Harvey earns breaststroke gold as GB win six medals

At the World Parasitic Championships in Singapore, Great Britain added six more medals to their tally with the women’s SB5 100m breaststroke victory.

In a minute 42.88 seconds, Harvey, 27, won in a title she last won in 2022, almost four seconds ahead of Ukraine’s Anna Hontar.

It was Great Britain’s 11th Championship gold.

“Anna going out fast for the SB5 class, which is great competition, but to win,” Harvey said. “I’m beyond happy.

“I’ve been training breaststroke all season, and this was the one, my child, my baby, so I gave it everything today,” she said. For me, that was the ideal race.

In the mixed 4x100m medley, Alice Tai, who won four golds in the competition’s first four days, won a silver medal alongside Bruce Dee, Roan Brennan, and Faye Rogers.

With a time of 4:31.65, they came in ahead of Spain.

Rogers finished just three hundredths of a second ahead of Turkish swimmer Defne Kurt in the women’s S10 100m butterfly competition earlier that day.

Rhys Darbey also broke the previous world record by placing second behind Gabriel Bandeira in the men’s SM14 200m individual medley. His time of 2:05.84 is the best in Europe.

“It’s nice to go under that old world record, and it’s unbelievable for two of us to do it,” Darbey said.