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Niwot’s Isaiah Richart isn’t letting his disabilities keep from anything — including gold – Boulder Daily Camera

NIWOT — Inside a track and field program stuffed with collegiate stars, and often Olympians, is the boy who couldn’t walk. Born in the country of Burkina Faso, Isaiah Richart spent the first years of his life in an orphanage. And though much of the detail around those years are murky, more can be pieced […]

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NIWOT — Inside a track and field program stuffed with collegiate stars, and often Olympians, is the boy who couldn’t walk.

Born in the country of Burkina Faso, Isaiah Richart spent the first years of his life in an orphanage. And though much of the detail around those years are murky, more can be pieced together.

Within a day of giving birth to Isaiah — her seventh child — his mother died from hemorrhaging, leaving Isaiah without any other family willing or capable of taking him in. His early caregivers weren’t sure what the future held for the child. Especially as he suffered through several early illnesses, including bouts of malaria that left his body depleted and his cognitive development impaired.

At nearly 3, he still wasn’t walking. There was hope, maybe someday he could, by the grace of God. At least coming from his future parents who were waiting in Longmont.

“We prayed,” Jessie Richart remembered.

She and her husband Ross believe in the power of prayer and said it helped their adopted son walk by the time they picked him up in October of 2013. They weren’t given any other reason for it.

Jessie, a special education teacher in Longmont, and Ross, who has been a police officer in Boulder for more than two decades, were already in the business of helping others. Though they had two kids of their own, they sought out what more they could do. And adoption just felt right.

They worked with an agency. Then more than one. In the middle of the process, this out of Rwanda, they suffered disappointment when its country officials suddenly shut things down.

Finally, after 18 arduous months, they were able to pick up their new son. And today, 11 years later, he is a freshman at Niwot High School who — and you couldn’t make this up — runs track.

Two weeks ago, in fact, Isaiah won gold in the Unified 100- and 200-meter runs at the state meet.

Isaiah Richart was born in Burkina Faso, Africa, in Jan. of 2010. His mother died at birth and Isaiah was in an orphanage from day one. He was on a waiting child list for several years due to his inability to walk, most likely due to sickness from an early age.(Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer) — Niwot’s Isaiah Richart won a pair of Unified sprint distance races at the state championships last month, and track coach Maurice Henriques envisions Richart getting a chance to compete in varsity relays with continued training. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)

“Just keep going no matter what,” Isaiah said when asked about his first season in high school track. “Just keep going, (even) if it hurts.”

The kind of attitude Niwot’s track and field coach loves to hear from his young athletes.

Maurice Henriques, better known as Coach Mo around the sport, played football for Bill McCartney at the University of Colorado in the 1990s. And like Coach Mac (who died in January after a long battle with dementia), the 52-year-old coach evaluates success with a long lens.

Reflecting on his own story, Henriques could start with the worst day of his life. Forty-three years ago, he recalled, his dad snapped, shooting and killing his sister and her boyfriend before jumping to his own death.

His dad’s last words to him were to take care of his mother, who would teach her son the importance of focusing on the two things in life you can control: attitude and effort. With hard work in those areas, she instilled into him that the possibilities are endless.

In his decades of coaching, Henriques has seen the power of his mother’s words in action. He remembers Jessica Watkins jotting down her desire to be an astronaut in a written exercise he’d assigned her back when he was the coach at Fairview in the early 2000s. Three years ago, Watkins became the first Black woman to serve on a long-duration space mission.

Elise Cranny, too. When she was a junior at Niwot, she marked down that she wanted to be an Olympian. And Henriques sent her the paper she wrote, ahead of her first of two Olympic Games in 2021.

“I think sometimes as adults in our society, we want to put people in boxes,” Henriques said. “And we’re not putting Isaiah in a box. Man, it’d be cool, that by his senior year, he’s on our 4×100 team at state.” He then doubles down on the notion. “He’s fast enough, and we should be able to teach him what he needs to do to be able to do that. You’re talking about a story. That would be a great story.”

It wouldn’t be the first great story about Isaiah, who despite disabilities had times from this past track season that gives Henriques vision merit.

