{"id":33362,"date":"2025-08-10T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/world-aquatics-championships-2025-leon-marchand-breaks-200m-medley-world-record-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:19:18","slug":"world-aquatics-championships-2025-leon-marchand-breaks-200m-medley-world-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/world-aquatics-championships-2025-leon-marchand-breaks-200m-medley-world-record-2\/","title":{"rendered":"World Aquatics Championships 2025: Leon Marchand breaks 200m medley world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">French sensation Leon Marchand broke the men&#8217;s 200m medley world record in winning his semi-final at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old won in one minute 52.69 seconds to beat the previous best of 1:54.00 set by Ryan Lochte in 2011 as he qualified for the final in style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I actually can&#8217;t really believe it right now,&#8221; said Marchand, who won four gold medals at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I knew I was going to get close to my personal best because I felt really good today and the preparation has been pretty good so I was excited to race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But, 1:52 is unbelievable for me.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/swimming\/articles\/ckgd0ezrn60o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French sensation Leon Marchand broke the men&#8217;s 200m medley world record in winning his semi-final at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. The 23-year-old won in one minute 52.69 seconds to beat the previous best of 1:54.00 set by Ryan Lochte in 2011 as he qualified for the final in style. &#8220;I actually can&#8217;t really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33364,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33362\/revisions\/33364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}