It took him almost eight weeks to recover, a period of time the athlete has described as "fairly difficult" as it marked the first season in four or five years in which he didn't recordapersonalbest.
Just as she did in winning the 800m on Monday, Holmes judged the race to perfection, going wide and surging for home over the last 250 meters to win in three minutes 57.90 seconds, apersonalbest and a British record.
Ye Shiwen took seconds off her personalbest to break the world record and win a gold medal in the 400m medley on Saturday, swimming faster in the last 50m than the winner of the men's event.
Murphy improved Nocher's national record by almost three seconds as she clocked 4:02.86 in Eindhoven while the Ulster woman also set apersonalbest of 4:03.97.