Peaty admits he has lost his 'spark'. 'I don't know what went wrong,' he said. 'With 25m to go, I had nothing in the tank.'
Wilby has for so long been in Peaty's shadow and admitted, after winning 200m silver earlier this week, that he contemplated his swimming future following last year's Olympics, where he won a relay medal but finished outside the podium positions in the individual event.
Asked whether this was the best moment of his career, Wilby said:"It is certainly up there as a special moment that I'll remember forever. "It just sums up to me, enjoyment and having that fun back in the sport is everything. We've all seen faster times than that, but I'm loving it, and that's got me to the top of the podium this time.
"Everything else doesn't matter. I'm always going to have that medal, I'm always going to love looking at it and remembering the moments that brought it here."Alice Tai was another English gold medallist on Sunday night, prevailing in the women's 100m backstroke S8 final, just a few months after having her right leg amputated below the knee."I started and ended last season with surgery, pulled out of Tokyo, then had an amputation in January.
Wales' Medi Harris was a bronze medallist in the women's 100m backstroke, while the quartet of Freya Colbert, Tamryn van Selm, Abbie Wood and Freya Anderson also finished third in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay final.
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