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Barcelona, Aug 5 (IANS)
Camille Lacourt of France celebrates winning the Men’s Backstroke 50m Final on day sixteen of the 15th FINA World Championships at Palau Sant Jordi on August 4, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Camille Lacourt won France’s third gold medal of the world swimming championships when he won the men’s 50 metres backstroke.
The fastest swimmer of the year in the discipline, who had taken silver in the 100m earlier in the week, lived up to his billing as pre-race favourite as he was able to make up ground in the last 20m to finish just ahead of his countryman Jeremy Stravius in a time of 24.42 Sunday, reports Xinhua.
Staivius shared silver with 100m champion Matt Grevers as both clocked the same time of 24.58.