Isaiah won the Unified 100 at state in 13.07 seconds, while his personal-best time on the year was slightly under 13. That’s promising considering the average leg for the last-placed boys’ 4×100 team at the state meet clocked in at 12.4.

“Yeah, Isaiah smoked cats,” Torrey Staton said.

Staton is a paraeducator for the school. He assists Isaiah and other special-needs students in anything from academics to athletics. He was the reason Isaiah first got involved with the track team, saying after he saw the freshman’s athleticism early into the school year he thought it could be a great fit.

“I said early on to Isaiah, ‘You’re going to be the fastest in Colorado,’” said Staton, who’d been convinced about the school’s track program years earlier, so much so that he and his son Kingston trek from their Arvada home to be a part of it. “I told him he is going to win Unified and it was going to be by a landslide.” He laughs. “And it wasn’t by a landslide, but he absolutely did win.”

The whole experience was fun, Isaiah said.

But he still prefers basketball.

“I just complain the whole time,” Staton said about working with Isaiah on his shot during gym class. “I’m like, ‘Get your elbow in!’”

Isaiah is always looking for ways to improve.

In track, he blossomed socially, too, something that would’ve been hard to imagine when he first came to the U.S. and only knew a broken variation of the African tribal language called Mooré and French. He’d asked his parents for yogurt in French when he got to his new home, then ate tons of it. His first word in English came quickly, “candy” — just in time for Halloween.

LAKEWOOD: Niwot's Isaiah Richart running at the state track and field meet in May. (Photo courtesy of Jessie Richart. By David Anthony) — LAKEWOOD: Niwot’s Isaiah Richart running at the state track and field meet in May. (Photo courtesy of Jessie Richart. By David Anthony)

Today, his conversations are deeper. Isaiah is still quiet by nature out in public. But when comfortable, he often shares his thoughts about life and the world as he sees it. And those closest to him say they can’t get enough of his sense of humor. His dad sets him up, asking if he thinks his older brother would be any good at track. Isaiah deadpans, “Uh, probably not.”

Staton is let in, too.

“He is a slew of unknown knowledge,” Staton said. “Like he’ll say something about tsunamis or about galaxies, like something so random. He’s just a great kid. Awesome kid.”

Isaiah found kinship in his competition, too.

At one race this past season, he took some playful trash-talk from another Unified athlete, who told him he hopes he enjoys the view of his backside. Shortly after Isaiah handily beat everyone, Staton recalled, the other kid came up to say, “Wow, I didn’t know you’d be that fast. I don’t think I’ll ever be that fast.”

At another, Isaiah told someone else on the starting line that he hoped they would win.

“He just says that,” his dad recalls with a smile. “Just very nicely, ‘I hope you win this race.’ The Unified athletes are all very kind. They’re competitive, but they’re just very kind to one another.”

By the team’s year-end banquet, his mom still thought Isaiah would stay by her side. But he didn’t. When she found him, he was fist-bumping teammates. “They’ve embraced him,” she smiled.

He’s the boy who couldn’t walk. But now, he has certainly found his stride. “And,” his dad adds, “he has more in the tank.”

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Open water program at swimming worlds begins after two delays

Jul 16, 2025, 06:20 AM ET Open water competition at the World Swimming Championships went off Wednesday after two postponements because of water-quality problems at Sentosa, the island area on the coast of Singapore. Florian Wellbrock of Germany won the men’s 10-kilometer race in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 55.50 seconds. Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy was […]

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Open water competition at the World Swimming Championships went off Wednesday after two postponements because of water-quality problems at Sentosa, the island area on the coast of Singapore.

Florian Wellbrock of Germany won the men’s 10-kilometer race in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 55.50 seconds. Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy was 3.7 seconds behind in second place, and Kyle Lee of Australia was third in 2:00:10.3.

Moesha Johnson of Australia won the women’s 10-kilometer race in 2:07:51.3. Ginevra Taddeucci of Italy took silver in 2:07.55.7, with bronze for Lisa Pou of Monaco in 2:07.57.5.

Wellbrock took gold in the Tokyo Olympics in the 10-kilometer race and was the bronze medalist at 1,500 meters in the pool. This is his eighth gold in world championship events.

