2025 World Aquatics Masters Championships
- Aug. 7-14, 2025
- Singapore
- LCM
- Results
It was quite a week for former Australian Olympian Sally Hunter (Foster) at the 2025 World Aquatics Masters Championships in Singapore.
Competing in the 40-44 age group, the 40-year-old Hunter won four gold medals, a silver medal, and set two new Masters world records.
Hunter first set a world record in the 100 breaststroke, clocking a time of 1:09.24. She then set another world record in the 50 breast, finishing with a time of 31.48.
Hunter also set a championship record to win the 100 freestyle in a time of 59.00, and won gold in the 50 free with a time of 26.66. She added a silver medal performance in the 50 butterfly (28.66).
It was the first time Hunter competed at the event.
Hunter is a former Olympian for Australia who competed in the 200 breast at both the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2012 London Games, making the event final in London.
In 2008, Hunter won a silver medal in the 200 breast at the FINA Short Course World Championships.
Hunter wasn’t the only swimmer who set two world records at the event. Here were the others:
- In the women’s 55-59 age group, Sabina Vitaloni of Italy set world records in both the 50 meter breast (35.37) and 100 breast (1:19.69).
- David Guthrie, an American competing in the 60-65 age group, set world records in the 50 meter breast (33.25) and 100 breast (1:14.16).
- Russian Mikhail Vekovishchev set two world records in the men’s 25-29 age group, doing so in the 50 meter fly (23.15) and 100 fly (52.20).
- In the women’s 40-45 age group, Shauna Krkalo of Hong Kong set world records in both the 50 meter free (26.07) and 50 meter breast (32.47).
23.15 would have placed fairly well in the 50 Fly at Worlds as well, 9th out of Prelims
Yeah, that’s crazy fast. I wonder what would happen is someone broke an overall world record at a Masters World Champs. Is the infrastructure in place to have the person be drug-tested and to measure the pool length?
Pool measure meet is normally in place (often better than none masters meets) because the pool needs to be measured for Master’s World Records (especially pools with bulkheads). I have no idea about the drug testing situation at Masters Championships.
masters is clean dont worry