Peak Performance | Parting Shot of the Night

Noe Ponti delivers a masterclass in the Men's 50m Butterfly.

Current World Records broken through Day 2 in Duna Arena: Nine. Nice. 

Mixed 4x50m Medley Relay | Neutral Athletes Take Gold

The Mixed 4x50m Relay quartet of Miron Lifintsev, Kirill Prigoda, Arina Surkova and Daria Trifimova takes the gold ahead of fastest qualifiers Canada (Kylie Masse, Finlay Knox, Ilya Kharun, Ingrid Wilm) and the United States (Shaine Casas, Michael Andrew, Regan Smith, Katharine Berkoff). 

Catch Me If You Can | Pallister in a Field of Her Own in the Women's 800m Freestyle

Australia's Lani Pallister adds another short-course World title to her collection with a dominant display in the Women's 800m Freestyle, going 8:01.95 to trim nearly a second off the Championship Record. That makes it five golds for Pallister in the 25m pool after she took the 400m, 800, 1500m and 4x200m Freestyle Relay titles two years ago in Melbourne. 

1. Lani Pallister (AUS) - 8:01.95 - Continental Record

2. Isabel Gose (GER) - 8:05.43

3. Katie Grimes (USA) - 8:05.90

Another Double Crown Winner | Ponti's Night Gets Better

First World title? Check. 

Another World Record in the Men's 50m Butterfly? Check. 

Additional $10,000 bonus check (along with the two $25,000 checks Ponti earned for setting two World Records the last two days in Duna Arena, and gold medal prize money) for going undefeated in the distance in both the Swimming World Cup and the World Swimming Championships? Check. 

Ponti Perfect | Swiss Sets Another World Record in the Men's 50m Butterfly

Trailing in second at the turn, Noe Ponti of Switzerland left no doubt on the back half of the Men's 50m Butterfly Final to take his first global title while resetting the World Record at 21.32. That's another two World Records for Ponti in the Duna Arena pool as he sliced .11 seconds off yesterday's performance. 

1. Noe Ponti (SUI) - 21.32 - World Record

2. Ilya Kharun (CAN) - 21.67 - Americas Record

3. Nyls Korstanje (NED) - 21.68

Gretchen Walsh Butterfly Show | Just off her World Record, American Takes Her First Individual World Title

Gretchen Walsh might have had the slowest reaction time of the field off the blocks (.75 seconds), but the American powered through the field to the second-fastest time ever in the Women's 50m Butterfly to take her first individual World title in the 25m pool. 

1. Gretchen Walsh (USA) - 24.01

2. Beryl Gastaldello (FRA) - 24.43

3. Alexandria Perkins (AUS) - 24.68 - Oceania Record

Men's 100m Breaststroke Semifinal | Prigoda Takes Lane 4

Neutral athlete Kirill Prigoda will occupy Lane 4 as the fastest qualifier for the finals in the Men's 100m Breaststroke. 

1. Kirill Prigoda (NAB) - 56.02

2. Qin Haiyang (CHN) - 56.04

3. Ilya Shymanovich (NAA) - 56.21

Full Results: Men's 100m Breaststroke Semifinal

Women's 100m Breaststroke Semifinal | Tang Fastest

China's Tang Qianting, the gold medallist in this event for the Abu Dhabi 2021 Worlds, puts herself in pole position to do the same in Budapest. 

