Inge Dekker on Saturday took the gold medal in the 50-metres butterfly at the world swimming championships in Shanghai, beating the Swedish favourite Therese Alshammar.

Dekker was also part of the 4×100 relay free-style team, which took gold earlier in the week.
Sharon van Rouwendaal, a 17-year-old taking part in her first world championships final, took bronze in the 200-metre back stroke, behind Americans Melissa Franklin and Belinda Hocking.
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