Leon Marchand and Kate Douglass were crowned overall champions as the World Cup wrapped up in Singapore.
Marchand won the 400IM on the final day to claim the triple crown following victories in Shanghai and Incheon as he swept the IM events.
That saw him finish top of the overall rankings with 175.7pts followed by Noè Ponti (171.9pts) and Duncan Scott (167.8).
Douglass finished her programme with an American record of 50.82 in the 100 free as she claimed her 10th win of the World Cup tour.
She finished with 178.5, 0.1 ahead of teammate Regan Smith who accumulated a total of 178.4 following her second world record in as many days as she downed Kaylee McKeown’s 2020 standard in 1:58.83. Siobhan Haughey was third with 160.7.
Leon Marchand has dominated the IM and came into the final day of the World Cup tour having rewritten the world and European record books.
The four-time Olympic champion had already claimed the triple crown in the 100 and 200IM and was one win away from the treble in the longest race.
The Frenchman – wearing a cap bearing the name of Florent Manaudou – shot off from the start with only Alberto Razzetti for company before extending his lead on the backstroke leg.
He picked up the tempo from the 250m mark and came home in 3:58.45 to claim his third triple crown and the overall title with 175.7pts.
Razzetti was second in 4:00.59 with Trenton Julian of the USA third in 4:04.46.
In a poolside interview with World Aquatics, Marchand said: “It’s so cool, I love this. That was a pretty good race: I think I should have done better on the freestyle at the end but it’s a pretty good time so I am happy with it. Three weeks of racing and I’m really tired so that’s cool.”
Marchand – who will compete at next month’s short-course worlds in Budapest – said of his tour debut: “It was awesome. Just travelling around, racing overseas, meeting new people, racing in front of a crazy crowd every time. It’s been really cool.”
Katie Grimes dominated to win in 8:14.36 for her third victory in Singapore following the 400 free and 400IM.
Moesha Johnson – the Paris 2024 open water silver medallist competing a week after winning the Open Water World Cup leg in Hong Kong – held off a late charge from Claire Weinstein as the pair finished in 8:18.24 and 8:18.41.
Laura Lahtinen was just one win away from claiming the triple crown and all the action came in the three lanes in the centre of the pool.
Mizuki Hirai of Japan led at the first turn with Louise Hansson, the 2022 European champion, going ahead at halfway.
The Swede retained the lead at the head of the field by 0.03 from Hirai with Lahtinen in third as 0.19 separated the trio.
Hansson pulled away to touch in 55.46 ahead of Hirai (55.81) and Lahtinen (55.96).
Just nine hours and 11 minutes after smashing his world record in 21.50 in prelims, Noè Ponti took to the blocks once more.
The Swiss athlete turned in 9.84 – 0.02 inside world record pace – before coming home in 21.64, the second-fastest time in history giving him the four swiftest all-time
It earned Ponti his second triple crown following his 100 fly treble.
Nyls Korstanje lowered his Dutch mark in 21.74 to move second all-time with Teong Tzen Wei third in 22.11.
Pieter Coetze stepped up for his final race of the World Cup tour on the brink of the triple crown following his 200 back treble.
The South African led throughout to come home in 49.36, 0.01 off the African record he set at the opening leg in Shanghai.
Thomas Ceccon of Italy (49.68) and Poland’s Kacper Stokowski (49.87) took second and third.
Tang Qianting swam away on the second 25 to take the win in 28.87 and in the process claim her second triple crown following her 100m treble.
Benedetta Pilato was second in 29.42 with Alina Zmushka third in 29.79 in a repeat of the Incheon podium.
There was drama all the way here as Qin Haiyang appeared to have claimed a sensational win despite trailing Caspar Corbeau for 195m.
The Chinese initially clocked a time of 2:02.29 for victory by 0.04 over the Dutchman. However, no sooner had the crowd celebrated Qin’s apparent win when DSQ flashed up by his name on the scoreboard.
Corbeau was promoted to first in 2:02.33 followed by Joshua Yong (2:02.85) and Ilya Shymanovich (2:03.90).
Siobhan Haughey was one win away from adding the 100 free triple crown to her 200 treble.
Kate Douglass however shot off from the start with Haughey unable to match her. The American was ahead throughout and turned at 75 with a 0.36 lead which she extended on the final 25 to touch in 50.82, an American record.
Haughey was second 51.56 with Kasia Wasick third in 52.04.
Duncan Scott was one win away from the triple crown and the eight-time Olympic medallist went out like a rocket down the first 25.
Edward Somerville and Pan Zhanle moved past the Briton on the second 25 with the Australian 0.35 inside Paul Biedermann’s world record pace.
Scott regained the lead by the 75m mark and reached halfway 0.46 inside the WR and with 50m to go he was still 0.39 inside.
Biedermann set the WR of 1:39.37 back in the supersuited era of 2009 and the line started to get away from Scott who came home in 1:39.83, the fifth-swiftest performance all-time. With that Scott lowered his British and Commonwealth records that had stood at 1:40.25 from the ISL final in December 2020.
Marchand was second in 1:40.91 with Pan Zhanle third in 1:41.59.
In the final race of the World Cup 2024, Yu Yiting led throughout to win in 2:03.99 ahead of Mary-Sophie Harvey (2:04.82) and Beata Nelson (2:05.00).
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