Grace Harvey gained gold within the girls’s SB5 100m breaststroke as Nice Britain added an additional six medals to their tally on the World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore.
Harvey, 27, completed almost 4 seconds forward of Ukraine’s Anna Hontar to win in a single minute 42.88 seconds and reclaim the title she final gained in 2022.
It was Nice Britain’s eleventh gold of the Championships.
“It was such an thrilling race with Anna going out quick and that is nice competitors for the SB5 class, however to deliver dwelling the win, I am past completely happy,” stated Harvey.
“I have been coaching breaststroke all season and this was the one, my baby, my child, so I gave it every part at present and could not have put one other stroke in. That was the right race for me.”
Alice Tai, who gained 4 golds within the competitors’s first 4 days, added a silver medal to her assortment alongside Bruce Dee, Roan Brennan, and Faye Rogers within the combined 4x100m medley.
They set a British file of 4:31.65 as they completed behind Spain.
Earlier on day 5, Rogers collected a person silver within the girls’s S10 100m butterfly, ending simply three-hundredths of a second behind Turkey’s Defne Kurt.
Elsewhere, Rhys Darbey broke the previous world file mark as he completed second behind Brazil’s Gabriel Bandeira within the males’s SM14 200m particular person medley. His time of two:05.84 is a European file.
“It is good to go beneath that outdated world file mark, and for 2 of us to go beneath it’s unbelievable,” Darbey stated.
Within the girls’s SM14 200m particular person medley, Olivia Newman-Baronius took silver and Bethany Firth bronze, with team-mate Poppy Maskill in fourth place.
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