Singapore 2025: Marchand and Meilutyte golden again on final day of World Aquatics Championships
European swimmers created big waves at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships which concluded today – and none more so than France’s 23-year-old phenomenon Leon Marchand, who added 400m individual medley gold to the 200m medley title he had secured four days earlier. Lithuania also secured gold on the night as Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte with fourth […]
Singapore 2025: European record and second gold for Grousset as Proud and Vanotterdijk make podium on penultimate day of swimming
France’s Maxime Grousset regained the men’s 100m butterfly title in a European record time of 49.62 on the penultimate day of swimming at the World Aquatics Championships 2025, completing the double after his earlier victory in the 50m butterfly. As in the shorter distance, he was followed home by Switzerland’s Tokyo 2020 100m butterfly bronze […]
Singapore 2025: Italy’s Pellacani signs off with another diving bronze
Chiara Pellacani earned a third medal at the World Aquatics Championships 2025 as she claimed women’s 3m springboard bronze in dramatic fashion on the penultimate day of diving. The 22-year-old moved into a podium position thanks to her final dive in a contest where China’s Olympic champion Yiwen Chen and Jia Chen, winners of the […]
Singapore 2025: Houlden repeats fourth-place feat as men’s springboard events conclude
Great Britain’s Jordan Houlden once again narrowly missed out on a medal at the World Aquatics Championships 2025 in Singapore, as his valiant effort in the Men’s 3m Springboard final saw him end-up as the highest European finisher in fourth place. The 27-year-old repeated the finish he made in the 1m event earlier in the […]
Singapore 2025: European record-breaker Kos, Steenbergen and Great Britain 4x200m freestyle relay team earn gold on swimming day six
Europeans secured three of the five available golds on day six of swimming at the World Aquatics Championships as Hungary’s Hubert Kos regained the men’s 200m backstroke title in a European record, Great Britain was victorious in the men’s 4x200m freestyle and Marrit Steenbergen of The Netherlands retained the women’s 100m freestyle title. Kos, the […]
Singapore 2025: Marchand takes world 200m IM gold as Popovici lowers his European record in regaining 100m freestyle title
France’s Leon Marchand followed up his monumental world record in the men’s 200m individual medley semi-finals by winning his sixth world gold on a day when Romania’s 20-year-old David Popovici regained the world 100m freestyle title, lowering his European record to 46.51 – just 0.11 off the world mark. Marchand, 23, who had clocked 1:52.69 […]
Singapore 2025: Pauline Pfeif wins first-ever world medal following thrilling Women’s 10m Platform final
Germany’s Pauline Pfeif produced the performance of her career to take the silver medal in the Women’s 10m Platform final at the World Aquatics Championships 2025 in Singapore, as she maintained her consistency through the rounds to take to the podium for the first time. The 23-year-old came into the competition having competed at major […]
Singapore 2025: Marchand obliterates 200m IM world record as Cerasuolo takes maiden title on day four
France’s Leon Marchand burst onto the scene at the World Aquatics Championships 2025 in Singapore, lowering the men’s 200m individual medley world record by 1.31 seconds in what was only the semi-final of the event. The 23-year-old four-time Paris 2024 champion looked determined to get the record as he went out with the leaders on […]
Singapore 2025: Pellacani and Santoro win Italy’s first world diving gold in 10 years
Italy’s Chiara Pellacani and Matteo Santoro, mixed 3m synchro silver medallists at the World Aquatics Championships in 2022 and 2024 and bronze medallists in 2023, today made it gold. Pellacani, 22, who earned her first world individual medal on the opening day of diving in Singapore, combined with her 18-year-old partner to earn victory in […]
Singapore 2025: Popovici wins Men’s 200m freestyle thriller as Elendt takes first world title
Romania’s David Popovici regained the men’s 200m freestyle world title, which he last won in 2022, following an intense final at the World Aquatics Championships 2025 in Singapore, on a night when Germany’s Anna Elendt made history of her own with her first world title. Popovici, 20, was fourth at the halfway stage and looked […]
