<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Alia Atkinson of Jamaica competes in the 50m breaststroke final on day two of the 13th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) at the WFCU Centre on December 7, 2016 in Windsor Ontario, Canada. (Photo: AFP)</span>
December 7, 2016
Alia wins silver in 50m breaststroke at short-course worlds
MONTREAL, Canada — Jamaican swimmer Alia Atkinson finished second in the 50-metre breaststroke at the Short Course Swimming World Championships in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday.
She took the silver medal behind American Lilly King, who copped the gold.
After winning a gold medal in the 4x50m medley relay in a record-shattering 1min 43.27sec with the United States’ Alexandra De Loof, Kelsi Worrell and Katrina Konopka — erasing the previous record of 1:44.04 set by Denmark at the 2014 short course worlds in Doha — King returned to win individual gold in the 50m breaststroke in 28.92sec.
The American got the better of world record-holder Atkinson (29.11) with fellow American Molly Hannis third in 29.58.
Additional reporting AFP
