FUKUOKA, Japan — Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh should be a star at next year’s Paris Olympics, and she showed why Sunday on the closing day of the swimming world championships in Japan. That made up for a slow start for the young Canadian, who finished fourth in the 400 free, where she held the world record until Australia’s Ariarne Titmus …
Tunisia’s Ahmed Hafnaoui won the men’s 800m freestyle at swimming’s world championships on Wednesday. Hafnaoui, the reigning Olympic 400m freestyle champion2, took silver behind Short in the 400m freestyle on the competition’s opening night. Qin Haiyang wins 50m breaststroke gold Gold medallist Haiyang Qin of Team China looks on during the medal ceremony for Men’s 50m Breaststroke Final on day …
The teenager squeaked into the final by 14-hundredths of a second, landing him in the far outside lane. Nobody was watching Ahmed Hafnaoui in lane eight of the Olympic pool but all eyes were on the Tunisian teenager at the finish. “I was so surprised.” Australia’s Jack McLoughlin earned silver and American Kieran Smith took bronze. Asked what he knew …
