{"id":28221,"date":"2022-06-24T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ben-proud-wins-great-britain-s-first-gold-of-world-aquatics-championships"},"modified":"2022-06-24T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T22:14:10","slug":"ben-proud-wins-great-britain-s-first-gold-of-world-aquatics-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ben-proud-wins-great-britain-s-first-gold-of-world-aquatics-championships","title":{"rendered":"Ben Proud wins Great Britain&#8217;s first gold of World Aquatics Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Proud spoke of his &#8220;really special&#8221; moment after ending Great Britain&#8217;s wait for gold at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest . Proud claimed the 50m freestyle title in 21.32 seconds, ahead of Michael Andrew (21.41) of the United States and France&#8217;s Maxime Grousset (21.57). &#8220;To come top of the podium, it&#8217;s really special,&#8221; said Proud, 27, who had carried the tag of race favourite following Olympic champion Caeleb Dressel&#8217;s withdrawal from the competition. &#127468;&#127463;Benjamin Proud is the new World Champion!! Men&#8217;s 50 Freestyle FINAL #FINABudapest2022 pic.twitter.com\/qPRktAF6WD &#8212; FINA (@fina1908) June 24, 2022 &#8220;If you said at the start of the week I was going to win this, I wouldn&#8217;t have believed you. I&#8217;m thrilled.&#8221; Fellow Briton Lewis Burras finished seventh as Proud again showed his liking for swimming in Budapest. Proud had pulled off a shock 50m butterfly win at the World Championships in the same pool five years ago. He said: &#8220;Budapest is a beautiful place, great<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Proud spoke of his &#8220;really special&#8221; moment after ending Great Britain&#8217;s wait for gold at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.Proud claimed the 50m freestyle title in 21.32 seconds,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[26,58,512,443,102],"class_list":["post-28221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-gold","tag-sports","tag-swimming-surfing","tag-tokyo-olympics","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}