 5 of the 13 have been world records, a bunch of them have been the fastest time in years, and 12/13 were faster than the winning time from last year.
So proud!
The Paris Olympics can’t come fast enough.
The women’s freestyle events at the Aussie Olympic trials next year are going to be the most hotly contested in history.
I tip my hat to the Aussies, fantastic meet for them.
Looking at that chart, as of now, Australia (0.3% of the world’s population) have as many golds as China, US, and France combined (22.5% of the world’s population).
Now there are expectations. Let’s see if they can carry this momentum to the Olympics.
the population argument is dumb
Make your not-so-dumb argument then
Four hours (and counting) later . . .
The real number we should be looking at is registered club swimmers. Some Google searches indicated 90,000 in AUS and about 330,000 in the US. I think that’s probably even more impressive. No clear number for France I could find anywhere. Not sure what China’s numbers are, hard to get accurate numbers out of that country as their sports operate very differently.
According to American mainstream news, the US is top of medal table.
The US extended their lead over Aus last night with 6 medals to a paltry 4 for Aus. Clearly a disappointing night for Australia in the pool!
Joking aside, apparently Rowdy did clearly acknowledge Aus leading in golds during last night’s broadcast.
How unlike the mainstream media to misrepresent something.