Mollie O’Callaghan has taken her week’s particular person haul of world swimming championship medals to six nonetheless the Dolphins well-known person couldn’t somewhat ship Australia one closing golden flourish in Budapest.
Triple champion O’Callaghan produced one last searing freestyle leg to full this system on Saturday nonetheless the Australian ladies’s 4x100m medley crew correct passed over out on victory, no longer as a lot as half a 2d behind a quartet from the all-conquering US crew.
Earlier at the Duna Enviornment, Meg Harris had produced a excellent halt in the 50m freestyle, clocking 24.38 seconds to grab a tie for third and elevate Australia’s last particular person medal of the week.
Then after a podium arrive-proceed away out from the males’s fourth-placed 4x100m medley outfit, the an analogous ladies’s quartet of Kaylee McKeown, Jenna Strauch, Brianna Throssell and O’Callaghan took silver in 3 minutes 54.25 seconds.
It turned into once the crew’s 17th medal of the week as a brand novel-glance Dolphins, without some of Australia’s excellent Olympic names, performed with six gold, nine silver and two bronze.
They performed third in the medal table behind Italy, who struck double gold on the closing day to pick their tally to seven, and the Americans, who contain been in a league of their own, gathering 17 gold amongst a story-breaking series of 45 medals in all.
O’Callaghan turned into once the undoubted well-known person of Australia’s week in Hungary, the Queensland teen ending up with three golds — in the 100m free, ladies’s 4x100m free and the mixed 4x100m free — and three silvers in the 200m free, ladies’s 4x200m free and now the ladies’s medley relay.
However there shall be disappointment that they couldn’t somewhat halt up with a seventh gold after qualifying as fastest from the heats.
World 100m story holder McKeown, who’d taken the particular person 200m title in Budapest, had been expected to present the Olympic champions a flying originate on the opening backstroke leg nonetheless performed only third in 58.77, manner off her world sign of 57.45.
Strauch, silver medallist in the 200m breaststroke, and butterfly swimmer Throssell, with three relay medals to her title already in Budapest, fought to salvage the Dolphins help in it.
However O’Callaghan turned into once level-headed left a 2d down as she tackled the Americans’ freestyle anchor Claire Curzan.
As in her particular person 100m closing, the 18-twelve months-musty once more produced a turbo-charged halt over the last 25 metres nonetheless turned into once left 0.47 behind because the American foursome of Regan Smith, Lilly King, Torri Huske and Curzan loved toppling the Tokyo winners.
“Delivery air smoke as we fancy to notify in the usa,” King grinned.
“We with out a doubt wished to build in an correct time and salvage that gold help from last summer.”
In the 50m free, Albury’s Harris, a member of the Aussies’ Olympic-winning 4x100m free quartet, earned her first particular person world medal in dramatic model.
In a traumatic last-ditch splash for the wall, the 20-twelve months-musty couldn’t be damage up from fellow bronze medallist American Erika Brown.
They performed level behind Poland’s silver medallist Katarzyna Wasick (24.18) and the mighty Swede Sarah Sjostrom, who took an improbable 19th particular person world medal — correct one behind the all-time story holder, Michael Phelps.
AAP