Kate DOUGLASS clinched her first gold of Singapore 2025 in style, breaking the women’s 200m breaststroke Championship Record on Friday (1 Aug). She led from start to finish to win the race in 2min 18.50sec and lower the previous mark of 2:19.11 set by Rikke PEDERSEN (DEN) in 2013. 
In the men’s 200m breaststroke, QIN Haiyang (CHN) emerged the surprise winner from lane eight clinching a stunning victory in 2:07.41. While he had set the world record at Fukuoka 2023, Qin had qualified just eighth after the semi-finals and was up against top qualifiers Ippei WATANABE (JPN) and Caspar CORBEAU (NED). But never one to be deterred, Qin produced a blistering performance to reclaim his 2023 title. 

Summary of the finals:

Women’s 100m freestyleGold – Marrit STEENBERGEN (NED)Silver – Mollie O’CALLAGHAN (AUS)Bronze – Torri HUSKE (USA) 

Men’s 200m breaststrokeGold – QIN Haiyang (CHN)Silver – Ippei WATANABE (JPN)Bronze – Caspar CORBEAU (NED)

Men’s 200m backstroke
Gold – Hubert KOS (HUN)Silver – Pieter COETZE (RSA)Bronze – Yohann NDOYE-BROUARD (FRA)

Women’s 200m breaststrokeGold – Kate DOUGLASS (USA)Silver – Evgeniia CHIKUNOVA (NAB)Bronze – Kaylene CORBETT (RSA), Alina ZMUSHKA (NAA)

Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay
Gold – GBRSilver – CHNBronze – AUS

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

Men’s 100m butterfly1. QUAH Zheng Wen – 51.92sec, 24th

Men’s 50m freestyle1. Mikkel LEE – 22.18sec, 29th

Women’s 50m butterfly1. QUAH Ting Wen – 26.69sec, 30th

Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay1. Glen LIM, Jonathan TAN, Ardi AZMAN, Jerald LIUM – 7:23.00, 15th

Women’s 800m freestyle1. GAN Ching Hwee – 8:31.36, 13th 

Meanwhile, Osmar OLVERA IBARRA (MEX) clinched the men’s 3m springboard gold at the World Aquatics Championships – Singapore 2025 on Friday (1 Aug), defeating a field that included three-time defending champion WANG Zongyuan (CHN) and 2016 Olympic champion CAO Yuan (CHN). 

His score of 529.55 earned him the title at the OCBC Aquatic Centre and also denied China an 11-peat in this event. Cao took second with 522.70 and Wang, who won the men’s 3m synchronised title with ZHENG Jiuyuan earlier this week, was third with 515.55.

In the women’s 3m springboard preliminaries on Friday, Singapore’s Clara LIAW and FONG Kay Yian finished in 40th and 46th place respectively. 

The penultimate day of the diving event at Singapore 2025 on Saturday (2 Aug) will see the men’s 10m platform preliminaries taking place, followed by the women’s 3m springboard semi-finals and final. 

Featured Photo Credit: Istvan Derencsenyi & Aniko Kovacs & Mike Lewis & Tsutomu Kishimoto/ World Aquatics

The World Aquatics Championships – Singapore 2025 runs from 11th July to 22nd August 2025. More information available here

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