LONDON: American swimming sensation Missy Franklin produced a rousing finish to overhaul Australian Emily Seebohm and win the women's 100m backstroke final on Monday.
Franklin only swam minutes earlier in another event but still had enough to finish the better to down Seebohm in 58.33seconds.
Seebohm was second in 58.68secs with Japan's Aya Terakawa 58.83secs third.
The 17-year-old from Colorado could swim four individual events and three relays in London, a programme that could make her the first US woman to swim seven events at one Olympics.
Only 10 minutes earlier Franklin swam in a semi-final of the 200m freestyle finishing eighth fastest into Tuesday's final.
Seebohm, the fastest into the final, had swum an Olympic record in the semi-finals of 58.23sec but could not withstand Franklin's powerful finish.
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