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Former Linton Village College pupil Angharad Evans was pipped to an Olympic medal as she came sixth in the 100m breaststroke final tonight. The 21-year-old from Little Abington, who qualified with a stunning semi-final showing on Sunday, finished 0.26s behind third-placed Mona McSharry of Ireland with a time of 1:05.85. Evans reached the halfway mark in third place after she made a bright start to the event, but McSharry, Tang Qianting of China and South Africa’s Tatjana Smith took the places on the podium. “It was my first year swimming internationally with the senior team so I felt a lot of …

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