Great Britain’s Laura Stephens won a maiden world title in the females’s 200m butterfly at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha. The 24-year-old swam 2 minutes 7.35 seconds to endedupbeing GB’s veryfirst specific female world champ giventhat2011 “I can’t think it – all I was thinking about in the last 50m was holding on,” stated Stephens. Later on Thursday, GB’s ladies took silver in the 4x200m freestyle to safeandsecure the country’s 15th general medal. The British quartet of Freya Colbert, Abbie Wood, Lucy Hope and Medi Eira Harris endedup in 7 minutes 50.90 seconds. A outstanding leg from Wood saw Britain lead at the midway point however China came back to clinch gold as Britain held off a late rise from Australia, who took bronze. Elsewhere, after breezing through certification in 3rd location, Duncan Scott endedup 6th in the 200m person assortment. Matt Richards simply missedouton out on a medal in the males’s 100m freestyle, completing 4th behind China’s world record holder Zhanle Pan in veryfirst, Italy’s Alessandro Miressi in 2nd and Hungary’s Nandor Nemeth in 3rd. Anna Hopkin will
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