“It was really tough today. I think it was the warmest waters that we’ve had to race in,” Wellbrock said. “I had one year to prepare for this. We did a lot of heat training, and I think that was the key today to me taking the gold.”

Johnson was the silver medalist in this event a year ago at the Paris Olympics. She also took gold in the 2024 Doha worlds and was the bronze medalist two years ago in Fukuoka, Japan.

The open water swimming program had been initially scheduled to open Tuesday.

Event organizers said water-quality samples taken Tuesday afternoon showed “a significant improvement with levels of E. coli falling between the ranges of good and excellent” in regulations set by the governing body World Aquatics.

The Mayo Clinic says “E. coli bacteria normally live in the intestines of healthy people and animals. Most types of E. coli are harmless or cause relatively brief diarrhea.” It said a few strains can cause “severe stomach cramps, bloody diarrhea and vomiting.” Exposure is often from contaminated water that may contain human and animal waste.

The open water events in the Seine River at last year’s Paris Olympics were a constant cause of concern. The Tokyo Olympics also had problems in 2021 because of warm water in a shallow bay and related pollution issues.

Water pollution was a major problem in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where pollution levels were often high on Copacabana Beach, the venue for distance swimming, and in Guanabara Bay, the venue for sailing.

Other open water races in Singapore are set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Water polo competition at the worlds is underway at an indoor venue. The main event of the championships is eight days of swimming competition in the pool, which opens July 27.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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After the 2025 MLB draft, where do the Seattle Mariners’ top prospects fall in an updated rankings? While we won’t see new draft picks ranked by MLB Pipeline until the end of the summer, we can always speculate where they might slot into. For now, here is a projected update of the Mariners’ top 10 […]

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After the 2025 MLB draft, where do the Seattle Mariners’ top prospects fall in an updated rankings?

While we won’t see new draft picks ranked by MLB Pipeline until the end of the summer, we can always speculate where they might slot into. For now, here is a projected update of the Mariners’ top 10 prospects.

Note: Because Cole Young is 12 major league at-bats from losing his rookie eligibility, he is not included in this list.

How the Mariners’ top 10 prospects rank after 2025 MLB Draft

1. Colt Emerson, SS

Ranked by MLB Pipeline as the No. 17 overall prospect and the sixth-best shortstop prospect in the game, Emerson is not going anywhere. He has the highest floor of any Mariners’ prospect. While he may not have the power tool of Lazaro Montes or the ambidextrousness of Jurrangelo Cijintje, Emerson has the broadest set of skills.

2. Lazaro Montes, OF

Montes climbed into the MLB’s top 30 prospects in the latest update on MLB Pipeline, which ranked him No. 28. The 20-year-old has a power tool of 65, and has drawn frequent comparisons to superstar Yordan Alvarez. If Montes can perform anywhere near the level of Alvarez, he will be a mainstay in the Mariners’ lineup for years to come.

3. Felnin Celesten, SS

The prize of Seattle’s 2023 international crop of talent, Celesten is just 19 and already bursting into prospect rankings. MLB pipeline ranks him No. 53, despite a lack of results so far in Single-A Modesto. Celesten has the potential to be a five-tool player and might have higher upside than any other prospect in the organization if he can reach his ceiling.

4. Harry Ford, C

Ford has been playing well in Triple-A for the past two months and has regained his status as one of the top catching prospects in baseball. The former first-round pick is ranked No. 55 on MLB Pipeline and should be in the major leagues soon.

5. Kade Anderson, LHP

The Mariners’ 2025 first-round pick immediately slots in as the fifth-best prospect in the farm system, and he will have the potential to climb rapidly. Anderson was regarded as the top college arm in the 2025 draft and at times resembled a left-handed Paul Skenes at LSU. If there is more to be unlocked in the 21-year-old, the Mariners’ pitching development lab will surely find it.

6. Michael Arroyo, INF

Arroyo has mashed at every level of the minor leagues so far, which has helped him rocket up prospect boards. He put together a .934 OPS in 65 games at High-A Everett this spring, earning a call-up to Double-A Arkansas. There, he has actually hit slightly better with a .953 OPS. Although he is not ranked as highly as other infield prospects, Arroyo continues to play like he should be the team’s top prospect.

