Overview
- Over 2,500 athletes from 210 national federations will compete in swimming, diving, artistic swimming, water polo, open-water swimming and high diving across Singapore from July 27 to August 3.
- A temporary pool constructed at the Singapore Sports Hub will host all swimming and artistic swimming events, with heats in daytime sessions and finals at 7 p.m. local time.
- Summer McIntosh enters five individual events after breaking world records in the 400m freestyle and both individual medleys at Canadian trials, aiming to match Michael Phelps’s single-meet gold record.
- Katie Ledecky, a nine-time Olympic gold medallist and 21-time world champion, is entered in the 400m and 800m freestyle to defend her distance titles and face McIntosh in their headline duel.
- Leon Marchand will concentrate on the 200m and 400m individual medleys following recovery from a shoulder dislocation and fractured rib, while four-time Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus remains on a 12-month break.