Gold-medal-winning swimmer Shayna Jack has damaged her hand in coaching and can miss the remainder of the world swimming championships.
Key factors:
- Jack will sit out the remainder of the world championships
- Fellow Australian Mollie O’Callaghan received her 100m warmth
- Various swimmers have withdrawn on medical grounds, together with Siobhán Haughey and Caeleb Dressel
Jack broke her hand as she was warming up for Wednesday morning’s 100-metres freestyle heats on the competitors in Budapest.
The 23-year-old, in her return from a doping ban, beforehand helped Australia to gold within the 4x100m freestyle relay on Saturday and silver within the combined 4x100m medley relay on Tuesday.
Australia nonetheless took victory in warmth one, with teammate Mollie O’Callaghan swimming the quickest qualifying time, adopted by Canada’s Penny Oleksiak, america’ Torri Huske, and world document holder Sarah Sjöström.
Jack is simply the newest high-profile swimmer to tug out of the competitors.
Hong Kong’s Siobhán Haughey, the Olympic silver medallist within the 100m and 200m freestyle, withdrew on Monday as a consequence of an ankle damage.
4-time Olympic medallist Chad Le Clos withdrew from the boys’s competitors on Monday as a consequence of well being considerations.
The South African mentioned on social media he had been struggling along with his respiratory for the earlier three weeks “since having a number of stints of bronchitis”.
American star Caeleb Dressel withdrew from the 100m freestyle on medical grounds on Tuesday.
AP
