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Ellie Simmonds' medal joy

Ellie Simmonds added to her medal haul at the IPC Swimming European Championships with silver in the S6 100m freestyle.

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The Walsall star clocked one minute 14.49 seconds in the Eindhoven final, behind Ukraine's Yelyzaveta Mereshko.

Mereshko touched in 1:13.8 to beat Simmonds' European record by over a second. It had stood since London 2012.

Earlier in the week, Simmonds won gold in both the S6 200m individual medley and the S6 400m freestyle plus silver in the S6 60m freestyle.

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