Michael Phelps's shocking flop in the 400m freestyle heats on Sunday left Australian Grant Hackett to cruise to his expected coronation at the 11th World Swimming Championships.
Phelps, whose eight medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics included six golds, had hoped to challenge Hackett in the less familiar freestyle event, but could only post the 18th-fastest time in the morning preliminaries.
Hackett, who had taken silver behind compatriot and world record-holder Ian Thorpe at the last three world meets, said he was sorry he didn't get a chance to take on Phelps, but he was delighted with his own performance in both the heats and final.
He said he didn't feel extra pressure in the absence of Thorpe, who decided to skip the worlds in this post-Olympic year.
Hackett said he tired in the final 100m, but put that down to too little rest between the heats and the final. Overall, he said, his opening day performance augured well for his remaining events, the 200m, 800m and 1,500m free, as well as the 4x200m free relay.
COLLATED RESULTS
SWIMMING -MEN -400M FREESTYLE FINAL:
1. Grant Hackett (AUS) 3:42.91 - gold medal
2. Yuri Prilukov (RUS) 3:44.44 - silver medal
3. Oussama Mellouli (TUN) 3:46.08 - bronze medal
4. Massimiliano Rosolino (ITA) 3:46.91, 5. Dragos Coman (ROM) 3:47.15, 6. Peter Vanderkaay (USA) 3:47.83, 7. Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 3:48.60, 8. Nicolas Rostoucher (FRA) 3:50.51
4x100m freestyle relay final
1. United States (Michael Phelps, Neil Walker, Nate Dusing, Jason Lezak) 3:13.77 -- gold medal
2. Canada (Yannick Lupien, Rick Say, Mike Mintenko, Brent Hayden) 3:16.44 - silver medal
3. Australia (Michael Klim, Andrew Mewing, Leith Brodie, Patrick Murphy) 3:17.56 -- bronze medal
4. Lithuania 3:17.89, 5. Sweden 3:17.95, 6. Germany 3:18.12, 7. Russia 3:18.44, 8. Netherlands 3:19.34
50m Butterfly Semi-Finals:
Qualifiers for final: 1. Roland Schoeman (RSA) 23.01, 2. Ian Crocker (USA) 23.32, 3. Sergiy Breus (UKR) 23.53, 4. Fernando Scherer (BRA) 23.55, 5. Ryk Neethling (RSA) 23.62, 6. Duje Draganja (CRO) 23.71, 7. Evgeny Korotyshkin (RUS) 23.82, 8. Mike Mentenko (CAN) 23.85
100m breaststroke semi-finals
Qualifiers for final: 1. Brendan Hansen (USA) 59.75, 2. Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) 59.78, 3. Oleg Lisogor (UKR) 1:00.06, 4. Hugues Duboscq (FRA) 1:00.11, 5. Chris Cook (GBR) 1:00.64, 6. Emil Tahirovic (SLO) 1:00.84, 7. Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) 1:01.28, 8. Dmitry Komornikov (RUS) 1:01.30
WOMEN: 400m FREESTYLE FINAL:
1. Laure Manaudou (FRA) 4:06.44 - gold medal
2. Ai Shibata (JPN) 4:06.74 - silver medal
3. Caitlin McClatchey (GBR) 4:07.25 - bronze medal
4. Brittany Reimer (CAN) 4:07.32, 5. Camelia Potec (ROM) 4:08.06, 6. Linda MacKenzie (AUS) 4:08.75, 7. Joanne Jackson (GBR) 4:08.88, 8. Claudia Poll (CRC) 4:10.02
4x100m Freestyle Final:
1. Australia (Jodie Henry, Alice Mills, Shayne Reese, Lisbeth Lenton) 3:37.32 - gold medal