7. Jonny Farmelo, OF

Farmelo has not played much in the Mariners’ minor league system because of injuries, so it’s hard to judge where he deserves to be ranked. MLB Pipeline ranks him No. 65 overall, one spot behind Arroyo. The results have been good so far. The 2023 first-rounder had a .819 OPS in 46 games at Modesto last year. This year, the 20-year-old has played 15 games at Everett with a .958 OPS.

8. Ryan Sloan, RHP

The Mariners’ second-rounder in 2024 has looked good in his first season of minor league baseball. The 19-year-old holds a 3.62 ERA across 14 starts at Modesto, with 61 strikeouts against only 11 walks in 54.2 innings.

9. Jurrangelo Cijntje, RHP/LHP

The two-handed pitcher has struggled in the minor leagues this year, but still possesses an incredibly unique ability. He is ranked No. 78 on MLB Pipeline despite a 4.95 ERA in High-A, though he did put on an impressive display in the Futures Game.

10. Nick Becker, SS

Becker was the Mariners’ second-round selection in 2025. The prep shortstop hit .407 over 95 career high-school games and put together a 1.251 OPS. He is seen as an above average hitter and should add pop as he grows into his 6-foot-4 frame.

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PANORAMA: Nike joins Special Olympics Int’l in three-year tie-up; MLB players might play at LA28; Louganis medals auction ends Thursday!

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● Olympic Games 2028: Los Angeles ● Positive comments on the possibility of Major League Baseball players participating in the 2028 Olympic tournament, now scheduled for six days at the start of the Games.

Commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters, “I think it is a opportunity to market the game on a really global stage. Obviously the clubs are going to have to endorse this. I mean, it’s a big deal.”

MLB Players Association chief Tony Clark said, “There’s a lot of work that still needs to be done. We do know players are interested in playing, whether it’s for the Team USA or any number of other teams around the world. … There’s just a lot of conversation that needs to be had sooner rather than later to see how viable this is, but we’re hopeful that we can figure our way through it for the benefit of the game.”

● Special Olympics ● Major announcement from Washington, D.C.-based Special Olympics International, with Nike signing on for a three-year partnership, a first for the apparel and shoe giant, with a focus on promotion of the Sports Olympics Unified Sports project where players with and without intellectual disabilities compete together:

● “This partnership will be delivered through Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools (UCS). The support to UCS will help advance Nike’s commitment to powering the future of youth sport where all youth have access to sport.”

● “The partnership will concentrate on four key communities: Oregon, Berlin, Johannesburg, and Tokyo. Nike will engage its employees as volunteers in all four communities as a key element of the partnership, beginning with employee volunteer opportunities at both Special Olympics Oregon and Special Olympics Berlin Summer Games this July.”

● “Over the course of the three-year partnership, Nike and Special Olympics will collaborate on updating Special Olympics’ Global Unified Sports Coach courses and train-the-trainer materials, leveraging Nike’s three decades of youth sport coaching experience and deep insights with global partners and experts focused on quality coaching that’s inclusive and welcoming to all youth. They will also work to recruit more Unified Sports coaches to more closely reflect community demographics—with the ambition of training and certifying more than 600 additional volunteer coaches across the four key communities.”

Special Olympics International also announced that chief executive Mary Davis (IRL) will retire at the end of the year, concluding 10 years at the head of the organization and 47 years in the Special Olympics movement. David Evangelista (USA) has been named as her successor, currently the Regional President & Managing Director, Europe Eurasia for Special Olympics.

● Memorabilia ● Time is running out for the RR Auction of Olympic memorabilia that will close on 17 July (Thursday). The bidding always get heavy at the end, but multiple items are already with bids of $10,000 or more by Tuesday afternoon:

● $53,148: 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympic torch (8 bids)
● $26,329: 2024 Paris Olympic torch and gold medal set (10)
● $19,976: 1984 Greg Louganis Olympic 3 m diving gold (11)
● $18,782: 1988 Greg Louganis Olympic 10 m diving gold (15)
● $15,520: 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympic torch (16)

A very rare Oslo 1952 Winter Games torch is at $9,889, a triple torch collection (1984 Olympic-1998 Winter-2002 Winter) is at $8,531, a Paris 2024 torch is at $8,480 and Louganis’ 1976 10 m silver medal is at $4,784.

