But Glasgow swimmer Renwick, 22, came back to win in a time of 1:47.88, ahead of Australia's Kenrick Monk and Thomas Fraser-Holmes.

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Although there are conflicting theories, he is believed to died on 1 March in 601AD and the first biography of him was written some 400 years later by a monk called Rhigyfarch.

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