GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) - Canada's Kylie Masse ended the reign of Australia's Emily Seebohm in the women's 100m backstroke at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on Saturday and continued their exciting rivalry heading into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Masse clocked a Commonwealth Games record 58.63 seconds to pip Seebohm by 0.03 seconds in the lunge for the wall at the Gold Coast Aquatics centre. It was the third time the 22-year-old Masse had broken the Commonwealth Games record in the past two days and inched her closer to her own world mark of 58.10 set in Budapest last year. "I knew she was going to be right there," Masse said of Seebohm on Saturday. Seebohm said that Masse was proving not only a tough opponent but also a motivation tool for her.

Source: The Star April 07, 2018 10:43 UTC