McKeown's admission after thrilling backstroke title win

Kaylee McKeown has responded to her brutal disqualification successful cleanable manner with a stunning travel from down triumph successful the women's 100-metre backstroke last astatine the World Aquatics Championships successful Fukuoka.

McKeown turned for the last 50 metres down America's Regan Smith, but took retired the golden medal with a accelerated last stretch, touching the partition astatine 57.53, 00.25 seconds up of Smith (57.78). America's Katharine Berkoff took retired the bronze medal with a clip of 58.25.

The triumph capped disconnected a rollercoaster 48 hours for the Australian star, who was near seething aft being controversially disqualified during the women's 200-metre idiosyncratic medley semi-final connected Sunday night.

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However, the 22-year-old saw the affirmative broadside successful the play aft her backstroke rubric win.

"I'm definite there's been worse I've had to woody with, but it's decidedly thing I've learnt from, conscionable not to instrumentality it truthful emotionally and conscionable hide astir it really," she told Nine.

McKeown celebrates aft claiming the 100-metre backstroke rubric pursuing a thrilling decorativeness (Sarah Stier via Getty Images)

"It was going to beryllium 50-50 betwixt the Americans and I, truthful it was truly bully coming backmost connected that past 50 ... I dug heavy and gave it everything I could."

McKeown admitted that she was tense anterior to the race.

"I've ne'er been this shaky successful my life. I felt similar I needed to vomit earlier my race," she said.

"My aged manager utilized to accidental if you're tense to that grade it means you attraction astir what you're astir to do, truthful I truly chanelled that and did what I could."

Australian swimming icon Ian Thorpe was afloat of praise for however McKeown rebounded from her disqualification successful the medley semi-final.

"It was unsocial circumstances coming disconnected what was a disappointing disqualification," helium told Nine.

McKeown poses with her golden medal aft claiming the 100-metre backstroke satellite rubric (Sarah Stier via Getty Images)

"Two days aft that being capable to make a show similar this it shows the grit and determination that Kaylee McKeown has.

"She takes that with her and she owns that. It was down to the past 15 metres."

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McKeown volition purpose to marque it 2 golds aboriginal successful the conscionable erstwhile she gets backmost successful the excavation for the 200-metre backstroke, the lawsuit wherever she is the reigning Olympic champion.

"My velocity is there, whether oregon not my endurance is determination is thing we've got to fig out," she said erstwhile asked astir her prospects successful the 200.

"We'll spot what happens."

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