Great Britain’s impressive performance at the World Swimming Championships in Shanghai drew to a close with two more medals.   Liam Tancock’s dominant swim in the 50m backstroke secured him the team’s third gold, while Hannah Miley swam a great 400m individual medley to win silver with a time of 4:34. 22.
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After the excitement in Shanghai earlier in the week, when several of Britain’s women swimmers made it into the finals of their events, it was 19-year old Ellen Gandy who claimed a medal, winning silver for her performance in the 200m butterfly, and only narrowly missing out on gold.
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Gemma Spofforth moved on from the disappointment of having her 100 metres backstroke title defence destroyed by sickness to book a 50m semi-final spot at the World Championships in Shanghai. Spofforth claimed an emotional gold, which she dedicated to her late mother, at the last World Championships in Rome two years ago.
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Jo Jackson and Rebecca Adlington failed to reach the semi-finals of the 200 metres freestyle in a flat Tuesday morning session for Great Britain at the World Championships in Shanghai.
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The last time the public saw Fran Halsall the girl tipped to be one of the big, multi-medal-winning stars of London 2012 appeared as white as a ghost, wan, sunken-eyed and close - very close - to throwing up.
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Rebecca Adlington will be spending much of the next few days beside a swimming pool in Crete amongst other tourists lapping up the holiday sun and reminding herself that this time last year she was winning her second Olympic gold medal in Beijing, and smashing a 19-year-old world record in the process in the women's...
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