Atkinson maintains rich post-Olympic form

Alia Atkinson continued her superb post Olympic form by landing her second victory at the FINA  Swimming World Cup meet in France grabbing gold in the women's 50 metre breast-stroke gold.

Having equalled the world short-course record in the 100 breast on Friday, the 27 year old posted a brilliant 29.25 seconds in the 50 breast-stroke on Saturday.

She again beat Olympic 100m silver medallist, Russia's Yuliya Efimova who swam 29.34 seconds for the runner-up spot and American Katie Meili who claimed bronze in 29.75 seconds.  

Atkinson was also a fourth place finisher in the 50 metre butterfly. She touched in 26.04 seconds, almost a second behind the winner Jeanette Ottesen of  Denmark 25.09.