Open bidding is available up to 6 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday (17th), with conditions beyond that time (consult the auction catalog details here).

● Aquatics ● The men’s and women’s 10 km open-water swimming events continue to be in doubt as World Aquatics announced that pollution levels are still too high for competition on Wednesday morning (16th).

So, pending better results, the races have been moved to the afternoon of the 16th, at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., with a scheduled off-day on the 17th. Ticket refunds are available for those not wishing to see the events at the re-scheduled times.

● Athletics ● USA Track & Field, which has shed some of its staff in a budget-saving exercise and seen others depart, hired Running USA Executive Director Jay Holder to be its Chief Content and Communications Officer. Holder had been an independent director of USA Track & Field since January; that director position is now vacant.

Holder was the head of Running USA from November 2023, coming from seven years with the Atlanta Track Club and 10 years in local television producer roles in New York, Charlotte and Syracuse.

The Athletics Integrity Unit announced the suspension of Kenyan marathoner Felix Kirui for “2 years from 8 July 2025 for Presence/Use of a Prohibited Substance (Triamcinolone acetonide). DQ results from 4 May 2025.”

This will nullify his lifetime best 2:10:45 win in the Durban (RSA) Marathon, on 4 May.

● Football ● FIFA announced that the “first ticket draw” for assignments to be able to buy tickets for the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be on 10 September 2025. Those wishing to buy tickets must register on the FIFA ticketing site:

“There will be several distinct ticket sales phases from the start of sales on 10 September 2025, through to the final match on Sunday, 19 July 2026. Each phase may differ in purchasing processes, payment methods and ticket products, and full details on each phase will be released in the coming months.”

Hospitality packages which include tickets, are already on sale.

Sergio Marchi (ARG), the President of FIFPRO, the worldwide football player union, blasted FIFA and the just-concluded FIFA Club World Cup, including:

“FIFPRO cannot fail to point out, with absolute clarity, that this competition hides a dangerous disconnection with the true reality that most footballers around the world are going through.

“What was presented as a global festival of football was nothing more than a fiction staged by FIFA, driven by its president, without dialogue, without sensitivity and without respect for those who sustain the game with their daily efforts. A grandiloquent staging that inevitably recalls the ‘bread and circuses’ of Nero’s Rome, entertainment for the masses while behind the curtain the inequality, precariousness and lack of protection of the real protagonists deepens. …

“The tournament also took place under unacceptable conditions, with matches being played in extremely hot weather and at temperatures that put the physical integrity of the players at risk. This situation must not only be denounced, but must also be strongly condemned. Under no circumstances must this happen again at next year’s FIFA World Cup.”

● Gymnastics ● Belgian star Nina Derwael, 25, the Tokyo 2020 gold medalist on the Uneven Bars, announced her retirement, effective immediately. Across eight years, she won four World Championships medals (2-0-2) all on the Uneven Bars and five European Championships medals (4-1-0), including the Uneven Bars and Balance Beam at the 2025 Euros in Germany.

“I have achieved everything I wanted to. I proved what I was capable of. Recently, I have increasingly found myself asking: ‘Hasn’t it been enough? Is it worth risking my body?’ Ultimately, I have to conclude that it has been enough.”

● Swimming ● Three brilliant Virginia stars – Olympians all – Kate Douglass, Alex and Gretchen Walsh announced the “Olympic Endowment Scholarship for Women’s Swimming Fund,” to also receive a 50% match from the Virginia Athletics Foundation to create a scholarship for a women’s swimmer at the school.

● Water Polo ● At the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, the U.S. women’s national team completed a 3-0 group stage with a 26-3 rout of Argentina and finished with a 52-19 goals-against total.

Now into the quarters (19th), the Americans will face the winner of the Japan (1-2) vs. Great Britain (2-1) match on the 17th. Australia, Hungary and Spain – all 3-0 – won the other groups.

● Wrestling ● The final spot on the U.S. men’s Freestyle team for the 2025 World Championships was filled on Monday, as Bishop McCort (Johnstown, Pa.) High School senior (and Oklahoma State commit) Jax Forrest defeated 2023 World Champion Vito Arujau in the men’s 61 kg class, 4-3, 7-2.

