Prime Highlights
- American women’s 4×100 m medley relay team broke the world record on Singapore’s last night.
- Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh took her fourth consecutive individual gold, joining swimming’s sport all-time legends.
Key Fact
- Team USA dominated the medal table with 9 golds and 29 total medals.
- Summer McIntosh joined a total of three women to win four individual golds in one world championships.
Key Background
2025 Singapore World Swimming Championships ended on a world record buzz for the American women’s 4×100 m medley relay squad. Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, and Torri Huske reunited and broke a world record time of 3:49.34 to win the 2024 Olympics record. They not only won gold, but they also confirmed U.S. supremacy in the championship’s final relay.
Summer McIntosh, 18- time-old Canadian swimming sensation, put in one of the stylish performances of her teenage career. Grabbing the 200 m butterfly, 200 m IM, 400 m freestyle, and 400 m IM titles, she came just the third woman swoon in history to claim four individual gold orders at a single world crowns. Her dominant palm in the 400 m IM, which she won further than seven seconds in front of her coming-stylish opponent, solidified her position as the coming swimming world megastar.
Though having weathered a stomach bug which had plagued some team members, the American swimming team was strong and resilient. Most of the athletes are said to have struggled with gastroenteritis and extensive loss of weight, but came back to take the medal count from long-time rivals Australia. Team morale was given a perspective when the team was ridiculed on the internet by past champions Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps—but their record-breaking performance sent out a strong message.
Meanwhile, Australia was not far behind with 8 gold and 20 overall medals. The most jaw-dropping moment perhaps was from swimmer Meg Harris, who took gold in the women’s 50 m freestyle blindfolded—coaches and spectators gasping in amazement. The crowning glory of a hair-raising championship sent out a warning shot for the lead-up to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
