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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — With some of America's biggest stars deciding to stay home, Claire Curzan and Hunter Armstrong claimed the spotlight at the World Aquatics Championships on Tuesday. Curzan won gold in the women's 100-meter backstroke at the Aspire Dome, while Armstrong followed just a few minutes later with a victory in the men's 100 back. The 19-year-old Curzan, who competes at the University of Virginia, claimed the first individual world title of her burgeoning career. After settling for bronze in the 100 back at the last two world championships, the Ohio native now has a gold. Hobson, part of a scaled-back team for these world championships, gave himself a big boost with the Paris Olympics just five months away.

Persons: Claire Curzan, Hunter Armstrong, Curzan, Armstrong, Simona Quadarella, Italy romped, Hwang Sun, Kaylee McKeown, Regan Smith, Iona Anderson, Canada's Ingrid Wilm, ” Curzan, ” Armstrong, “, Spain’s Hugo Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Ryan Murphy, Quadarella, Katie Ledecky, Ledecky, Li Bingjie, Isabel Gose, Hwang, Luke Hobson, Danas Rapsys, Hobson, ”, Kim Woo Organizations: University of Virginia, Paris, Cal, Doha, Ledecky, Olympic, Paris Olympics, University of Texas Locations: DOHA, Qatar, U.S, Doha, Italy, South Korea, Fukuoka, Ohio, Paris, Quadarella, China, Germany, Nevada

☆ Meilutyte shatters breaststroke record at worlds; Hafnaoui wins
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 30 (Reuters) - Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania set her second world record in as many days in the women's 50 metres breaststroke, powering to the gold medal in a time of 29.16 seconds at the World Aquatics Championships on Sunday. Meilutyte smashed the record of 29.30 seconds that she had jointly held with Benedetta Pilato of Italy after setting that mark in her semi-final on Saturday. She was 0.78 seconds ahead of silver medallist Lilly King of the United States. Ahmed Hafnaoui ensured a second gold of the meeting for Tunisia after edging past Bobby Finke of the United States in a fiercely contested men's 1,500m freestyle race. He finished in 14 minutes 31.54 seconds to miss out on Sun Yang's world record of 14:31.02.

Persons: Ruta, Meilutyte, Benedetta Pilato, Lilly King, Pilato, Ahmed Hafnaoui, Bobby Finke, Finke, Australia's Sam Short, Hunter Armstrong, Justin Ress, China's Xu Jiayu, Shrivathsa Sridhar, Clare Fallon Organizations: Marine Messe Fukuoka, Thomson Locations: FUKUOKA, Japan, Lithuania, Italy, United States, Tunisia, U.S, Bengaluru

☆ Ledecky dominates, Richards leads British one-two at world championships
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

It was the perfect response for Ledecky, who was dethroned and left disappointed by the record-breaking Ariarne Titmus in Sunday's 400m freestyle event. Earlier, Richards finished strongly to bag the gold ahead of compatriot Tom Dean in his freestyle event with a solid time of one minute, 44.30 seconds. "I knew going into the race it was one of the most stacked 200 freestyle fields for a long time. Olympic champion Dean finished 0.02 seconds behind to take silver and Hwang Sun-woo of South Korea took the bronze, while 2022 world champion David Popovici of Romania missed out on a podium spot. She charged to victory in the event in 57.53 seconds to edge out 2022 world champion Regan Smith of the United States by 0.25 seconds and Katharine Berkoff by 0.72 seconds.

Persons: Katie Ledecky, Marko Djurica, Matthew Richards, Ledecky, Simona Quadarella, Li Bingjie, I'm, Richards, Tom Dean, Dean, Hwang Sun, David Popovici, Kaylee McKeown, Australia's, Regan Smith, Katharine Berkoff, McKeown, Smith, Italy's Thomas Ceccon, Ryan Murphy, Murphy, Hunter Armstrong, Lilly King, Lithuania's Meilutyte, Shrivathsa Sridhar, Toby Davis Organizations: Marine Messe Fukuoka, Britain, London Games, Thomson Locations: Fukuoka, Japan, Marko Djurica FUKUOKA, United States, British, South Korea, Romania, Barcelona, Bengaluru

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