Day eight: Great Britain's Liam Tancock gets the final session of the Championships under way in fine style, setting a new world record of 24.04 seconds to win the men's 50m backstroke
Yuliya Efimova also sets a new world record to win the women's 50m breastroke. The Russian clocks 30.09 seconds with American Rebecca Soni taking silver and Australian Sarah Katsoulis bronze
Germany's Britta Steffen completes the sprint double, adding the women's 50m freestyle to the 100m title she won earlier in the week. Steffen's 23.73 is another world record. Fran Halsall comes fifth in a British record 24.11
The meet finishes with a 43rd world record, in the men's 4x100m medley relay. America smashed their own world record by two seconds, winning in 3:27.28 as Michael Phelps picks up his fifth gold in Rome
Day seven: All eyes are on the men's 100m butterfly final as Michael Phelps takes on arch-rival Milorad Cavic, the man he pipped to win one of his eight golds in Beijing. Cavic had harsh words for Phelps before the race
Phelps trails at the turn but storms home to become the first man under 50 seconds in a world record time of 49.82 - Cavic also goes under 50secs but loses the world record of 50.01 he set on Friday
Briton Liam Tancock puts himself in the frame for gold in the 50m backstroke after setting a world record of 24.08 seconds in his impressive semi-final victory
Jo Jackson (right) claims silver in the 800m freestyle and is consoled by her friend Rebecca Adlington after missing out on the gold. Adlington, the Olympic champion and world record holder, finishes fourth
Day six: Michael Phelps wins his 100m butterfly heat in 50.9secs but arch rival Milorad Cavic, the man he edged by one hundredth of a second in Beijing, is the fastest qualifier in 50.56
World record holder Rebecca Adlington qualifies fastest for Saturday's 800m freestyle final in 8:20.53 with British team-mate Joanne Jackson in second in 8:20.8
Fran Halsall wins Britain's fifth medal of the meet, snatching silver in the women's 100m freestyle behind world record holder Britta Steffen of Germany
Aaron Peirsol of the United States wins the men's 200m backstroke in another world record of 1:51.92 - six were toppled on Friday to take the overall tally to 34 with two days remaining
Milorad Cavic breaks Phelps's world record in his 100m butterfly semi-final - clocking 50.01 seconds to beat the American's mark, set at the US trials earlier this month, of 50.22
Day five: Records continue to tumble in Rome with seven new world best times set including Canada's Annamay Pierse's effort in the women's 200m breaststroke semi-final
American Ryan Lochte shows off his gold medal and his flash teeth after winning the men's 200m individual medley final
Brazil's Cesar Cielo Filho celebrates after wining the men's 100m freestyle final in a stunning world record time
It's all smiles as Rebecca Adlington and Jo Jackson celebrate Great Britain's bronze medal in the the women's 4x200m freestyle final
Day Four: Michael Phelps bounces back from his defeat in the 200m freestyle and makes light of the row over swimsuits by winning his signature 200m butterfly event in a world record time and relatively low-tech outfit
Federica Pellegrini, known as the Lioness of Verona, continues to dominate over the middle-distance freestyle events with a win and a world record in the final of the 200m freestyle
South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh is another to break his own world record from the previous day, clinching the 50m breaststroke in 26.67 seconds
Britain's David Davies is left trailing in the wake of China's Zhang Lin who takes more than six seconds out of the 800m freestyle world record
Day three: Gemma Spofforth wins Britain's first gold in the swimming competition with victory in the 100m backstroke in a world record time
Michael Phelps' hopes of six gold medals is ended by German Paul Biederman who breaks the American's 200m freestyle world record
The darling of Italian swimming Federica Pellegrini destroys the field to set a new 200m freestyle world record in her semi-final
Junya Koga flew the flag for Japan and took advantage of world record holder Aaron Peirsol's absence to win the 100m backstroke
Day two: Gemma Spofforth wins both her heat and semi-final to make the 100m backstroke final along with fellow Briton Lizzie Simmonds
Fellow Briton Liam Tancock edges out world record holder Aaron Peirsol for a place in the final of the 100m backstroke after finishing eighth fastest
Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the Beijing Games, qualifies third fastest for the 400m freestyle but will have it all to do against Germany's Paul Biedermann who sets a Championships record
Swedish teenager Sarah Sjostrom, 15, is left surprised after she breaks her own world record to win the 100m butterfly
American Ariana Kukors swims a sensational 50m freestyle last leg to break her own 200m individual medley world record and beat rival Stephanie Rice to gold
Day One: Britain's Jo Jackson wins her heat in the women's 400m freestyle and qualifies for the final as the third-fastest qualifier behind Italian favourite Federica Pellegrini and American Allison Schmitt
Jackson takes second place in the final with a British record of 4:00.60, just ahead of Olympic champion Adlington who sets a lifetime best of 4:00.79
But neither of the British women can topple Federica Pellegrini who breaks her own world record to swim 400m in 3:59.15 and take the gold medal, the first time four minutes has been broken by a woman
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