BRITAIN ADD TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ACCOUNT
Britain closed their account at the 1st FINA World Youth
Championships in Rio with two more medals on the final day
to take their tally from the small team of seven to four podium
finishes.
Jemma Lowe, with a silver on day one, got the British team
off to a good start when she added a bronze to her collection
after a close finish saw her touched out into third place
in the 100m Butterfly.
The Stockton teenager finished in 1:00.31 behind Keri-Leigh
Shaw of South Africa in 1:00.25 and gold went to Italy's Ilaria
Bainchi in 59.57.
The British quartet of Davies, Alex Warren (University of
Bath), Lowe and Rachael George (Hatfield) took the bronze
in the 4x100m Medley Relay in a time of 4:13.15. Russia took
the gold in 4:10.88 and South Africa won the silver in 4:11.39.
Another British medallist at the six-day meet, Bexley's Xavier
Mohammed, was just outside a podium place in the 200m Backstroke
when he finished fourth in a time of 2:03.41.
Gold went to American Cory Chitwood in 2:00.68, Damiano Lestingi
was second in 2:00.84 and Scott Flowers of he U.S. took the
bronze in 2:01.66.
Swim Swansea's Georgia Davies finished fifth in the final
of the 50m Backstroke in a time of 29.95. Gold went to Yanxin
Zhou of China in 29.49.
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