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By Elizabeth Hudson
BBC Sport in London
Brock Whiston denied Great Britain team-mate Alice Tai a gold medal at the World Para-swimming Championships.
Tai, who has swept all before her this week, explained the medley as a”bonus occasion” on her program and was fourth.
Whiston, in her first significant championship, conquer American Jessica Long into second.
She even took the American’s entire record.
There were silvers on the penultimate day of action for Ellie Robinson, Reece Dunn and Bethany Firth.
This means GB possess 39 awards, such as 15 golds.
Before she realised that she had been eligible for Para-swimming whiston, 22, has hemiplegia, that has been a talented swimmer in non-disabled contest and causes weakness down the side of her own body.
“When I was around 15 I was beginning to find things difficult in practice and had been suffering with a lot of dislocations in my shoulder,” she told BBC Sport.
“We had been nationals a couple years back and one of the English Para-swimming staff asked me if I’d ever thought about para-swimming, that I had not.
“I saw Ellie Simmonds’s 400m freestyle race in London 2012 and to be here in her footsteps is just incredible.”
Whiston’s power is her breaststroke and despite turning 10 seconds behind Tai into the breaststroke leg, then it took her less than 25m to reevaluate her team-mate and take a lead that she never looked like losing.
She finished in two minutes 35.30 seconds, beating Long’s old mark, set at the US Paralympic trials in 2012 by 0.7secs.
“To have raced Jess and Alice, a couple of the best swimmers in this category, and come away with a gold is amazing,” she added.
“I don’t believe it has sunk . Jess’s world record was amazing and to now maintain this, I can not ask for much more in my very first big tournament”
While Tai said that she was happy with her screen whiston, who was also part of the successful medley relay on Friday, goes on Sunday at the breaststroke in which she is preferred to get a third golden.
“I know Brock has got an insanely powerful breaststroke so that my trainer’s game plan was’Move out difficult and if you die, at least die trying!’ And that is exactly what occurred,” she explained.
“Halfway down the breaststroke leg, I could not feel my entire body and when I turned onto the freestyle I thought’oh dear’.
“But I have not trained for the medley – that I don’t train breaststroke whatsoever and fourth is a fantastic outcome.”
Paralympic winner Robinson watched her S6 50m butterfly world record of 35.22secs disappear at the hands of 14-year-old Chinese rival Yuyan Jiang who was winning her third gold of this week.
The 18-year-old from Northampton has pledged to use the defeat to market her on.
“I am really, really frustrated, not with forthcoming moment, but my period wasn’t as near my PB as I would like it to be,” she said after finishing in 35.61secs using Jiang clocking 34.86.
“I knew it’d be very difficult since the Chinese girl has done really well here but I will go out and use it as motivation.
“She is not too much front of me and hopefully I can use it in order to question myself more in training. Having that danger is nice but today I want to place myself at the ideal location for Tokyo so when we stand on the block no one knows who will win.”
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