Rocky’s Madison Wilson wins silver at World Championships

Emily Seebohm claimed her second gold of the world swimming championships with victory in the women’s 100m backstroke final on Tuesday.

Larkin took part in the 2012 London Olympics but really showed his potential with 200m Backstroke Gold and 50m & 100m Backstroke Silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Seebohm had little expectations ahead of the meet after splitting with her coach Matt Brown weeks after the trials and dislocating her knee in a freak horse riding accident in May.

But her relaxed approach finally proved a winning formula, snapping what seemed an endless wait for individual world titles gold since her 2007 debut.

“This doesn’t feel real”.

“I woke up this morning and it felt like I had to pinch myself”, said Seebohm of the relay win.

“It’s the best feeling I have experienced. I won’t be sleeping tonight”.

Seebohm (58.26 seconds) clocked a time that would have also claimed gold at the 2013 worlds and London Olympics.

World 400m freestyle No. 1 Mack Horton, defending 100m breaststroke champion Christian Sprenger and the 4x100m freestyle relay team all failed to make finals.

Seebohm only cried tears of joy when she was joined on the podium by Wilson on Tuesday night.

“That’s what I forgot to do in London, not take it too seriously”.

Two individual gold and one silver is the best night the Dolphins have had since the final night in 2005 when they won four gold.

Ledecky thrilled the large crowd recording a new world record time of 15:25.48 with the silver medal going to Lauren Boyle (15:40.14) from New Zealand with Hungarian Boglarka Kapas (15:47.09) taking the bronze. Larkin, 22, has become just the third person in history to hold both the short and long course world 100m backstroke titles.

“We are trying to come together as a men’s team and keep up with the females”, Larkin said.

“I saw the light on my block and I thought ‘wow this is the moment, this is what you’ve dreamt of for years”.

“A little bit, I had led from the heats and had been swimming good times”, he said. “I couldn’t be happier”.

The men’s 200m freestyle final saw a surprise victor in Great Britain’s James Guy in a speedy 1:45.14.