{"id":318257,"date":"2023-07-23T12:14:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T12:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=318257"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T14:58:24","slug":"aussie-teen-stuns-olympic-champ-in-freestyle-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=318257","title":{"rendered":"Aussie teen stuns Olympic champ in freestyle final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian teen Sam Short has stunned Olympic<\/a> champion Ahmed Hafnaoui to claim the men's 400m freestyle title at the \ufeffWorld Aquatics Championships<\/a> in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n

Short swam an incredible 3:40.68 to edge out the Tunisian star by 0.02 seconds in a thrilling finish. Germany's Lukas Martens finished third with a time of 3:42.20.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffIt's bloody amazing," he told Nine after the race.<\/p>\n

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"I knew it was going to be a race in two with 100m left and he was the defending Olympic champion. <\/p>\n

\"FUKUOKA,<\/p>\n

"I kind of got goosebumps knowing I was in a race with him and got my hand on the wall first. It's a dream come true and hasn't really sunk in yet. I claimed it and it feels good to flex in front of everyone."<\/p>\n

The win capped off an incredible 12 months for Short, who had a melanoma removed from his back last year. <\/p>\n

\ufeff"I've bounced back from last year amazing," he said.<\/p>\n

"All the struggles I went through last year, this is nothing compared to that really. I'm just enjoying the hard work I've put in the bank and I'm loving every bit of it."<\/p>\n

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Australian teen Sam Short has stunned Olympic champion Ahmed Hafnaoui to claim the men's 400m freestyle title at the \ufeffWorld Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka. Short […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318261,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318257\/revisions\/318261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}