Emma McKeon waves at boyfriend Cody Simpson after taking gold in the world championships

Emma McKeon added to Australia’s gold rush at the quick course world championships on Thursday as the swimming star gave boyfriend Cody Simpson a wave after successful the 100m freestyle.

The host nation has now gained eight gold medals after McKeon and Kyle Chalmers stormed to victory in Melbourne on Thursday night time whereas Chalmers additionally anchored the males’s 4x50m freestyle workforce to a last-gasp win.

Australia solely trails Team USA in the medal tally by one gold.

Emma McKeon was all smiles as she helped add one other gold to Australia’s medal tally

The swimming famous person waved at her boyfriend Cody Simpson after her 100m freestyle win

Despite proudly owning 17 Olympic medals between them, McKeon had by no means beforehand gained a person world championship title at both quick or lengthy course.

But McKeon blitzed the girls’s last with Siobhan Haughey from Hong Kong second and Dutch swimmer Marrit Steenbergen accumulating the bronze medal.

Fellow Australian Madi Wilson was fourth.

With her former pop star boyfriend Cody Simpson watching on, McKeon stopped the clock in 50.77 seconds, touching 0.10 forward of defending champion Haughey.

Pop star Simpson was in the crowd and couldn’t compete owing to an harm he has suffered

‘It was a decent end – I solely simply realised after the race however to get my hand on the wall first is all you really need,’ McKeon mentioned.

The reigning 50 and 100m Olympic champion, McKeon signalled her intentions with a blistering relay leg on Tuesday night time which helped Australia win gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay in world file time.

Elsewhere, world file holder Chalmers motored dwelling in the last lap of the males’s 100m freestyle last to reel in chief Jordan Crooks from the Cayman Islands, who light from the medal positions.

Chalmers touched the wall in 45.16 – exterior his world finest time of 44.84 – with Frenchman Maxime Grousset second in 45.41 and Italian Alessandro Miressi taking bronze in 45.57.

The lengthy course world file holder, Romanian teenager David Popovici, was fourth.

Elsewhere, Kyle Chalmers additionally gained gold in the 100m freestyle to cap off a powerful 2022

‘I needed to pull out of the final three world quick course championships as a result of harm and well being points so for me to lastly make it to 1 and stand on the high of the podium is one thing I’m going to recollect for the remainder of my remainder of my life,’ 24-year-old Chalmers mentioned.

While the Australian girls, with McKeon on board, needed to accept silver in their 4x50m freestyle relay behind the USA, Chalmers grabbed gold in the males’s relay with a powerhouse last lap to pip the Italians by simply 0.04.

Isaac Cooper led the Australian workforce out with Matt Temple and Flynn Southam following earlier than Chalmers hit the water in fifth spot.

But the velocity king mowed down the subject with a break up of 20.34.

The swimming gun opened up on his struggles earlier this 12 months however is in scintillating type

Australia gained two different medals on day three with 20-year-old Thomas Neill stunning to win silver in the males’s 400m freestyle behind American Keiran Smith whereas fellow younger Queenslander Lizzie Dekkers trailed American Dakota Luther to assert bronze in the 200m butterfly.

As properly as his relay gold Cooper, who gained bronze in the 100m backstroke, shocked the 50m backstroke subject and can go into the last as the quickest qualifier.

The 18-year-old was banished from the Commonwealth Games workforce for misusing prescription treatment however has bounced again in fashion.

‘It was actually powerful at this time as the fatigue is admittedly setting in and in the warm-up pool I felt horrible,’ the Queenslander mentioned.

‘I’ve recognized I’ve had that velocity for some time and I’m glad I might execute.’

In different outcomes, South African Chad Le Clos gained the males’s 200m butterfly, American lengthy course world file holder Lilly King clinched gold in the 100m breaststroke and teammate Nic Fink took out the males’s equal.