Roundup: Australia sets new WR, China wins 4th artistic swimming gold on 7th day of FINA Worlds-Xinhua

Roundup: Australia sets new WR, China wins 4th artistic swimming gold on 7th day of FINA Worlds

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2022-06-25 07:33:45

BUDAPEST, June 24 (Xinhua) -- China continued to dominate the artistic swimming pool, winning the fourth gold medal here as Australia set a new world record in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay on the seventh day of the 19th FINA World Championships on Friday.

The Chinese team, fresh from the team technical victory on Tuesday, staged an impressive performance to score 96.7000 points. Ukraine came second with 95.0000 points, followed by Japan with 93.1333 points.

It is also the fourth gold for twin sisters Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi who won gold for China in the women's Duet Free and Duet Technical as well as the team technical.

China now leads the artistic swimming medal table with four golds and one bronze, ahead of Japan and Ukraine.

Team Australia set a new world mark in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay in three minutes and 19.38 seconds, shattering the previous record of 3:19.40 set by the United States at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Canada took the silver in 3:20.61 and the U.S. the bronze, 3:21.09.

In the women's 50m butterfly, Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjoestroem won with a time of 24.95, ahead of French Melanie Henique in 25.31. China's Zhang Yufei won the bronze.

Benjamin Proud of Britain was the fastest in the men's 50m freestyle, 21.32 seconds, beating American rival Michael Andrew (21.41) and French swimmer Maxime Grousset (21.57).

Host Hungarians were delighted by the victory of Kristof Milak in the men's 100m butterfly as he swam 50.14 seconds to beat Japan's Naoki Mizunuma and Canada's Joshua Liendo Edwards for the title.

The women's 200m backstroke was won by Aussie athlete Kaylee Mckeown with a time of 2:05.08, followed by two American swimmers Phoebe Bacon (2:05.12) and Rhyan White (2:06.96).

The women's 800m freestyle event saw the victory of Katie Ledecky of the U.S. in 8:08.04, and Australian Kiah Melverton pocketed the silver in 8:18.77 and Italian Simona Quadarella in 8:19.00.