1.  Tang Qianting (CHN) - 1:02.37 - Asian Record

2. Lilly King (USA) - 1:03.23

3. Evgeniia Chikunova (NAB) - 1:03.70

Full Results: Women's 100m Breaststroke Semifinal

Men's 100m Freestyle | Semifinal Round-Up

Jordan Crooks of the Cayman Islands didn't quite duplicate his 44.95 from the morning prelims where he set the Championship and Continental (Americas) Record. But Crooks' 45.22 was just enough to come back on USA's Jack Alexy and out-touch him for the fastest time headed into the Men's 100m Freestyle Final. Egor Kornev (NAB) posts the third fastest time   

1. Jordan Crooks (CAY) - 45.22

2. Jack Alexy (USA) - 45.29

3. Egor Kornev (NAB) - 45.52

Full Results: Men's 100m Freestyle

Women's 100m Freestyle | Semifinal Round-Up 

USA's Gretchen Walsh proves she's feeling it in freestyle as well. After two individual World Records already in the butterfly in Duna Arena, she goes 50.49 to set the Championship Record to qualify in Lane 4 for Thursday's final. 

1. Gretchen Walsh (USA) - 50.49 - Championship Record

2. Beryl Gastaldello (FRA) - 51.56

3. Kate Douglass (USA) - 51.67

Full Results: Women's 100m Freestyle Semifinals

Podium Presentation | Precious Medal Jigsaw Puzzle

Collect all three in Duna Arena to complete the famous Chain Bridge.

Miron Lifintsev Upsets Hubert Kos in the Men's 100m Backstroke 

Neutral athlete Miron Lifintsev came back strongest in the final 25m to out-touch Hungary's Hubert Kos for the win and set the World Junior Record. 

1. Miron Lifitsev (NAB) - 48.76 - World Junior Record

2. Hubert Kos (HUN) - 48.79

3.  Kacper Stokowski (POL) - 49.16

Watch It One More Time | Only Regan Has Gone Faster... Than Regan Tonight

Big Checks | Regan Smith Cashes in with a Double Crown Bonus of USD 10,000

Championship Record Start to Day 2 Finals | Regan Smith Goes 54.55 in the Women's 100m Backstroke

Regan Smith and Katharine Berkoff both go under the Championship Record time of 55.03 to start night two with a gold-silver for Team USA as Canada's Ingrid Wilm secures bronze. 

1. Regan Smith (USA) - 54.27 - Championship Record

2. Katharine Berkoff (USA) - 54.93

3. Ingrid Wilm (CAN) - 55.75

Insight | First Race of the Night

The World Record progression in the short course Women's 100m Backstroke:

Prelude to What's to Come? 

Jordan Crooks is a BEAST in the pool

The Caymanian will definitely be one to watch for in tonight's Men's 100m Freestyle Finals. He won gold in the 50m Free at the last Short Course Worlds in Melbourne 2022. Can he double the distance and claim his second career global title tonight?  

Medal Events on Offer | Day 2 Edition

Here are the medal events on offer tonight: 

• Women 100m Backstroke
• Men 100m Backstroke
• Women 50m Butterfly
• Men 50m Butterfly
• Mixed 4x50m Medley Relay

And here's the line-up of tonight's semifinals:

• Women 100m Freestyle
• Men 100m Freestyle
• Women 100m Breaststroke
• Men 100m Breaststroke

Can USA's Gretchen Walsh make history by breaking the Women's 50m Butterfly World Record in three consecutive swims at the same Championships?

What about Switzerland's Noe Ponti? Between the Swimming World Cup and Semis here in Hungary, he's already claimed the Men's 50m Butterfly World Record three times this year already. Could he make it four tonight in Duna Arena? He has three short-course World medals (two silver and a bronze from Abu Dhabi 2021 and Melbourne 2022) and an Olympic butterfly bronze from Tokyo 2020 but he is still hunting for his first global title. Could tonight be the night? 

And then there's the Women's 50m Backstroke where USA's Regan Smith will be chasing the event's World Record that she already owns. 

You know the Hungarians - and especially the hometown crowd - have the Men's 100m Backstroke circled on their calendars where the reigning Olympic champion in the 200m Backstroke, Hubert Kos, will be looking to add a World short course medal to the 21-year-old's growing collection. 

And then the night ends fittingly with the Mixed 4x50m Medley Relay. Canada topped the morning heats, closely followed by Sweden, USA, Australia and Japan. 

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