Ukraine's Vladislav Bukhov caused a surprise after winning his first world swimming title in Doha on Saturday when he said Russia's participation in the Paris Olympics was “absolutely unacceptable”.
The 21-year-old said the preparations had been tough after winning the men's 50m freestyle against the last two world champions against the wall.
“It’s tough, it’s really tough,” he said. “We are training while Russian rockets fly around the pool. You never know if you will live or not. It is difficult. For all Ukrainians.” Russians 5 Asked if he should compete at the Paris Olympics in a month's time, he said: “Absolutely not.”
“I would like to say that Russia is dangerous and should not be supported in competition.”
Bukhov was the slowest to react from the starting blocks, but beat defending champion Cameron McEvoy of Australia by a hundredth of a second to win his first world championship medal.
He was 0.09 seconds behind Britain's Ben Proud, who won in Budapest two years ago. “It's really tough. You never know who's going to win,” Bukhov said. “I just did my job.”
McEvoy, who was fastest out of the blocks, said: “Obviously I wanted the gold medal and you always want to set a good time, so it's a little disappointing in that respect.
“I would have liked to have done a little better in the final, but I had a butterfly at the beginning of the week so I have to be happy.
“My main goal for this meet was to come here and see how fast I could run. All in all, it was a good week. The free nature of the 50 meant that one small problem It happens and things become lopsided.
“But this is all part of the process and accumulating data ahead of Paris… But if I tell myself from 2016 to 2022 that I would be standing here now, 0.01 more to go. If you told me I could win my second world title in seconds…I would be super proud.'' “
Pan Zhanle swam the hot leg of the 100m freestyle relay again, putting China on track for the gold medal again in the leadoff of the mixed 100m relay, Pan swam in 47.29 seconds, the winning time of the individual final However, it was slower than the world record of 46.80 seconds. He led the men's 100-meter relay final last Sunday.
The Chinese quartet led from start to finish, finishing in 3 minutes 21.18 seconds, setting an Asian record and beating Australia (Kai Taylor, Jack Cartwright, Shayna Jack, Brianna Throssell) by 0.60 seconds. . The US was back in third place, another half a second behind.
Pan, who was also part of the Chinese team in the men's 200m freestyle relay, and 18-year-old Wang Haoyu, both of whom won their third team gold medal at the Games, were part of the Chinese team that won the women's 200m quartet. This is Lee Byung-keol's second relay gold medal of this tournament.
Sprint queen Sarah Sjostrom won the 50m butterfly, winning her 13th world title.
The Swede, who won her first world title in Rome in 2009, won in 24.63 seconds, beating French swimmer Melanie Hennig by a decisive 0.81 seconds. Egypt's Farida Osman was third.
The 30-year-old is the only woman to break 25 seconds in this event. Sjostrom's 12 of her individual titles have all been over 50 or 100 meters in the freestyle or butterfly, but she withdrew from the 100 meter free in Doha.
“I don't want to be greedy,” she said. “If you look at all the medals I've already won, you'll see why I don't need to race more.”
With Saturday's victory, she won the 50m butterfly world title for the sixth year in a row. Henike and Osman each won their third world championship medals, but neither has yet won a gold medal.
Hennik won the silver medal behind Sjostrom two years ago. Osman has won three bronze medals, all in races won by Sjostrom.
Claire Curzan of the United States won the women's individual backstroke event by winning the 200 meters.
The 19-year-old American won the 200 meters with Belarusian Anastasiya Shkurdai in 2:05.77, beating 17-year-old Australian Jaclyn Barkley (who swam a personal best) by 1.26 seconds and winning the 50 meters. and won another gold medal in the 100m backstroke. She swam neutral and placed third.
Diogo Ribeiro, also 19, added the 100m to his 50m title to complete the men's butterfly double.
The Portuguese won in 51.17 seconds, beating Austria's Simon Butcher by 0.121 seconds. Italy's Simona Cuadarella overrode German Isabelle Gosset on the final lap to double her own record and win the 800m free in 8:17.44.
New Zealand's Erica Fairweather won the bronze medal, almost five seconds behind. Cuadalera also won gold in the 1,500 meters on Tuesday in the absence of America's Katie Ledecky, who has dominated the women's pool's longest race for 10 years but is focused on the U.S. Olympic Trials.
The competition ends on Sunday, with eight players from the pool advancing to the finals.
