And the once wayward Wallace won the most demanding of disciplines in style. Two lengths of the pool in each of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle drains the most physically powerful. He turned after the butterfly and backstroke legs trailing in fourth. But a hugely impressive breaststroke leg propelled him up to second. Even so, with 50 metres to go of the freestyle section he still seemed to have too much to do. Spurred on by a roof-threatening roar, however, he soared past Thomas Fraser-Holmes of Australia to take the title in a record-setting 4 min 11.20 sec.