After both winning gold, 100m freestyler Mollie O'Callaghan and 200m breast-stroker Zac Stubblety-Cook will enter the Commonwealth Games in top form.
Mollie O'Callaghan and Zac Stubblety-Cook have made it another golden day for Australia at the world swimming championships in Budapest.Mollie O'Callaghan, 18, beats world record holder to win her first individual gold medal of the meet, with a time of 52.67 secondsZac Stubblety-Cook also came from behind to win his final, finishing 1.31 seconds ahead of joint silver medallists
Their brilliant come-from-behind wins doubled Australia's golden tally to four, while Jenna Strauch, in the women's 200m breaststroke, and the men's 4x200m freestyle quartet of Elijah Winnington, Zac Incerti, Sam Short and Mack Horton also added silvers. Once again, the Brisbane teenager won it the hard way, turning sixth after the first 50m, 0.61 behind Sjostrom.However, just as in Wednesday's semi-final — when she produced the fastest second-half of a women's 100m freestyle race ever recorded, 26.43sec — to roar from last to first, O'Callaghan again timed her race perfectly, clocking 26.71 for the final 50.
Once in the water, though, she was nerveless as she became the fifth Australian woman to win the blue riband event after Jodie Henry, Libby Trickett and sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell, once again demonstrating the depth of the nation's female freestyling talent.Stubblety-Cook swam an equally extraordinary race.
Zac Stubblety-Cook won his first gold of the 2022 championships, while his two main competitors took out the joint-silver medal, finishing with the same time."Coming off trials last month was a different mindset than what I had going into last year, as well as the different pressure. Tonight, I just really wanted to go out and enjoy the race."
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