With supreme risk displays, Mollie O'Callaghan and Zac Stubblety-Cook achieved another golden day for Australia at the world swimming championships in Budapest.
O'Callaghan overcame a pre-race panic to take the 100m freestyle with an extraordinary late burst on Thursday before Stubblety-Cook appeared to toy with her 200m breaststroke opponents to storm in and add the world title. to the Olympic gold he won last year's event.
Her wins from behind doubled Australia's gold tally to four. At the same time, Jenna Strauch in the women's 200m breaststroke and the men's 4×200m freestyle quartet of Elijah Winnington, Zac Incerti, Sam Short and Mack Horton also added silver.
Queenslander O'Callaghan, 18, swept the final 10m spectacularly to claim his first individual overall gold and fourth championships medal.
Once again, the Brisbane teenager won the hard way, becoming sixth after the first 50m, 0.61 behind Sjostrom. But just like in Wednesday's semi-final, when he produced the fastest second half of a 100m freestyle race ever recorded (26.43 seconds), O'Callaghan again timed his run to perfection, clocking 26.71 for the last 50.
Even with 20m to go, she might miss the opportunity before her jet-powered finish saw her add to the women's 4x100m freestyle gold she won on opening day and her 200m freestyle and 4x200 relay. m of silver
"Shocking, it was bad, worst ever," O'Callaghan said, reflecting on his familiar pre-race nerves. "He was panicking in the warm-up. He had a little cramp in his leg. I felt dizzy and beside myself in the warm-up, and I started to feel a bit panicked."
However, once in the water, she was worthless as she became the fifth Australian woman to win the blue belt event after Jodie Henry, Libby Trickett and sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell, once again proving the depth of female talent in. the nation's freestyle.
"It's about the experience for me, and I didn't expect that at all," O'Callaghan said.
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