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World Aquatics Championships 2025: Summer McIntosh wins third gold; Leon Marchand falls short of own world record  Yahoo Sports ‘I was so close’: Summer McIntosh wins 3rd gold medal, just misses world record in 200m butterfly  CBC Summer McIntosh wins third gold of swimming worlds; Léon Marchand wins 200 IM  The New York Times Katie Ledecky looks toward ‘exciting’ head to head with …

Léon Marchand crushed Ryan Lochte’s world record in the 200m individual medley by more than one second in the World Championships semifinals. Marchand, the Frenchman who won four individual golds at the 2024 Paris Olympics, clocked 1 minute, 52.69 seconds in Singapore. That erased the world record of 1:54.00 set by Lochte at the 2011 Worlds. “My plan was to …

Leon Marchand Crushes Mind-Bending 1:52.69 200 IM World Record  SwimSwam Marchand breaks Lochte’s 200m medley record  ESPN World Aquatics Championships 2025: Leon Marchand breaks Ryan Lochte’s record; Luca Urlando wins gold in butterfly  Yahoo Sports Marvellous Marchand sparkles on return to global stage with 200 medley world record  Reuters World Aquatics Championships 2025: Leon Marchand breaks 200m medley world record  BBC Source link

Jul 30, 2025, 09:03 AM ET SINGAPORE — Léon Marchand broke the world record in the 200-meter individual medley Wednesday at the world championships in Singapore, clocking 1 minute, 52.61 seconds, to surpass the 1:54.00 set in 2011 by American Ryan Lochte. The Frenchman set the mark swimming in the semifinals and, in theory, could break the record again in …

It’s not a surprise that France’s Léon Marchand is one of the best swimmers in the world. Marchand won four gold medals at the 2024 Olympics, destroying the competition and announcing himself as a dominant force in the sport. He took that a step further Wednesday. Marchand set a new standard in the 200m individual medley Wednesday, not only beating …