Cameron McEvoy has been beaten in the most agonising of near-misses in his 50m freestyle world title defence, edged for gold by just one-hundredth of a second in one of the shocks of the championships in Doha.
But while the veteran speedster was putting on a brave face after his sensational loss to Ukraine's Vladyslav Bukhov on Saturday (Sunday AEDT), an Australian star of the future Jaclyn Barclay was left savouring her own breakthrough silver in the 200m backstroke.
And to end the penultimate day's action, workaholics Shayna Jack and Brianna Throssell landed their fifth medals of the week as they teamed up with Kai Taylor and Jack Cartwright to win silver in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay behind the victorious Chinese.
