Iona Anderson has just missed out on gold at the world championships, but the astonished 18-year-old was still left delighted at picking up her second silver of the week in Doha in the 50m backstroke.
On a day when bronze for the Australian women's 4x200m freestyle relay quartet in the final event took the Dolphins' overall tally of swimming medals into double figures, Anderson's continuing breakthrough took pride of place at the Aspire Dome.
Already a surprise silver medallist in the 100m back, West Australia's world junior champ produced a dazzling late surge in the one-lap sprint to finish just two-hundredths of a second behind Claire Curzan, the American who also beat her for gold in the longer race.
