China's Xu Jiayu won men's 100m backstroke gold at the world aquatics championships on Tuesday but confessed he was "disappointed" not to set a new world record.
The 21-year-old Olympic silver medallist clocked 52.44 seconds with the American duo of Matt Grevers earning silver, at 0.04sec back, and Olympic champion Ryan Murphy taking bronze at 0.15.
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China's backstroke specialist Xu Jiayu renewed his own 200m national record at the National Championships here on Friday.
Xu timed one minute 54.79 seconds in the final, 0.26 seconds less than his old national record 1:55.05. His time ranks first in the world so far the year. Zhejiang's Li Guangyuan came second in 1:56.41, while Zhejiang's Shi Yi third inRead more