Poppy Maskill breaks personal document to win world S14 100m butterfly

Great Britain’s Poppy Maskill broke her personal world document to win the ladies’s S14 100m butterfly on the ultimate day of the World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore.

The 20-year-old Cheshire swimmer gained in a single minute 2.58 seconds, reducing the mark of 1:03.00 she set in successful Paralympic gold in Paris final 12 months.

Britain’s Olivia Newman-Baronius additionally dipped underneath the earlier document, ending lower than two-tenths of a second behind her team-mate to assert silver.

There was additionally a gold medal for Britain’s Will Ellard within the males’s occasion of the identical self-discipline, whereas Brock Whiston claimed silver within the girls’s SB8 100m breaststroke.

The 4 medals took Britain’s tally as much as 40 for the championships – 15 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze – as they completed fifth within the closing medal desk.

“I’m really happy with that,” mentioned Maskill, after following up on the Paralympic success she had as a teen in a race with three Britons within the prime 4, as Louise Fiddes completed simply exterior the rostrum locations.

“To get the world record again was amazing and just an unreal feeling.

“I feel I’ve completed an excellent job this week being the primary 12 months [in the cycle] again after Paris. I’ll return and have a look at all of the little issues I can enhance with my coach Nick [Thompson] and may hopefully come again for extra.”

Ellard, 19, beat Brazilian world record holder Gabriel Bandiera in a blanket finish to win the men’s S14 100m butterfly.

Whiston, 28, claimed her fourth medal of the championships, however was as soon as once more unable to edge out Spain’s Paralympic champion Anastasiy Dmytriv Dmytriv within the girls’s SB8 100m breaststroke, after additionally ending second to her on the Paris Games.