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Australia's Ian Thorpe makes history in Barcelona, winning his ninth world championship gold medal in the 400m freestyle

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But Thorpe's hopes of seven golds at Barcelona are ended when Alexander Popov (right) leads his Russian team to 4x100m gold

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Canada's Alexandre Despatie earns two maximum 10 marks as he claims gold in the 10m platform diving competition

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China's Xu Xiang wins the gold medal in the men's 1m springboard event, scoring 431.94 points

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Italy's Viola Valli wins the 10K women's swim, coming in 1.2 seconds faster than silver medallist Angela Mauer

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Spain's synchronised swimming team perform their silver-medal winning routine in the free routine combination event

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Irina Lashko collects her first World Championship gold medal since becoming an Australian, winning the women's 1m springboard

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Italy's Viola Valli takes the women's 5km open water event in 57mins 1.2secs to beat Czech Jana Pechanova

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Yevgeny Kochkarov of Russia wins the 5km open water event in 53 minutes 11.9 seconds, ahead of German Christian Hein

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Australian gold medallists Mathew Helm and Robert Newbery dive in the synchro finals

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France's Virginie Dedieu performs her gold-medal winning routine in the synchronised swimming solo final