Noè Ponti is no longer just the first Swiss swimmer to claim a global swim title - he’s the first to claim two. A day after gold in the 50m butterfly in World-record time, he took the 100m medley title in a championship record of 50.33 on day 4 at the World S/C Championships in Budapest.

In the ebb and flow of the littlest medley race of all, of just one lap on each stroke, Ponti, flowed through his quartet of speedy talent in second on 'fly (Michael Andrew a touch faster down the first length), first after backstroke, third after breaststroke (Andrew ahead again) before thumping the rest with a 12.30 on freestyle as he only man inside 13 down the last length.

Other day 4 reports:

Walsh Wallops The WR Books Twice More: 52.8 100 ’Fly Semi The Warm-Up For 55.11 Gold in 100IM

Before the medley victory, a first-ever sub-53 100 ’fly for women makes Walsh faster on butterfly than the 1990s World 100m s/c records on freestyle of Van Almsick and Le and takes the American within a whisker of Swedish sprinter Therese Alshammar’s first global standard on freestyle 25 years ago

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

Douglass Dominates In 2:12.50, Her Third S/C 200m Breast WR In Six Weeks, The Russian Question Sunk

At the World Short-Course Championships at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Douglass dispatched all rivals in the opening 50m and went from strength to strength all the way to gold in a time 0.22sec swifter than the second of her World records on World Cup tour in October.

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

USA Takes Down Six WRs In A Day, Two Each For Walsh & Hobson In The Mix

Gretchen Walsh and Luke Hobson - inside Paul Biedermann’s shiny suits 200m free mark leading the USA to a WR victory in the 4x200 free - accounted for two WRs each as Americans went swooped up six new global standards on day 4 the World S/C Champs, Regan Smith among the dashing pioneers

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

In Ponti's wash, Austria's Bernhard Reitshammer held on to the second place he got to by the last turn after flipping to breaststroke in seventh. The bronze went to Caio Pumputis, of Brazil, who overhauled Andrew in the rush to the wall and pipped the American by 0.02.

New Reign From Spain

Carles Coll Marti will be toasted through the night back home in Spain, his 2:01.55 victory from lane 2 in the 200m breaststroke an historic win for his country.

Having hit the helm of the race by half-way he refused to yield: when 'neutral' Kirill Prigoda moved up from fourth to second by the last turn over in lane 6, the Spaniard suck up a 'you shall not pass' sign as the two put in the only sub-16 efforts down the last length, Coll Marti 0.05sec the faster of the men and 0.33 ahead of Prigoda, who's silver held off Japan's Yamato Fukasawa.

Gose Gets Gold

Germany's Isabel Gose took the 1500m free in 15:24.69 over Italy's Simone Quadarella, on 15:30.14, the bronze to American Jillian Cox in 15:41.29: