SINGAPORE - Canada’s Danielle Dorris defended her gold medal in the S7 50-metre butterfly Thursday at the world para swimming championships.

The 23-year-old from Moncton, N.B., finished in a championship-record time of 33.93 seconds, 32-hundredths of a second ahead of Mallory Weggemann of the United States.

Colombia’s Sara Vargas was third in 35.21 seconds.

Dorris’s third straight 50 butterfly world title comes a day after she finished second in the 100-metre backstroke, relinquishing the title she won in that event at the 2023 world championships in Manchester, England.

The gold highlighted Canada’s first three-medal day of the championships. Katie Cosgriffe of Burlington, Ont., and Nicholas Bennett of Parksville, B.C., claimed bronze in the women’s 100 fly S10 and the men’s 200 indiv

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