Ten-year-old girl competes at World Championships

“The other swimmers are often surprised, they ask me my name and how old I am and then they are like, ’Are you swimming here?’"

A 10-year-old has set a new record as the youngest swimmer to compete at a World Championships after Alzain Tareq from Bahrain took her place in the 50m butterfly heats in Kazan.

Tareq, who has a Scottish mother, finished last in her race, clocking 41.13 seconds, and was the slowest of all the 64 participants.