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Diasabra 25 Juni 2022

Ledecky grabs another gold, Aussies set record at worlds

second off the record set by the absences of Caeleb Dres- Sarah Sjöström won her
the United States at the last sel, Florent Manaudou and fourth consecutive 50 but-
worlds in Gwangju, South Bruno Fratus. "The whole terfly title, clocking 24.95 to
Korea, in July 2019. podium from the Olympics head off Melanie Henique
"I don't think there was any last year wasn't in the final." of France and Yufei Zhang of
mention or any expectation China for a record-equaling
or even a thought about be- Dressel was due to race but eighth gold medal in butter-
ing able to break that," Wil- withdrew from the worlds fly events at a worlds. Phelps
son said. "So to do that and for unspecified reasons on has to share his record.
see that at the end was just Wednesday.
unbelievable and a real sur- "It's not the same without American Torri Huske was
prise for us." him," Proud said. "As soon sixth, 0.50 behind Sjöström,
as he was out, that quite who claimed her 18th indi-
Canada's team of Joshua changed the dynamics of the vidual medal at the worlds.
Liendo, Javier Acevedo, Kay- competition. A lot of people Only Phelps, with 20, has
la Sanchez and Penny Olek- had a different type of pres- more.
(AP) — Katie Ledecky ex- Quadarella 10.96 behind for siak finished 1.23 behind the sure leading in.."
tended her record haul of third. Australians for silver, and the Dressel, the world record After five silver medals, Aus-
medals and Australia set a United States team of Ryan holder, was also missing from tralia's Kaylee McKeown fi-
world record in the mixed It's Ledecky's 19th gold at a Held, Brooks Curry, Torri the 200 butterfly. nally claimed a gold when she
4x100 meters freestyle fi- worlds and her fourth this Huske and Claire Curzan edged American Phoebe Ba-
nal at the world swim- week including the 4x200 was third, 1.71 behind. Kristóf Milák followed up con by just four-hundredths
ming championships on freestyle relay. Canada's silver was the coun- his win in the 100 butter- of a second in the women's
Friday. "Really good end to a great try's ninth medal this week, fly – where he lowered his 200 backstroke.
week," Ledecky said. eclipsing the eight it won in own world record – by add- Bacon's teammate, Rhyan
American star Ledecky won Gwangju. ing the 200. The Hungarian White, was third for her first
the 800 freestyle final for the Her 22 medals are the most swimmer delighted the home medal at a worlds.
fifth time at the worlds to for a female swimmer in Ben Proud won Britain's first fans as he clinched the title in
seal her fourth consecutive world championships his- gold of the championships, 50.14 ahead of Japan's Naoki It was the closest result in
400/800/1,500 triple at the tory. Only Michael Phelps, clinching the men's 50 free- Mizunuma and Canada's this race at a worlds since
event. who won 26, has more. style in 21.32 – 0.09 ahead of Josh Liendo. 1986 when East Germany's
American Michael Andrew Cornelia Sirch was two-hun-
She clocked 8 minutes, 8.04 Australia's mixed relay team and 0.25 ahead of France's Milák joined Phelps and dredths of a second ahead
seconds to finish more than of Jack Cartwright, Kyle Maxime Grousset. South African Chad Le Clos of American Besty Mitchell.
10 seconds ahead of her ri- Chalmers, Madison Wil- as the only male swimmers to Sirch later suffered health
vals. Australia's Kiah Mel- son and Mollie O'Callaghan "We're missing quite a few achieve the 100/200 butterfly problems that she attributed
verton was 10.73 behind in clocked 3:19.38 in the 4x100 key players in the pool to- double at a single worlds. to her country's state doping
second and Italy's Simona to shave two-hundredths of a day," Proud said, referring to program.

Kvitova advances at Eastbourne, sets up final vs Ostapenko

(AP) — Two-time Wim- seeded Camila Giorgi 6-2, French Open champion and For Cressy, a Paris-born
bledon champion Petra 6-2 in the other semifinal. Kvitova earned the only ser- 2018 Wimbledon semifinal- American, it was his third
Kvitova advanced to her vice break of the match to be- ist. straight victory over a Brit-
first grass-court final in Haddad Maia won 12 straight gin the second set against the In the men's event, third- ish opponent. He had beaten
four years by beating Bea- matches on grass including Brazilian. seeded Taylor Fritz will face Cameron Norrie and Daniel
triz Haddad Maia 7-6 (5), back-to-back singles titles in Maxime Cressy in the final. Evans.
6-4 at Eastbourne on Fri- Nottingham and Birming- The Czech player's only ca- Fritz beat defending cham-
day. ham over the last two weeks. reer loss in five grass-court pion Alex de Minaur 6-1, 6-7 Fritz is an American who
finals was to Marion Bar- (5), 6-3 after Cressy outlasted won the Eastbourne title in
Kvitova will face defending The 14th-seeded Kvitova toli at Eastbourne in 2011, British wild card Jack Draper 2019. He's ranked No. 14.
champion Jelena Ostapenko reached her first final of 2022 when Kvitova went on to win 7-6 (5), 6-7 (2), 6-3 in the Cressy is 60th. The final will
in the final. The eighth-seed- and first grass-court final Wimbledon for the first time. other semifinal. be their first meeting.
ed Latvian defeated 12th- since Birmingham in 2018. Ostapenko was the 2017