It will be Forrest’s first seniors Worlds team; he won a Worlds U-17 55 kg silver in 2022.

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Alligator Alcatraz light pollution; Uthmeier womens sports

Environmental groups worry Everglades National Park could lose important Dark Sky status because of “Alligator Alcatraz,” and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier speaks at event to “protect” women’s sports. Previous Episode: Environmental groups worry Everglades National Park’s Dark Sky status could end Gov. Ron DeSantis focused on everglades restoration Tuesday with the opening of the […]

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Environmental groups worry Everglades National Park’s Dark Sky status could end

Gov. Ron DeSantis focused on everglades restoration Tuesday with the opening of the Caloosahatchee reservoir.

While the governor is touting his restoration work in the everglades, he is facing several lawsuits regarding his treatment of the environment with the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz.”

The state and President Donald Trump’s administration say the camp won’t impact the nearby environment. On the other hand, some environmentalists disagree, and they’re even suing over it.

The Florida Everglades are as important as they are sensitive.

That’s a fact apparently not lost Tuesday on DeSantis.

“It provides fresh water to Florida Bay as well as clean drinking water, for more than 8 million Floridians,” DeSantis said. “And it supplies irrigation for the state’s agriculture. So this was something that had been neglected for too long. We need to take the bull by the horns, and we needed to get it done.”

In part — that’s why environmentalist oppose “Alligator Alcatraz.” The site is driving traffic, plus thousands into the area.

“This puts at risk decades and millions, if not billions of dollars invested into Everglades restoration since the project began,” Organizing Representative at Sierra Club Florida Chapter Marcelo Balladares said.

Another big concern is light pollution. Everglades National Park is Dark Sky designated — meaning light pollution there is minimal.

In a recent court filing, environmental groups suing the state say the night sky over Big Cypress National Preserve now glows with the lights of “Alligator Alcatraz.”

“You have a very clear view of the night sky. One of the darkest in the eastern United States, and that puts the designation at risk,” Balladares said.

For context, the state says the new detention camp didn’t involve any additional development.

Nonetheless, some environmentalists say that even just the increases in population and traffic are enough in itself to disturb the environment.

2019 file photo of sunrise in the Florida Everglades (AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

Uthmeier hosts event discussing fairness in women’s sports

Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier was in Orlando Tuesday, holding an event focused on what he called fairness in women’s sports. He urged U.S. Masters Swimming, a Sarasota-based nonprofit, to certify that it will not let transgender swimmers compete against women.

“I just think about women that go through the training, the sacrifice. If you’re going to be a good competitor, it takes discipline, a good diet, a healthy lifestyle, good sleeping habits, sacrificing time away from fun and friends,” Uthmeier said. “I can just imagine someone getting into a swimming lane and looking next to them and seeing a big man. Or running up to a soccer ball and looking up and it’s a guy running towards them.”

It should be noted that the number of transgender individuals competing in women’s sports is believed to be quite low.

For example, in December, the president of the NCAA testified before congress that he was aware of fewer than 10 transgender athletes competing in competitive collegiate athletics out of more than 510,000 athletes.

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2025 World Aquatics Championships: All results, scores

The 2025 World Aquatics Championships take place in Singapore from 11 July-3 August, with Paris 2024 Olympic champions aplenty on show. Swimming sensations Leon Marchand, Summer McIntosh, and Katie Ledecky, will return to international competition, while 10km open water world champion Kristof Rasovszky will hope to defend his title. The People’s Republic of China are […]

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The 2025 World Aquatics Championships take place in Singapore from 11 July-3 August, with Paris 2024 Olympic champions aplenty on show.

Swimming sensations Leon Marchand, Summer McIntosh, and Katie Ledecky, will return to international competition, while 10km open water world champion Kristof Rasovszky will hope to defend his title.

The People’s Republic of China are expected to dominate diving and artistic swimming, while Olympic men’s and women’s champions, Serbia and Spain, will be the ones to watch in water polo.

Scroll down for the results, and all the medal winners, from swimming, marathon swimming, diving, water polo, and artistic swimming at Singapore 2025.

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