2025 World Championships
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It was a relatively successful day for the United States who remains atop the overall swimming medal table through day seven of the 2025 World Championships.
Gretchen Walsh kicked things off for the stars n’ stripes with a victory in the women’s 50m fly, doubling up on her 100m fly gold from earlier in the competition.
Katie Ledecky raced her way to a hard-fought gold in the 800m free, her 23rd World Championships gold in all.
Additional U.S. women’s medalists included Regan Smith and Claire Curzan, capturing respective silver and bronze in the women’s 200m back behind Aussie champion Kaylee McKeown.
Then the mixed 4x100m free relay ended the night in golden fashion with a world record.
Although the American men indeed found themselves on the podium tonight, that side of the contingent is still awaiting its second gold after Luca Urland0 grabbed gold in the 200m fly.
Tonight, Jack Alexy earned bronze in the men’s 50m free behind winner Cameron McEvoy of Australia and runner-up Ben Proud of Great Britain.
Breaking down the U.S., the women have been more successful than the men thus far in terms of hardware:
- U.S. Men – 1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze
- U.S. Women – 6 gold, 8 silver, 5 bronze
Comparing yesterday’s medal table to today’s, Australia and Canada maintain their 2nd and 3rd slots while France froghopped China and Germany to now rank 4th. That was due to Maxime Grousset‘s monster gold in the 100m fly, adding more hardware to his 50m fly from earlier, as well as Leon Marchand‘s 200m IM top prize.
Medal Table Through Day Seven of 2025 World Championships
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 |
U.S.
|
8 | 11 | 7 | 26 |
| 2 |
Australia
|
7 | 4 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Canada | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | France | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | China | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | Germany | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Romania | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Italy | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 9 | NAB | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Tunisia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | NAA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
No discredit to Luca, but the American men would have zero gold if Marchand and Milak swam.
Woulda coulda shoulda
And if my grandma had wheels, she would be a bike
– Pieter Coetze.
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He went 1:51 ffs.
Well, as an American, I have thoroughly enjoyed this year’s world championships. What an amazing week of racing with incredibly fast swims and exciting races.
And there have been some great performances by USA men. Luca Orlando. Wow-what a comeback story. Jack Alexy goes sub 47 three times in one week and sets an American record. Patrick Sammons-awesome swims.
USA tops the medal table, sets WR in mixed 4×100 free relay. And good for the other countries seeing successes. As a fan, I want to see great racing and this week did not disappoint.
Still looking forward to Bobby Finke in the 1500. It is not over yet.
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Wonderfully stated. Thank you and could not agree more!
Although if WestCoastCav references US West Coast, then I’m sure you’ll agree that the 4am finals sessions have been a bit rough!