Rhiannan Iffland became the first ever high diver from Australia to win gold at a world championships, on the penultimate day of the meet in Budapest on Saturday. The 25-year-old also became the youngest ever world champion in the event, as well as the first non-American champion. Iffland scored 320.70 points ahead of Mexico’s Adriana … Read more
Britain’s Adam Peaty warned the men’s 50m breaststroke world record could fall again in a fierce battle over the sprint distance in Wednesday’s final. The British ace broke his own world record from 2015 by clocking 26.10 seconds in Tuesday’s heats, then lowered it again to 25.95sec in the evening’s semi-finals. The record is under … Read more
China’s Xu Jiayu won men’s 100m backstroke gold at the world aquatics championships on Tuesday. The 21-year-old Olympic silver medallist clocked 52.44 seconds with American duo Matt Grevers earning silver, at 0.04sec back, and Olympic champion Ryan Murphy taking bronze at 0.15. “My main aim is to break the world record,” admitted Xu, who fell … Read more
Chinese superstar Sun Yang won the men’s 200m freestyle gold at the world aquatics championships on Tuesday to add to his Olympic title in the same event. Sun touched the wall first in one minute 44.39 seconds with Townley Haas of the United States taking silver, at 0.65sec back, while Russia’s Aleksandr Krasnykh earned bronze … Read more
Katie Ledecky earned a second gold medal on Sunday at the world aquatics championships in Budapest by helping the United States win the women’s 4x100m freestyle final. Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom had set a world record of 51.71sec in the opening leg, becoming the first woman to break the 52-second barrier. The USA clocked three minutes, … Read more
Li Zheng and Wang Han held off Britain’s Grace Reid and Tom Daley to earn China’s eighth diving gold of the world aquatic championships in Saturday’s 3m synchro springboard final. China’s Li and Wang took gold with 323.70 points after a battle with the British pair who led after the first and third rounds, but … Read more
China’s Shi Tingmao poses with the gold medal during the podium ceremony for the women’s 3m springboard final during the diving competition at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, on July 21, 2017 Olympic champion Shi Tingmao earned China’s eighth diving gold of the world aquatic championships on Friday with victory in the women’s … Read more
Cheong Jun Hoong won Malaysia’s first ever diving gold medal at the aquatics world championships in Budapest on Wednesday in the women’s 10 metre platform event. “My god, I´m a world champion!” said Cheong who came first with 397.50 points. “I hoped for a medal, but I didn’t think I could beat the Chinese divers,” … Read more
Chinese duo Chen Aisen and Yang Hao cruised to gold in the men’s synchronised 10m platform at the world aquatics championships in Budapest on Monday. The duo scored perfect 10s in the six-dive final, earning 498.48 points, well ahead of Russian pair Aleksandr Bondar and Viktor Minibaev on 458.85 points. The title, China’s fifth diving … Read more
World champion and Olympic title holder Shi Tingmao with partner Chang Yani won China’s ninth gold in a row in the women’s 3-metre springboard synchro competition at the world aquatics championships in Budapest on Monday. “Of course I am very happy to defend my title in this event, and being able to reach it with … Read more
China maintained their two-decade dominance in the women’s 10 metre synchronised platform at world aquatics championships in Budapest on Sunday. Competing for the first time together Ren Qian and Si Yajie took gold for China which has now won this event at all nine world meets since Ukraine won in 1988. “We were very nervous … Read more
A change of partner just before the world swimming championships paid off for China’s Lian Junjie and Ren Qian, who won mixed 10 metre synchronised diving gold on Saturday. The duo had been working together for only a month before Budapest, but dominated the five dive programme, the first diving event of the championships. Ending … Read more