SWIMMING. Until June 25, the swimming world championships are on the menu of the Budapest swimming pool with several chances of medals for the French.
The world swimming championships are taking place in the Budapest swimming pool until June 25 and the results of the French are already very positive with two medals in the tricolor ranks. After the impressive triumph of Léon Marchand in the 400m medley on Saturday June 18, Marie Wattel brought the second medal of the French delegation in the 100m butterfly with the silver medal. Two medals in two days hadn’t happened since Kazan in 2015.
Of course, there are still good chances of medals for the Blues during these worlds. Léon Marchand is still involved in several races and is aiming for other medals while Florent Manaudou will be involved at the end of these world championships in the 50m freestyle event.
Where are the World Swimming Championships held?
For the second time in history, the swimming world championships will be held in the capital of Hungary, Budapest.
What is the program for the World Swimming Championships?
Here is the full schedule of events with dates. Note that all finals will start at 6 p.m. from the Budapest swimming pool.
June 20
- Series: Men’s 800m Freestyle
- Heats and semi-finals: men’s 50m breaststroke, women’s 200m freestyle, men’s 200m butterfly.
- Finals: Men’s 200m freestyle, Women’s 1,500m freestyle, Women’s 100m backstroke, Men’s 100m backstroke, Women’s 100m breaststroke.
21st of June
- Heats and semi-finals: women’s 50m backstroke, men’s 100m freestyle, men’s 200m medley, women’s 200m butterfly.
- Heats and final: 4x100m mixed medley relay
- Finals: 800m freestyle men, 200m freestyle women, 200m butterfly men, 50m breaststroke men.
June 22
- Heats and semi-finals: women’s 100m freestyle, men’s 200m backstroke, women’s 200m breaststroke, men’s 200m breaststroke.
- Heats and final: 4x200m freestyle women.
- Finals: women’s 200m butterfly, men’s 100m freestyle, women’s 50m backstroke, men’s 200m medley.
June 23
- Heats and semi-finals: men’s 100m butterfly, women’s 200m backstroke, men’s 50m freestyle, women’s 50m butterfly.
- Heats and final: men’s 4x200m freestyle relay.
- Finals: women’s 100m freestyle, women’s 200m breaststroke, men’s 200m backstroke, men’s 200m breaststroke.
June 24
- Series and semi-finals: women’s 50m freestyle, men’s 50m backstroke, women’s 50m breaststroke.
- Heats and final: mixed 4x100m freestyle relay
- Finals: Women’s 50m butterfly, Men’s 50m freestyle, Men’s 100m butterfly, Women’s 200m backstroke, Women’s 800m freestyle.
June 25
- Heats and final: women’s 400m medley, men’s 4x100m medley relay, women’s 4x100m medley relay.
- Finals: Men’s 50m backstroke, Women’s 50m breaststroke, Men’s 1,500m freestyle, Women’s 50m freestyle.
What are the results of the swimming world championships?
Women
- 400m freestyle: Gold: Katie Ledecky / Silver: Summer McIntosh / bronze: Leah Smith
- 100m butterfly: Gold: Torri Huske / Silver: Marie Wattel / Bronze: Yufei Zhang
- 200m medley: Gold: Alex Walsh / Silver: Kaylee McKeown / Leah Hayes
- 4x100m freestyle: Gold: Australia / Silver: Canada / Bronze: USA
Men
- 400m freestyle: Gold: Elijah Winnington / Silver: Luka Martens / Bronze: Guilherme Costa
- 100m breaststroke: Gold: Nicolo Martinenghi / Silver: Arno Kamminga / Bronze: Nic Fink
- 50m butterfly: Gold: Caleb Dressel / Silver: Nicholas Santos / Bronze: Michael Andrew
- 400m medley: Gold: Léon Marchand / Silver: Carson Foster / Bronze: Chase Kalisz
- 4x100m freestyle: Gold: USA / Silver: Australia / Bronze: Italy
What TV broadcast for the world swimming championships?
Follow the series of the world championships from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. (until 12:15 p.m. on Saturday June 18, 12 p.m. on Tuesday June 21 and Friday June 24, 11 a.m. on Saturday June 25) live on france.tv. The end of the day, with the semi-finals and finals of the pool race events, will be broadcast on France 4 from 6 p.m. (until 8 p.m. every day except Sunday June 19 until 7:40 p.m., Wednesday 22 June until 8:05 p.m., Thursday June 23 until 7:55 p.m., and Saturday June 25 until 7:50 p.m.).
Who are the engaged French?
21 French people will try to win medals during these swimming worlds, including Florent Manaudou, Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, Mélanie Henique, Léon Marchand and Marie Wattel