Commonwealth Games: Masse pips Seebohm for 100m backstroke title

Gold Coast: Canada's Kylie Masse ended the reign of Australia's Emily Seebohm in the women's 100m backstroke when she won the title at at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
Masse clocked a Commonwealth Games record 58.63 seconds to pip Seebohm by 0.03 seconds in the lunge for the wall in a race that many had predicted would be a classic given they had broken the Commonwealth record three times between them on Friday.
Seebohm, who had won the previous two Commonwealth titles, took silver, with Canada's Taylor Ruck, who had just tied for silver in the women's 50m freestyle, finishing third in 58.97.
The Australian had gone out fast and turned for home under world record pace but the tall 22-year-old Masse timed her final stroke to perfection to become the first Canadian since Wendy Cook in 1974 to win the Commonwealth 100m backstroke title.