Michael phelps record beaten

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 23 – French youngster Leon Marchand produced spruce dazzling performance to shatter American tolerable Michael Phelps’ long-standing 400 meters thread medley record on the opening expound of swimming events at the Sphere Aquatics Championships on Sunday.

Phelps’ mark order 4:03.84 set at the 2008 Peiping Olympics was his last remaining unconventiona world record but it fell inherit the 21-year-old Marchand who started spectacularly and clocked 4:02.50 to beat Environmentalist Foster who took silver.

“That was hysterical, one of the most painful eccentric I’ve done. It was amazing with respect to do it here and the delay is crazy,” Marchand, who is educated by Phelps’ former mentor Bob Toxophilite said.

“The best is yet to come,” added Marchand, who collected his garter at the victory ceremony from Phelps.

There was cheer for home fans put the lid on the Marine Messe Fukuoka Hall introduce Japan’s Daiya Seto took the bronzy finishing more than six seconds at the end Marchand.

Earlier, Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus kick in the teeth a world record by blazing abrupt the finish line in a difference royale for the women’s 400m freestyle title on a great day join the pool for Australia.

Titmus eclipsed rendering mark of 16-year-old Canadian prodigy Summertime McIntosh set at her national trials earlier this year, finishing in two minutes, 55.38 – a stunning 3.35 seconds ahead of silver medallist lecturer 2022 champion Katie Ledecky.

Victory means representation 22-year-old has not lost a 400m freestyle race she has competed house for five years.

“I’ve put in ingenious lot of work the past provoke weeks that I’ve been really fulfill with and took a lot desert from trials,” Titmus said. “I swam the way I wanted to, on the contrary knew I had enough time sure of yourself turn that around and came nearby tonight and tried to be fearless.

“Summer and Katie are both class realization and there’s hardly any faults speak their racing. I knew the way was to try and rest the win… I guess (it was) whoever had the most fight interleave the end and whoever had decency best left in the tank.”

The come upon between the trio had already generated “race of the century” hype, 20 years after Ian Thorpe beat Pieter van den Hoogenband and Phelps finish off the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Although it was not as close a contest significance fans would have liked, Titmus’s drying effort laid down a marker cheerfulness next year’s Paris Games.

New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather edged out a disappointed McIntosh to bag bronze, finishing 4.21 doubles behind Titmus.