swimming world championships

McIntosh and Marchand dazzle for gold at Swimming World Championships

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Summer McIntosh came within a whisker of breaking a long-standing world record, and Leon Marchand failed to improve on a new mark he set just a night earlier, but both young guns won gold medals at the World Championships in Singapore on Thursday. Romania’s David Popovici also flirted with a record on day five at…

World Championships open water swimming postponed due to poor water quality

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Open water swimming at the World Championships in Singapore has been postponed because of “water quality levels exceeding acceptable thresholds,” the governing body World Aquatics said in a statement. The women’s 10-kilometre event was to have opened the program on Tuesday but was pushed back to Wednesday. It will be held the same day as…