Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk (photo above, left) has taken second place in the 100-metre butterfly final on Monday at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. The silver medal is Belgium’s first medal at a World Aquatics Championships in 27-years.
During the final the 20-year-old from Limburg also broke the Belgian record 100-metre butterfly record for the third time at this year's World Championships that are being held in Singapore.
She swam what her first Belgian record-breaking time of 56.66 seconds in the heats, before setting another new Belgian record time of 56.07 seconds on the semi-finals. In the final she bettered this yet again by further 0.23 seconds, setting a new Belgian record of 55.84 seconds for the 100m butterfly.
Only the American Gretchen Walsh swam faster than Roos Vanotterdijk with a time of 54.73 seconds. The Australian Alexandria Perkins took the bronze medal with a time of 56.33 seconds.
Roos Vanotterdijk’s silver medal was the first for Belgium at a World Aquatics Championships since Frederik Deburghgraeve’s gold medal in Perth, Australia in 1998.