Proud takes 50m freestyle silver in Singapore

At the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Benjamin Proud finished second to Olympic champion Cameron McEvoy in the 50-meter freestyle.

Proudly improved his 21.61 second semi-final time, coming in second with a 21.26sec time, but it didn’t get Australian McEvoy’s way.

The two again placed first and second in a respectable field, a parody of the Paris Olympics competition.

Summer McIntosh’s hopes of joining Michael Phelps as the only swimmer to capture five gold medals at a single world championship were ended by nine-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky.

Ledecky won the gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle in a dramatic time of 8:05.52, 0.36 seconds, ahead of Lani Pallister, who was in second.

For the first time in the same 800-meter freestyle, two women ever went below 8: 06.00.