\ufeffAmerican Claire Curzan stopped the clock at 58.29 seconds to clinch gold in Doha, as Anderson grabbed silver in 59.12 and Canada's Ingrid Wilm bronze in 59.18.<\/p>\n
EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Seven-time champ reveals silver lining in Supercars saga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \ufeffREAD MORE:<\/strong> Gould facing three-club fight to keep gun forward<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Warner confirms retirement call in Aussie farewell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The trio cleaned up the medals in a weakened race, which was without the top four from the 2023 world titles final in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n \ufeffThe 2023 gold medallist, Australia's Kaylee McKeown, and last year's silver and bronze medallists, USA duo Regan Smith and Katharine Berkoff, were all missing, as was fourth-placed finisher Kylie Masse of Canada.<\/p>\n Watch the 2024 World Aquatics Championships\ufeff live and exclusively on<\/strong><\/em> 9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n "I am just grateful to be here on this team and to have the chance to race," Anderson said.<\/p>\n "It's given me a little boost before Olympic trials [taking place in Brisbane in June], and to just be on the world stage is incredible."<\/p>\n Another Australian\ufeff, Queensland 17-year-old Jaclyn Barclay, finished fourth in the final.<\/p>\n "I just go about racing the same way, whether it's states or an international meet," Anderson added.<\/p>\n "And it's nice to have this experience with Jaclyn. It's good to be able to walk out together and have someone you know."<\/p>\n Anderson\ufeff and Barclay are world junior champions, in the 50m and 100m backstroke respectively.<\/p>\n The rising duo will be back in the pool for the 50m backstroke heats on Wednesday evening (AEDT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The depth of Australia's female backstroke stocks is strong. West Australian\ufeff 18-year-old Iona Anderson reminded Australian swimming fans of exactly that by collecting a silver […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368174,"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\/368172"}],"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=368172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368175,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368172\/revisions\/368175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/368174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n