Andy Ross
@andy_ross4
🗽 @AsphaltGreen swim coach 🌏 @WorldAquatics editorial correspondent 🐾 @SIUC grad 🏆 1x Emmy Award winner Views are my own.
Summer McIntosh 🇨🇦 broke three world records at her World Trials in June, the first swimmer to do since Michael Phelps 🇺🇸 in 2008. This week at Worlds, she's taking on five individual events in a trial run for the LA Olympics in three years. worldaquatics.com/news/4325109/s…
Pauline Mahieu 🇫🇷 wins the swim off for eighth in the 100m back at 59.28 over Wan Letian 🇨🇳
Smith v. McKeown renewed for season 4
DOUBLE DOUBLE 🇨🇦 Both Canadians advance to the women’s backstroke 100m final. Massive swim for Kylie Masse and really solid stuff from Taylor Ruck. Final goes Tuesday night in Singapore.
Catharsis for Gretchen Walsh 🇺🇸 as she wins the 100m fly, the first of her career in long course meters. Big exhale for the American team as well winning the first gold of the championships.
Ovation LOUD for Qin Haiyang 🇨🇳 when he walked out. These Chinese athletes are treated like superstars back home.
Kirsty Coventry 🇿🇼, the new IOC President, is in the arena to watch night 2 finals!
Singaporean Records, Finals Spot ‘Means World’ to Ching Hwee Gan - is.gd/YdSkeL
Round ✌️ 🏊♀️: #AQUASingapore2025 Day 2 Finals ⏰: 7 a.m. ET 📺: peacock 📊: bit.ly/4opYO8L
The stage is set! 🌊🔥 Here are your Women’s 100m Butterfly finalists who will fly to victory? 🦋💥 Top seed: Gretchen Walsh 🇺🇸 & Roos Vanotterdijk 🇧🇪 (56.07) a race too close to call!
Who will fly the fastest on the 50m Butterfly tonight? 👀 Here’s who’s diving in for a shot at glory! 🥇 #AQUASingapore25 #Swimming
So awesome for Ching Hwee Gan 🇸🇬 to get into that final!
🇸🇬World Championships Singapore 2025 #AQUASingapore2025 Women's 1500m Freestyle Heats omegatiming.com/File/000119000… 1. Katie Ledecky (USA🇺🇸) 15:36.68 Q 2. Lani Pallister (AUS🇦🇺) 15:46.95 Q 3. Simona Quadarella (ITA🇮🇹) 15:47.43 Q 4. Gan Ching Hwee (SGP🇸🇬) 16:01.29 Q
1:46.67 shows 16th in the men's 200m free heats. That ties Tokyo 2020 as the fastest 16th time at a major meet. David Popovici 🇷🇴 looks unbeatable right now.
Ralph Daleiden 🇱🇺! He drops a big 1:47.74 in the 200m freestyle heats. Maybe not enough for semis but a big swim after he was 1:49 last year.
If the illness stuff never comes out, (this headline) is still not a huge surprise given they were ranked 10th and 11th this year amongst those qualified for Worlds.
2025 Worlds Mark First Time Since 1908 That The US Did Not Make Semifinals Of Men’s 100 Back swimswam.com/2025-worlds-ma…
Year after year we are reminded how impressive Lilly King's 🇺🇸 1:04.13 world record from 2017 is.
🇸🇬World Championships Singapore 2025 #AQUASingapore2025 Women's 100m Breaststroke Heats omegatiming.com/File/000119000… 1. Mona McSharry (IRL🇮🇪) 1:05.99 Q 2. Anna Elendt (GER🇩🇪) 1:06.01 Q 3. Satomi Suzuki (JPN🇯🇵) 1:06.13 Q 4. Evgeniia Chikunova (NAB🏴) 1:06.19 Q
FAST heats in men's 100m backstroke - 53.78 was 16th; faster than every major meet except for the 2020 Olympics when it took 53.77 to make semis.
🚨 Pieter Coetze 🇿🇦 alert! 🚨 After his 51.99 a few days ago in Germany, he finishes third in heat 4/6 in the 100m back. Hubert Kos 🇭🇺 looks GOOD.
Australia 🇦🇺 the kings and queens of the 4x100m freestyle, while Summer McIntosh 🇨🇦 and Lukas Martens 🇩🇪 backed up their world records earlier in the year to World titles. worldaquatics.com/news/4325565/a…
