{"id":578492,"date":"2024-02-18T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=578492"},"modified":"2024-02-18T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:49:38","slug":"world-championships-day-8-finals-great-britains-freya-colbert-rallies-down-stretch-for-400-im-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-8-finals-great-britains-freya-colbert-rallies-down-stretch-for-400-im-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships, Day 8 Finals: Great Britain’s Freya Colbert Rallies Down Stretch for 400 IM Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Championships, Day 8 Finals: Great Britain’s Freya Colbert Rallies Down Stretch for 400 IM Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahead of the final of the women’s 400-meter individual medley at the World Championships, it was evident a door was open for the eight finalists in Doha. The final was missing all three medalists from last summer’s World Championships in Fukuoka – Canadian Summer McIntosh<\/strong>, American Katie Grimes<\/strong> and Australian Jenna Forrester\u00a0<\/strong>– and no athlete used prelims to make a statement to the rest of the field.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it was Great Britain’s Freya Colbert<\/strong> who walked away with the gold medal, and the first world title of her career.<\/p>\n

Sitting in fourth place heading into the freestyle leg and in third with a length remaining, Colbert was able to track down Israel’s Anastasia Gorbenko<\/strong> and Italy’s Sara Franceschi<\/strong> to earn the biggest win of her career. Colbert finished in a time of 4:37.14, thanks to a final 50 freestyle of 31.31. That flurry enabled Colbert to get by Gorbenko, who picked up the silver medal in 4:37.36. Another half-second back for bronze was Franceschi (4:37.86).<\/p>\n

Colbert was the bronze medalist in the 400 medley at the 2022 European Championships and earlier this week helped Great Britain to the silver medal in the 800 freestyle relay.<\/p>\n

The winning time was the slowest in the event at the World Championships since 1994 in Rome, when China’s Dai Guohong was the titlist in 4:39.14.<\/p>\n

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