There will be no final on 100 m medley at the World Championship in Budapest for Louise Hansson. The Swedish swimmer was eliminated in the semifinal.
That's the way it is. It feels like it was good to get into it before the 100 m butterfly tomorrow, says Hansson to SVT.
For her competitor Gretchen Walsh, USA, it went better. The American set a new world record: 55.71.
I'm very happy and of course a little tired. That was the goal, I'm looking forward to more tomorrow, says Walsh to SVT.
Her world record came just a few minutes after the 18-year-old Canadian Summer McIntosh excelled in the final of the 200 m butterfly. She crushed all in the final and also set a new world record.
The star erased the almost exactly ten-year-old record held by Spanish Mireia Belmonte. The new world record is 1.59,32. McIntosh is only the second woman ever to go under two minutes on the distance.
That was an incredible race. My goal for the evening was to get under that two-minute mark, so doing it makes me very happy, she says to SVT.
The world record was not McIntosh's first during the championship. In fact, just a few days earlier, she set a new world record on the 400 m freestyle.
