Showing posts with label 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships. Show all posts

Sunday, July 28, 2019

Simone Manuel: 1st woman to win 7 medals in single world swimming championships

After becoming the first American woman in history to sweep the 50 and 100 free at the FINA World Aquatics Championships Sunday, and then anchoring world record on the women’s 4×100 medley relay, Simone Manuel completed the most decorated performance by a woman in Worlds history by winning seven total medals.

Manuel won four golds and three silvers throughout the week. In addition to the free sprint wins and women’s medley relay, she was on the winning mixed 4×100 medley relay, then took silver on the women’s 4×200 free relay and 4×100 free relay, and mixed 4×100 free relay.

Manuel shared the previous record of six medals (she did it in 2017) with seven other women: Shirley Babashoff (1975), Tracy Caulkins (1978), Mary T. Meagher (1986), Kristin Otto (1986), Missy Franklin (2013), Katie Ledecky (2017), and Emma McKeon (2017).

With Sunday’s relay finish, Manuel ties Missy Franklin in medal count (16) and now trails only Katie Ledecky in medal caliber, but American Natalie Coughlin and Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom are also ahead of her in overall count with 20 and 17, respectively.

[SOURCE: SWIMSWAM]