He had beaten Scott to Olympic gold in Tokyo and looked on track to do the same again as he turned first after 100m. Home favourite Dean only contributed to the excitement, jumping up and down beside his blocks and slapping himself until his chest was red. The Sandwell crowd had already been warmed up by Proud's early gold, but the volume peaked before the eagerly anticipated men's 200m freestyle final. Scott hits right note to spark singalong.In the men's equivalent, Lewis Burras, Jacob Whittle, James Guy and Dean narrowly lost out to Australia too. The hosts won a total of seven medals in the pool on Saturday as Brodie Williams took men's 100m backstroke silver and both relay teams claimed silver.įreya Anderson, Isabella Hindley, Abbie Wood and Anna Hopkin finished behind Australia in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay. She finished second behind Australia's Katja Dedekind, who set a new world record of 26.56 seconds, bettering the old one by 0.11 seconds. Peaty's compatriot Imogen Clark took 50m breaststroke silver before Scotland's Stephen Clegg won silver in the 50m freestyle S13.Įngland's Hannah Russell took silver in the Para-swimming too. English fans in Birmingham had already been treated to a home gold earlier on Saturday as Ben Proud powered to 50m butterfly victory.Īdam Peaty, back from a broken foot, qualified fastest for the men's 100m breaststroke final in 59.02 seconds.
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