Matt Richards and Tom Dean won 200m freestyle gold and silver to secure Great Britain’s first medals of the World Aquatics Championships in Japan.
Richards, 20, produced an outstanding final 50m to pip Olympic champion Dean to gold in a time of one minute and 44.30 seconds.
South Korea’s Hwang Sun-woo took the bronze as 2022 world champion David Popovici of Romania finished fourth.
“I am pretty tired but over the moon. It was a stacked field,” said Richards.
“It’s amazing to come away with the GB 1-2 again.”
The result follows the British gold and silver won at the Tokyo Olympics when Dean, now 23, and Duncan Scott finished first and second.
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