Mollie O’Callaghan wins 200m freestyle gold at swimming world championships in Singapore

Australian swimmer Mollie O’Callaghan’s golden contact has continued with an emotional victory on the world championships in Singapore.

O’Callaghan collected gold within the ladies’s 200m freestyle on a Wednesday night time on the worlds when Australia’s fortunes fluctuated.

The victory means the 21-year-old has drawn degree with Grant Hackett on 10 world titles, and is one off equalling Ian Thorpe. She nonetheless has the 100m and two relays to come back.

Meanwhile, stalwart Kyle Chalmers laid down an ominous marker for the boys’s 100m freestyle ultimate and rookie Harrison Turner received bronze within the males’s 200m butterfly — Australia’s first medal within the occasion at a world titles.

But compatriot Sam Short’s torrid occasions at main meets continued when the gold medal fancy was pressured to withdraw from the boys’s 800m freestyle ultimate due to gastro sickness.

He suspects meals poisoning from lunch on the staff lodge, however Swimming Australia mentioned the supply had but to be recognized.

Short’s Olympics final 12 months had been cruelled by sickness and damage and the 21-year-old hoped his fortunes had modified in Singapore after successful silver in within the 400m freestyle on the opening night time of the titles.

His disappointment at not making the blocks was in stark distinction to O’Callaghan’s pleasure at her 200m freestyle gold.

O’Callaghan triumphed in a single minute and 53.48 seconds with teammate Jamie Perkins (1:56.55) ending seventh.

“Heading into this week has been a whirlwind,” O’Callaghan mentioned.

“Having a big long break after the Olympics was well needed and then coming back from injury myself, I am so thankful to have an amazing coach [Dean Boxall] to guide me through this difficult time.

“I do know it has been exhausting for lots of people to come back again after the Olympics however I’m very grateful to have a great assist from the staff to get me via this mentally and bodily.”

Chalmers was fourth fastest into Thursday night’s 100m freestyle medal race.

The 27-year-old clocked 47.36 seconds in his semi-final — quicker than his 2016 Olympic gold medal swim and also faster than his silver medal effort at last year’s Olympics. American Jack Alexy (46.81) topped semifinal times.

And the Dolphins’ medal tally obtained an sudden increase when 21-year-old Turner snared bronze within the males’s 200m butterfly.

The 21-year-old former cross country athlete snuck into the final in lane eight and then produced an Australian record of 1:54.17 in a race won by American Luca Urlando (1:51.87).

“I regarded up on the board and I needed to look there for a bit, I used to be like: ‘Does it say third?’,” Turner mentioned.

“It’s simply unreal.”

Australia’s mixed 4x100m medley team of Kaylee McKeown, Nash Wilkes, Matt Temple and Milla Jansen finished fifth.

Also on Wednesday night, French megastar Leon Marchand broke the men’s 200m medley world record.

Marchand clocked 1:52.69 in a semifinal, well inside American Ryan Lochte’s previous benchmark of 1:54.00 set in 2011.

Meanwhile at the diving world titles held concurrently in Singapore, Australian duo Cassiel Rousseau and Maddison Keeney won silver in the mixed 3m springboard synchro on Wednesday night.

The silver was Keeney’s second medal of the championships after winning 1m springboard gold last Saturday.

AAP