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Swim sensation Erika Fairweather was favoured to win her second gold medal at the world championships in Doha this morning.
She had qualified fastest in the 200m freestyle — following her dazzling swim in the 400m on Monday to claim a first world title by a New Zealand swimmer — and the gun was set to fire on the final at 5.15am (NZ time).
Fairweather, 20, looked in sublime form in the 200m semifinals yesterday. She touched the wall in 1min 55.75sec, a shade outside her personal best (1min 55.44sec) but comfortably inside the Olympic qualification standard.
Fairweather shaded Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey (1min 56.04sec) and Australian Shayna Jack (1min 56.8sec).
The Dunedin swimmer had qualified second-fastest from the heats into the semifinals with a time of 1min 57.4sec.
Reigning world champion Mollie O’Callaghan is not competing at the event. She set a world record of 1min 52.85sec to win last year’s title in Fukuoka.
Fellow Australian Ariarne Titmus and Canadian star Summer McIntosh, who rounded out the podium a year ago, are also not swimming in Doha.
New Zealand swimmer Eve Thomas finished fourth in the 1500m final with a personal best of 16min 9.43sec, 22.44sec behind winner Simona Quadrella, of Italy.
Commonwealth Games champion Lewis Clareburt set the sixth-best time in the 200m butterfly semifinals and was also appearing in a final this morning.
