06-08-15 world swimming championship

FINA World Championships 2015, Kazan

Wednesday, 5 August, 2015

A GREAT BRITTISH DAY IN THE POOL

There have been a few medals in the pool yesterday for British athletes first in the 4X100 metre mixed  relay they won gold with a time of 3 minutes 41.71 seconds  just ahead of the USA with a time of 3 minutes 43.27 seconds   in second place and Germany in third place with a time of 3 minutes 44.13 seconds   

The hero of this meets is understood to be Adam Peaty as he won the 50 metre breaststroke for Great Britain with a time of 26.51 seconds in second place was Cameron Van Der Burgh from South Africa with a time of 26.66 seconds and in third place was Kevin Cordes from the USA with a time of 26.86 seconds  

Another British medal came in the high dive yesterday as Britain Gary Hunt won gold of the 27 metre board in silver position was Mexican Bernal Paredes and Russian  Artem Silchenko won the bronze medal

In the Men's 800m Freestyle Yang Sun won gold with a time of 7minutes 39.96 seconds in silver position was Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri with a time of 7 minutes 40.81 seconds and in third position Mack Horton from Australia with a time of 7 minutes 44.02 seconds

In the only Women's  final of the day the 200m Freestyle went to Katie Ledecky from the USA with a time of 1min 55.16secsin silver position was Federica Pellegrini from  Italy with a time of  1minute 55.32 seconds and in third was Missy Franklin from the USA with a time of  1: minute 5.49 seconds