Australia has a one-gold lead on the medals table after three days of racing at Singapore 2025 World Championships.

The United States, now largely recovered from the illness that took a toll on some of its swimmers on the opening two days of racing, has 10 medals overall and is joined by Canada and Germany on gold count, with two wins apiece. Taking in open water, of course, the overall swimming table boasts Germany at the top with six golds, courtesy of the three solo victories and one relay triumph of Florian Wellbrock in week 1 of the championships.

Each gold, several other medals and placings on day 3 wrote a pioneering line in swimming history, including:

Women's 100m backstroke

• G -Kaylee McKeown Australia 57.16 CR/OC/CommR/NR

Women's 1500m freestyle

• G - Katie Ledecky United States - title No 6 since 2013
• S - Simona Quadarella Italy 15:31.79 ER/NR

Men's 100m backstroke

• G - Pieter Coetze South Africa 51.85 AF/NR
• B - Yohann Ndoye-Brouard France 51.92 NR
• 4th - Hubert Kós Hungary 52.20 NR

Women's 100m breaststroke

- G - Anna Elendt Germany 1:05.19 NR

Men's 200m freestyle

• B - Tatsuya Murasa Japan 1:44.54 NR

Day 3 Coverage

W100 Breast: Elendt Elated, Lane 1 Outside Smoker Stuns The Big Two For German Gold

“It’s really true that I’m only swimming for myself. That I don’t have to swim for my studies, for college. If I really don’t feel like it anymore, I could say I’ll quit tomorrow. That’s not the plan, of course, but it simply takes the pressure off.” - Anna Elendt

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

W100 Back: Backstroke’s Boxing Kangaroo McKeown Jabs Past Smith For 57.16 Champs-Record Gold

Regan Smith fought all the way to the wall, but she was racing against Kaylee McKeown travelling faster than she ever had: 57.16, multiple records down, the WR just 0.03sec away, silver to Smith in 57.35, USA teammate Katherine Berkoff third in 58.15, Canadian Kylie Masse fourth

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

M100 Back: Coetzé Leads A Podium Of Sub-52 Pioneers

On his World title, the South African ace said: “To do it this year is amazing and I can’t say it was expected, especially because it was a gamble going to the World University Games right before this. But it’s working pretty well.”

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

W1500Free: Ledecky Finds A Sixth Way Of Winning A World Crown To Remain Undefeated

Simona Quadarella’s magnificent 15:31 European record means that Katie Ledecky now “only” has the fastest 11 swims over 1500m freestyle, but the legends continues to grow with every passing victory over 30 lengths, the best of them likely swamp the all-time lists for many more championships to come

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

M200 Free: Popovici Gives Hobson No Choice Down The Last Length To Gold Again

“I think that was even better than the Olympics ... because I trained a lot for the Olympics but this year I came here much from a more relaxed place. I’m really proud of myself.” - David Popovici

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

The Records - Day 3:

Championship, continental and national... heats, sets and finals: