Gold for Tayla Lovemore on the second day of the 30th Summer Universiade in Napoli

It was a fight to the finish in the 50m butterfly final, where Lovemore ended with the gold medal in a fast time of 26.25 ahead of Japan’s Ai Soma in 26.38 and South Korea’s Soeun Jeong in 26.41.

Lovemore also swam the 100m freestyle heats, where she qualified for the semi-finals in 8^th place, clocking 56.32 but decided to withdraw from the race to focus on her gold medal winning performance in the 50m butterfly.

Tatjana Schoenmaker cruised into the final of the 100m breaststroke, posting 1:06.32 during tonight’s semi-finals and grabbing the top stop, while Kaylene Corbett managed an 11^th place finish in 1:08.75.

In the final of the 100m backstroke, Zane Waddell finished 4^th in 53.87, just 0.06secs short of the USA’s Justin Ress’s bronze medal time of 53.81, while Michael Houlie came in 5^th place in the 100m breaststroke final in 59.92.

The morning heats session saw Brent Szurdoki finish 28^th in the 200m freestyle in 1:51.86, while Eben Vorster came in 21^st place in the 200m individual medley with a time of 2:03.18.

Joshua Dannhauser just missed out on a spot in the 1500m freestyle final when he concluded the heats in an overall 11^th place, clocking 15:39.50.

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