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Molly Renshaw picks up 200m silver for England

Team England swimmer Molly Renshaw upgrades her 200m breaststroke bronze from Glasgow to a silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

Team England swimmer Molly Renshaw has won the silver medal in the women's 200m breaststroke at the Commonwealth Games.

The 21-year-old claimed bronze in the same event at the Glasgow Games four years ago, but she was able to upgrade that to silver at the Optus Aquatics Centre on the Gold Coast this evening.

Renshaw was pushed the distance by Welsh swimmer Chloe Tutton, but narrowly beat her British rival by 0.12s to claim second place as Tutton was forced to settle for bronze.

Neither was able to get too close to South African Tatjana Schoenmaker, though, as she finished more than a second clear of the pack to claim her first medal of the Games after narrowly missing out in the 50m breaststroke.

Canada's Kierra Smith came home in fourth place, touching the wall just two-hundredths of a second behind Tutton.

Aussie duo Taylor McKeown and Tessa Wallace could only finish in fifth and sixth respectively, meanwhile, as the host nation missed out on the podium having dominated proceedings in the pool so far.

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