Matteo SANTORO and Chiara PELLACANI (ITA) made history by winning their country’s first world title in the mixed 3m synchronised springboard event at the World Aquatics Championships – Singapore 2025 on Wednesday (30 July). It is Italy’s first diving gold medal at the world championships since 2015, when Tania CAGNOTTO won the women’s 1m springboard. 

Santoro and Pellacani were in second place at the end of three rounds behind CHENG Zilong and LI Yajie (CHN), but overtook CHN in the fourth round as the latter dropped to third place. The Italians remained steady in the fifth round to close out the win with a final score of 308.13, ahead of Maddison KEENEY and Cassiel ROUSSEAU (AUS, 307.26) and CHN (305.70). 

In the preliminaries of the women’s 10m platform, Singaporean debutante Ainslee KWANG scored a personal best of 285 to place 13th and qualify for Thursday’s semi-finals. 

Diving at Singapore 2025 continues on 31 July with the men’s 3m springboard preliminaries, followed by the women’s 10m platform semi-finals and final. 

Swim star Leon MARCHAND (FRA) shattered the men’s 200m individual medley world record with a stunning performance at the World Aquatics Championships – Singapore 2025 on Wednesday (30 July). The 23-year-old clocked 1min 52.69sec in the semi-finals to erase Ryan LOCHTE (USA)’s previous record of 1:54.00sec. The final takes place on 31 July.  

An exciting finale of the night saw the NAB team clinch the mixed 4x100m medley relay in Championship Record time of 3:37.97 ahead of CHN (3:39.99) and CAN (3:40.90). The previous record of 3:38.56 was held by the USA, who missed out on the final after finishing 10th in the heats.

Summary of the finals from today:

Men’s 800m freestyle

Gold – Ahmed JAOUADI (TUN)

Silver – Sven SCHWARZ (GER)

Bronze – Lukas MARTENS (GER)

Women’s 200m freestyle

Gold – Mollie O’CALLAGHAN (AUS)

Silver – LI Bingjie (CHN)

Bronze – Claire WEINSTEIN (USA)

Men’s 200m butterfly

Gold – Luca URLANDO (USA)

Silver – Krzysztof CHMIELEWSKI (POL)

Bronze – Harrison TURNER (AUS)

Men’s 50m breaststroke

Gold – Simone CERASUOLO (ITA)

Silver – Kirill PRIGODA (NAB)

Bronze – QIN Haiyang (CHN)

Mixed 4x100m medley relay

Gold – NAB

Silver – CHN

Bronze – CAN

Team Singapore in action 

Please find a summary of Team Singapore’s results below:

Women’s 50m backstroke

1. Levenia SIM – 29.40sec, 36th

Men’s 100m freestyle

1. Jonathan TAN – 49.62, 38th

Men’s 200m individual medley

1. Zackery TAY – 2:03.55, 33rd

Women’s 200m butterfly

1. QUAH Jing Wen – 2:13.50, 21st

Mixed 4x100m medley relay

1. Zackery TAY, CHAN Chun Ho, Megan YO, QUAH Ting Wen – 3:56.51, 21st

Featured Photo Credit: Singapore Aquatics

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