SHANGHAI, July 25 (UPI) -- Brazilian Cesar Cielo and U.S. swimmer Dana Vollmer won gold medals Monday in butterfly events at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Shanghai.
Cielo, cleared for completion last week by the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, won the 50-meter butterfly in 23.10 seconds, ahead of Australians Matthew Targett (23.28) and Geoff Huegill (23.35).
Cielo had been accused of taking a banned substance, a violation for which the Brazilian swimming federation issued a warning but the International Swimming Federation appealed, seeking a suspension. The CAS turned down the appeal last week, allowing Cielo to compete at the worlds.
Vollmer won the women's 100-meter butterfly in 56.87 seconds for her first world championship gold. Alicia Coutts of Australia was second in 56.94 and Chinese swimmer Ying Lu (57.06) was third.
China's Shiwen Ye, charging from fifth in the final leg of the race, claimed the 200-meter individual medley in 2:08.10, just ahead of Coutts (2:09.00). U.S. swimmer Ariana Kukors, who won the event in 2009 with a world record time, was third in 2:09.12.
Alexander Dale Oen claimed Norway's first men's FINA World Championships medal with a win in the 100-meter breaststroke. He touched in 58.71. Italian Fabio Scozzoli (59.42) was second and South African Cameron van der Burgh (59.49) was third.
