The United States came away with four more medals on night six of the 2013 FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, cracking the 20-medal barrier with two days still to come (22 overall, including 10 gold). The highlights of the night for Team USA came from first place finishes in the men’s 200 back (Ryan Lochte) and 800 freestyle relay (Conor Dwyer, Ryan Lochte, Charlie Houchin, and Ricky Berens).
Yuliya Efimova of Russia had arguably the biggest swim of the night in the women’s 200 breaststroke, upsetting world record holder Rikke Moller Pedersen of Denmark. After a blistering 2:19.11 semis swim, Pedersen looked like she would be in control of the final. Efimova responded with a brilliant swim of her own tonight, staying close over the first 100 before storming home past Pedersen in the final two laps, touching in 2:19.41.
Some more notes from tonight…
- Night six gave us the greatest distribution of medals thus far. Eleven different countries came away with at least one of the possible 15 medals, with only the United States and Russia taking home more than one.
- Matti Mattsson of Finland came away with a surprising bronze medal in the men’s 200 breast, touching in 2:08.95. The 19-year-old Mattsson was just 17th last summer in London.
- Germany brought home its first medal of the championships, courtesy of Marco Koch in the men’s 200 breast. Koch followed up his impressive semifinals swim with a second place finish behind champion Daniel Gyurta of Hungary, finishing in 2:08.54.
- Great Britain missed out on arguably its best chance for a medal, with Andrew Willis and Michael Jamieson failing to make the podium in the men’s 200 breaststroke. Willis was the third seed coming out of semifinals, while Jamieson’s 2:07.78 seed time headed into Barcelona was easily number one in the world before tonight. The Brits last good chance is Fran Halsall in the women’s 50 free (she’s seeded third).
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2013 World Championship Medals – Day 6 |
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Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
|
| USA |
2 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
| Russia |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
| Hungary |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Australia |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Poland |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Germany |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Denmark |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Sweden |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| China |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Finland |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Netherlands |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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2013 World Championship Medals – Overall |
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|
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
|
| USA |
10 |
6 |
6 |
22 |
| China |
4 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
| Australia |
3 |
6 |
0 |
9 |
| South Africa |
2 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
| France |
2 |
0 |
4 |
6 |
| Hungary |
2 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
| Russia |
1 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
| Sweden |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
| Brazil |
1 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
| Lithuania |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Japan |
0 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
| Spain |
0 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
| Denmark |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| Poland |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| Italy |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Germany |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| New Zealand |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Netherlands |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Canada |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Finland |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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Country |
# |
| ESP |
15 |
| FIN |
7 |
| RUS |
7 |
| UKR |
7 |
| VEN |
7 |
| DEN |
6 |
| CAN |
5 |
| CZE |
5 |
| EGY |
5 |
| HUN |
5 |
| CHN |
4 |
| POL |
4 |
| POR |
4 |
| SWE |
4 |
| USA |
4 |
| AUS |
3 |
| BEL |
3 |
| BLR |
3 |
| FAR |
3 |
| ITA |
3 |
| MEX |
3 |
| NZL |
3 |
| PAK |
3 |
| PHI |
3 |
| SVK |
3 |
| BIH |
2 |
| BRA |
2 |
| ECU |
2 |
| HKG |
2 |
| IRL |
2 |
| ISL |
2 |
| ISR |
2 |
| JPN |
2 |
| KOR |
2 |
| LTU |
2 |
| PER |
2 |
| SIN |
2 |
| ZIM |
2 |
| BRU |
1 |
| CHI |
1 |
| COL |
1 |
| EST |
1 |
| GBR |
1 |
| GER |
1 |
| LIE |
1 |
| LUX |
1 |
| PUR |
1 |
| ROU |
1 |
| RSA |
1 |
| SLO |
1 |
| TUR |
1 |
| Total |
158 |