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Swimming-American Les wins 50m backstroke gold after review, Macintosh takes 400m medley

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Budapest — American Justin Ress wins a gold medal in a 50m backstroke in a dramatic situation after officials overturned his first disqualification after a lengthy review at the World Championships in Budapest on Saturday. I got it. The

victory was previously awarded to his compatriot Hunter Armstrong after it was determined that none of Les's body was above the surface when he first reached the wall.

Les, who had been accelerating in the heat and semi-finals, later returned as the winner and the medal ceremony was held again. Armstrong won the silver medal and Polish teenager Ksawery Mashiuk won the bronze medal.

Canada's summer Macintosh makes a great run in the Hungarian capital after defeating 15-year-old American teen Katie Grimes to win the 400-meter medley title. I continued. American swimmer Emma Weyant came in third.

"It's really cool to compete with someone like Katie. She's close to my age and she's a really tough competitor," McIntosh said. "So I'm looking forward to racing with her and keep pushing myself."

Rio Olympic gold medalist Gregorio Paltrinieri said at 14: 32.80. He finished comfortably ahead of Robert Finke and Florian Wellbrock and set a new championship record in the 1,500m freestyle.

The Italians saw the course to break Sun Yang's 14: 31.02 world record, but declined in the last 100 meters.

"Many people thought I was done. I'm not the one to influence others, but I've been skeptical these days." Twenty-seven-year-old Paltrinieri told reporters.

"Then I said" no "and felt strong, but I had to prove it in the race ... I was in Lane 1 and felt the whole arena, I didn't think much. And today was not a time priority. Today I jumped in with the will to win.

Sweden's Sarah Sjoström beats Katargina Wasic and Meg Harris to win the 19th individual medal at the World Championships and her remarkable victory list with a 50m freestyle crown. Added to.

At the team event, Italy beat the United States 0.28 seconds in the men's 4x100m medley relay, but Britain was almost four seconds behind in third place.

However, Americans are female because the Regan Smith, Lilly King, Torri Huske, and Claire Curzan quartets proved too strong for Australian silver medalists. I took the lead at the event. Located in Canada.

"We are very proud of the relay and wanted to have a really good time and get the money back from last summer (Olympic). We came out. I did it, and it was a great race, "said Carzan, who fixed the US home.

Former Olympic champion Ruta Meilutyte won the gold medal in the women's 50m breaststroke, 0.10 seconds ahead of Italy's Benedetta Pilat, and South Africa's Larafanniekerk returned in third place. ..

Lithuanian Meilutyte received a 24-month suspension in 2019 due to an anti-doping breach and returned to her competitive action only in December last year.

(Report by Dhruv Munjal on Bangalore editing by Toby Davis)