2. Germany (Petra Dallmann, Antje Buschschulte, Annika Liebs, Daniela Gotz) 3:38.24 - silver medal
3. United States (Natalie Coughlin, Kara Lynn Joyce, Lacey Nymeyer, Amanda Weir) 3:38.31 - bronze medal
4. Netherlands 3:39.37, 5. France 3:39.45, 6. China 3:42.10, 7. Sweden 3:42.93, 8. New Zealand 3:44.84
100m butterfly semi-finals:
QUALIFIERS FOR FINAL: 1. Jess Schipper (AUS) 57.75, 2. Lisbeth Lenton (AUS) 58.11, 3. Otylia Jedrzejczak (POL) 58.19, 4. Inge Dekker (NED) 58.73, 5. Mary Descenza (USA) 58.88, 6. Rachel Komisarz (USA) 58.93, 7. Martina Moravcova (SVK) 59.02, 8. Zhou Yafei (CHN) 59.17
200m individual medley semi-finals
Qualifiers for final: 1. Katie Hoff (USA) 2:11.71, 2. Kirsty Coventry (ZIM) 2:13.40, 3. Lara Carroll (AUS) 2:13.68, 4. Brooke Hanson (AUS) 2:13.83, 5. Katarzyna Barankowska (POL) 2:13.86, 6. Whitney Myers (USA) 2:14.03, 7. Maiko Fujino (JPN) 2:15.13, 8. Zsuzsuanna Jakabos (HUN) 2:16.30
DIVING: Men's 10m synchronised platform
FINAL:
1. Dmitry Dobroskok/Gleb Galperin (RUS) 392.88 - gold medal
2. Yang Jinghui/Hu Jia (CHN) 374.79 - silver medal
3. Peter Waterfield/Leon Taylor (GBR) 367.95 - bronze medal
4. Roman Volodkov/Anton Zakhav (UKR) 353.40, 5. Erik Fornaris/Jose Antonio Guerra (CUB) 346.44, 6. Vadzim Kaptur/Aliaksandr Varlamov (BLR) 334.95, 7. Michele Benedetti/Francesco Dell'Uomo (ITA) 326.76, 8. Sotirio Trakas/Ioannis Gavriilidis (GRE) 325.62, 9. Omar Ojeda/Rommel Pacheco (MEX) 317.70, 10. Bryan Nickson/JamesSandayud (MAS) 314.46, 11. Rile McCormick/Wegadesk Gorup-Paul (CAN) 309.06, 12. Sascha Klein/Norman Becker (GER) 295.83
Women's 3m synchronised springboard
Final
1. Li Ting/Guo Jingjing (CHN) 349.80 pts - gold medal
2. Ditte Kotzian/Conny Schmalfuss (GER) 319.05 - silver medal
3. Kristina Ishchenko/Olena Fedorova (UKR) 308.82 - bronze medal
4. Paola Espoinosa/Jashia Luna (MEX) 291.06, 5. Noemi Batki/Francesca Dallape (ITA) 288.87, 6. Dolores Saez de Ibarra/Leyre Eizaguirre (ESP) 286.98, 7. Amanda Moran/Martha Dale (CAN) 285.42, 8. Sharleen Stratton/Briony Cole (AUS) 280.44, 9. Tandi Indergaard/Hayley Sage (GBR) 276.12, 10. Eleni Hatzimitrou/Christina Tsiripidou (GRE) 262.50, 11. Yana Zaytseva/Anastasia Pozdniakova (RUS) 261.60, 12. Nancilea Underwood/Christina Loukas (USA) 260.28
WATER POLO: MEN PRELIMINARY 2ND ROUND (FOR QUARTER-FINAL BERTHS)
Spain 17 Cuba 2
Italy 6 United States 5
Croatia 10 Australia 6
Romania 6 Germany 5
Matches for 13-16 place
South Africa 8 Japan 13
Canada 11 China 5.
MEDALS TABLE:
MONTREAL: Medals table at the 11th World Swimming Championships after Sunday's events:
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Gold Silver Bronze Total
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China 5 4 3 12
Russia 5 2 1 8
United States 3 3 2 8
Canada 3 1 1 5
Australia 2 3 1 6
Netherlands 2 0 1 3
France 2 0 0 2
Germany 1 5 2 8
Spain 1 1 3 5
Italy 0 2 3 5
Japan 0 2 1 3
Cuba 0 1 0 1
Bulgaria 0 0 2 2
Britain 0 0 2 2
Tunisia 0 0 1 1
Ukraine 0 0 1 1
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