Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey followed up her 100m win the night before by winning the 50m freestyle at the China Open Swimming Championships, while Australia’s Cameron McEvoy won the men’s breaststroke to break the world record.
Shortly after winning the 50m, Haughey also won a silver medal in the 200m freestyle.
As he did on Thursday, Haughey won at the Longgang Universiade Center Natatorium in Shenzhen by the narrowest of margins, finishing in 24.41 seconds, just ahead of Chinese swimmer Cheng Yujie, who was just 0.01 seconds behind.
Close behind was 24-year-old American Olympic champion Kate Douglass, who stopped the clock at 24.44. Douglass was also third in the 100m on Thursday.
Teammate Gretchen Walsh, the eighth fastest woman in history in the 50m, finished fourth in 24.46 seconds.
Multi-Olympic medalist Haughey was just outside his lifetime and national best of 24.30 seconds which he set at the 2023 Swimming World Cup in Budapest.
