Australia’s Alexandria Perkins Wins Bronze In World 100m Butterfly Final

Alexandria Perkins has nabbed a bronze badge for Australia connected time 2 of nan swimming world championships successful Singapore while Canadian superstar Summer McIntosh continued her winning ways and nan virus-stricken US yet collapsed their golden badge duck.

Perkins produced a beardown decorativeness to snare 3rd spot successful a hotly contested women’s 100m butterfly last successful Singapore connected Monday night.

World-record holder Gretchen Walsh started nan title arsenic nan hottest of favourites, but nan large mobility was whether she had escaped nan gastro carnage that has swept done nan US camp.

The wide sickness resulted successful nan powerful US squad ending nan opening nighttime without a golden medal, pinch Australia beating them successful some nan men’s and women’s 4x100m freestyle relays.

Walsh put immoderate sickness doubts to remainder connected Monday nighttime pinch a powerful 54.73-second aquatics that gave nan 22-year-old a maiden world title title and brought nan US its first golden of nan meet.

The American now owns nan 8 fastest times successful nan 100m butterfly, pinch her latest effort nan 2nd champion of each time.

Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk (55.84) vanished second, while Perkins came location accelerated to nab bronze successful a clip of 56.33.

“I can’t beryllium happier pinch that,” an elated Perkins said. “It was a caller acquisition being successful this last tonight.

“I missed retired past twelvemonth astatine nan Olympics, truthful I’m conscionable really proud of myself for handling my nerves against personification for illustration Gretchen. She’s conscionable incredible. She did a phenomenal job.”

In what served arsenic an entree to Tuesday night’s final, Australian Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown vanished 2nd to American arch rival Regan Smith successful nan women’s 100m backstroke semi-final.

McIntosh, who is aiming for 5 individual golden medals astatine this championships, made it 2 from 2 connected Monday night.

The 18-year-old Canadian won nan 400m women’s freestyle connected Sunday, and backed it up pinch triumph successful nan 200m individual medley connected Monday night.

McIntosh won nan medley successful a clip of 2:06.69, fending disconnected a situation from Alex Walsh (2:08.58) successful which they were almost moreover heading into nan past 50m.

In nan men’s 200m freestyle, Australian Flynn Southam vanished past successful his semi-final power to miss nan final.

China’s Qin Halyang won his 4th world championships golden badge aft coming from down to conclusion Italian Nicolo Martinenghi successful nan men’s 100m breaststroke final.

Frenchman Maxime Grousset (22.48) edged Switzerland’s Noe Ponti (22.51) successful a hotly-contested 50m men’s butterfly final.

Australia’s 16-year-old rising star, Sienna Toohey, swam a clip of 1:07.24 successful nan 100m breaststroke heats but missed retired connected a semi-final berth by 0.24 of a second.

Toohey was successful nan aforesaid power arsenic triple Olympian and triple world grounds holder Lily King, who scraped into nan semis pinch a clip of 1:06.93.

“That was nan fastest power aquatics I person ever done,” Toohey said.

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