Swimming World Championships: Siobhan Haughey wins silver in 100m freestyle
- Hong Kong’s Haughey was defending her title at the short-course World Championships in a race that pitted her against Olympic champion Emma McKeon of Australia
- She is narrowly beaten into second place but posts her best time of the season
Defending the title she won in Abu Dhabi a year ago, Haughey clocked 50.87 seconds – 0.1 sec behind McKeon. She and the Australian pulled clear of the rest in the second half of the race but McKeon was always in front.
“It was a really exciting and impressive final, as expected,” Hong Kong head coach Chen Jianhong said.
“It’s a bit of a pity that Siobhan lost narrowly, by a hand length. I think her ankle injury may have affected her a little bit.”
The ankle problem, caused by a poolside slip during a training session in Dubai in May, meant that Haughey missed the summer’s long-course World Championships – held in a 50m pool rather than the short-course 25m – and she went 10 months without an international competition after winning her two world titles last December.
