FUKUOKA, Japan Watch out for these two young swimmers when you take in next year's Paris Olympics: 21-year-old Leon Marchand of France and 16-year-old Summer McIntosh of Canada. Marchand won his third gold medal at the swimming world championships, taking the 200-meter individual medley on Thursday in 1 minute, 54.82 seconds.…
John Mason, the announcer at the swimming world championships, stuck a nickname on Mollie O'Callaghan after the 19-year-old Australian added the 100-meter freestyle title to her gold in the 200 two days earlier.
Watch out for these two young swimmers when you take in next year's Paris Olympics: 21-year-old Leon Marchand of France and 16-year-old Summer McIntosh of Canada. Marchand won his third gold medal at the swimming world championships, taking the 200-meter individual medley on Thursday in 1 minute, 54.82 seconds. Add this to his earlier gold in the 200 butterfly, and his world record in the 400 IM the last individual record held by Michael Phelps.
Watch out for these two young swimmers when you take in next year's Paris Olympics: 21-year-old Leon Marchand of France and 16-year-old Summer McIntosh of Canada.