Sates won the men's 400m medley by a wide margin to start the day in a time of 4min 01.98sec, and fellow teenagers Hubert Kos of Hungary and Marius Toscan of Switzerland claimed the silver and bronze medals respectively.

He followed up with a victory in the 200m freestyle with a world junior record of 1:40.65, beating Australian Kyle Chalmers and Lithuanian Danas Rapsys to the gold.

Swiss swimmer Maria Ugolkova won the women's 200m medley by more than a second in a time of 2:08.01, as Leah Hayes of the United States and Czech Republic's Kristyna Horska completed the podium.

The US claimed a one-two in the women's 800m freestyle, as Cavan Gormsen touched the wall in 8:22.16 in front of her compatriot Paige Kuwata.

Just over a second behind Kuwata was Dutch swimmer Imani de Jong for the bronze medal.

Canadian world and Olympic champion Maggie MacNeil was the winner in the women's 100m butterfly, overtaking Sweden's Louise Hansson in the second half of the race to win in 55.30sec.

Ugolkova took the bronze, holding off American swimmer Linnea Mack.

Tom Shields of the US claimed the victory in the men's 50m butterfly in 22.09, a tenth in front of Hungarian Szebasztián Szabó, and South African Chad Le Clos - who holds the all-time World Cup victories record with 146 - won bronze.

Kira Toussaint of The Netherlands won gold in the women's 200m backstroke, clocking a time of 2:03.44.

American Jojo Ramey finished marginally ahead of Kylie Masse of Canada for the silver.

Germany finished first and second in the men's 100m backstroke, with Christian Diener leading home Ole Braunschweig in 50.32, as Yakov Toumarkin of Israel claimed bronze.

Anastasia Gorbenko of Israel won the women's 50m breaststroke in 29.61, and the US' Lydia Jacoby and Kim Busch of The Netherlands completed the podium.

Arno Kamminga of The Netherlands won by more than three seconds in the men's 200m breaststroke in a time of 2:01.92 for gold, far in front of the German silver and bronze medallists Marco Koch and Fabian Schwingenschlogl.

Australia's most-decorated Olympian Emma McKeon won the women's 100m freestyle in 50.96, beating her team mate Madison Wilson.

Michelle Coleman of Sweden claimed bronze.

Ending the day, the German team of Diener, Schwingenschlogl, Angelina Kohler and Annika Bruhn won the mixed 4x50m medley relay in 1:39.17; beating the American team of Quintin McCarty, Zhier Fan, Tess Howley and Kristina Paegle to gold.

The Americans set a new junior world record for silver, with South Africa claiming bronze.