2022 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- June 18-25, 2022 (pool swimming)
- Budapest, Hungary
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The United States remains the overall medal table leader with no signs of slowing down through six days of competition here in Budapest.
Lilly King and Ryan Murphy were the individual event winners for the stars n’ stripes, with the former topping the women’s 200m breaststroke podium while the latter grabbed gold in the men’s 200m back.
King’s victory renders her just the second woman along with Russia’s Yuliya Efimova of Russia to have earned gold medals across all 3 breaststroke distances over the course of their World Championships careers. For Murphy, even though the former Cal swimmer has multiple individual Olympic gold medals, tonight’s 2back win in Budapest marks his first individual World Championships gold.
America also aced the men’s 4x200m free relay, clinching the top spot by over 3 seconds ahead of runners-up Australia and bronze medalists Great Britain.
Australia was another double champion in individual events tonight, with Mollie O’Callaghan grabbing gold in the 100m free to kick off the evening while reigning world record holder Zac Stubblety-Cook was the top man in the 200m breast.
O’Callaghan’s victory made the Aussie the youngest 100m freestyle winner since 2011 while ZSC’s 200m breast performance snagged the nation’s first World Championships gold medal in that race.
I am hoping Australia can pick up 5 more medals by the end of the meet.. however losing both Jack and pallister back to back is a big blow to some medal chances
Barring anything untoward, admittedly a common occurance at this meet, there should be two solid medal bets:
MFR has to be a reasonable medal chance …. if they choose to pursue it seriously
With GBR, for various reasons, having a poor meet; M4XMED podium opens up. Still “bearish” given comedic value of AUS M backstroke but with no one other than USA looking wonderful …..
Pallister was looking a reasonable medal chance; despite weak field behind Sjostrom, was never overly convinced of Jack’s chances.
My pre-meet projection was 15 medals total; suspect that will be the final number… Read more »
I think Bacon and White are within striking distance, especially with McKeown’s time in the 50 back and the MMR leadoff. Id still bet on McKeown but I don’t think it’s a sure win for her
“O’Callaghan’s victory made the Aussie the youngest 100m freestyle winner since 2011”
Herasimenia & Ottesen tied for gold in 2011. Both were well into their 20s. She is also younger than Finland’s Seppala in 2003 who was also 18 when she won. I believe Mollie is the youngest since 1982.
That’s incredible. Although Oleksiak was 16 when she won Olympic gold in 2016. But this is still amazing.
Fantastic effort from Australia, especially considering this isn’t even our focus meet.
AUS is where I basically expected them to be.
For AUS to truly “cash in” at World level/Olympics; they need not only to have:
Tokyo was the first time since Beijing this happened at Olympic level
- With both McKeon & Titmus out and McKeown in “experimental mode” with regards to her program; criteria 1 was going to be problematic here.
- Conversely, criteria 2 has actually had a better than expected strike rate
… Read more »I think you’re forgetting Winnington
I did mention Winnington. As regards where he fit on my scale, he was a borderline case. Some chance of gold but not necessarily “front line” after his Tokyo performance … so had him more as medal rather than gold
Ah yes sorry I must have missed that
Winnington’s performance was a revelation. He must have found himself a real good sport psychologist. I really hope he won’t lapse back now that he’s the hunted.
Yes, it has been the oddest meet for Australia- missing stars, odd events, a broken hand, COVID case, the Commonwealth taper etc…. Australia has done OK.
Wow. I guess you’re not even allowed to say “this meet is not Australia’s focus” without people getting upset lol
you can’t say anything without people getting upset.. I really don’t know why they persist with downvotes haha …