Australia’s Alexandria Perkins wins bronze in world 100m butterfly last | Swimming

Alexandria Perkins has nabbed a bronze medal for Australia on day two of the swimming world championships in Singapore whereas Canadian famous person Summer McIntosh continued her profitable methods and the virus-stricken US lastly broke their gold medal duck.

Perkins produced a powerful end to snare third place in a hotly contested girls’s 100m butterfly last in Singapore on Monday evening.

World record-holder Gretchen Walsh began the race as the most well liked of favourites, however the large query was whether or not she had escaped the gastro carnage that has swept by way of the US camp.

The widespread illness resulted within the highly effective US group ending the opening evening and not using a gold medal, with Australia beating them in each the boys’s and girls’s 4×100m freestyle relays.

Walsh put any illness doubts to relaxation on Monday evening with a strong 54.73-second swim that gave the 22-year-old a maiden world championship title and introduced the US its first gold of the meet.

The American now owns the eight quickest instances within the 100m butterfly, together with her newest effort the second better of all time.

Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk (55.84) completed second, whereas Perkins got here dwelling quick to nab bronze in a time of 56.33.

“I can’t be happier with that,” an elated Perkins mentioned. “It was a new experience being in this final tonight.

“I missed out last year at the Olympics, so I’m just really proud of myself for handling my nerves against someone like Gretchen. She’s just incredible. She did a phenomenal job.”

In what served as an entree to Tuesday evening’s last, Australian Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown completed second to American arch rival Regan Smith within the girls’s 100m backstroke semi-final.

McIntosh, who’s aiming for 5 particular person gold medals at this championships, made it two from two on Monday evening.

The 18-year-old Canadian received the 400m girls’s freestyle on Sunday, and backed it up with victory within the 200m particular person medley on Monday evening.

McIntosh received the medley in a time of two:06.69, warding off a problem from Alex Walsh (2:08.58) during which they had been nearly even heading into the final 50m.

In the boys’s 200m freestyle, Australian Flynn Southam completed final in his semi-final warmth to overlook the ultimate.

China’s Qin Halyang received his fourth world championships gold medal after coming from behind to defeat Italian Nicolo Martinenghi within the males’s 100m breaststroke last.

Frenchman Maxime Grousset (22.48) edged Switzerland’s Noe Ponti (22.51) in a hotly contested 50m males’s butterfly last.

Australia’s 16-year-old rising star, Sienna Toohey, swam a time of 1:07.24 within the 100m breaststroke heats however missed out on a semi-final berth by 0.24 of a second.

Toohey was in the identical warmth as triple Olympian and triple world record-holder Lily King, who scraped into the semis with a time of 1:06.93.

“That was the fastest heat swim I have ever done,” Toohey mentioned.

“I knew I was racing Lily King but I was trying to pretend it wasn’t her because I didn’t want to get freaked out. But it was pretty cool.”