WINNER WALSH CRANKING UP TO 11

American swimmer ends world c'ships with 7 golds, flurry of world records

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BUDAPEST - Gretchen Walsh set two more world records on Dec 15 on the final evening of competition to take her tally to 11 at the short-course swimming world championships in Budapest, Hungary.

She opened the evening with a world mark in the 50m freestyle and ended it as part of the American 4x100m medley team alongside two more women who set multiple records during the week - Regan Smith, who set an individual world record leading off in the backstroke leg, and Kate Douglass.

Smith had earlier set another world record as she won the 200m backstroke. Luke Hobson set his second world record of the week in the men's 200m free.

Four Russians, swimming as "neutral athletes", closed the competition at Duna Arena by breaking the men's 4x100m medley relay record.

Walsh, 21, collected her sixth gold of the week when she won the 50m freestyle in 22.83 seconds to shave 0.04sec off the record she set in the semi-finals on Dec 14.