Australian Ariarne Titmus won the gold medal in the women’s 400m freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuka, setting a new world record with a time of 3’55”38. The silver medal was won by US champion Katie Ledecky, while the bronze went to New Zealander Erika Fairweather. The 16-year-old Canadian Arianna McIntosh, who held the world record with 3’56″08, remained off the podium in fourth place. Titmus’s is the second Australian gold in Japan, given that in the first final of the event Samuel Short became world champion in the 400m freestyle, ahead of the Tunisian Ahmed Hafnaoui and the German Lukas Maertens, world champion in Rome in 2022.
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2023-07-23 11:54:17
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