A personal best time wasn't enough for gold, but Emma McKeon was fast enough to win the bronze in a hotly contested 100m butterfly final.
"I am pretty pleased, I will be on the Olympic podium so you can't really be more happy," McKeon told Channel Seven after the race.
"I was just focusing on my race. I could see the American girl on the other side of me and I realised we were 0.01 off third and fourth.", and is also one to watch in the 100m freestyle heats on Wednesday. Her final was the first of a number of big races for the Australian team on Monday, with Ariarne Titmus preparing to take on American Katie Ledecky in the 400m freestyle and the men's 4x100m freestyle relay team eyeing gold.
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