Adam Peaty returned to the world stage with 100m breaststroke bronze in Melbourne.
The triple Olympic champion touched the wall in a time of 56.25 seconds to claim third behind newly crowned world champion Nic Fink and Italy's Nicolo Martinenghi.
In his first short course world championships since Doha 2014, Peaty returned with his usual tenacity to claim a podium spot in Australia.
And with Paris less than two years away, the 27-year-old is using the result fuel his return to the top.
"I'm angry with bronze," he told FINA.
"I don't get bronze often, so it's a bit of a weird one on the Wikipedia.
"It's my first competition since the Olympics, the Commonwealths was just a trial really, after my foot (injury).
"I'm disappointed but I'm not going to allow myself to be. I've put myself in a really hard block, it is what it is, I am what I am.
"I'm looking forward to a long course season after this week and I've got to be uncomfortable, I've got to be challenged, if I'm going to challenge that world record.
"This is the fight I need and I just feel pure anger, which is when I feel very dangerous."
Following the Tokyo Olympics, the 27-year-old has spent months out of the pool, sparkling under the Strictly glitterball and struggling with a fractured foot.
Peaty's medal is the first piece of silverware for Great Britain at the World Swimming Championships (25m), with the breaststroker going close to another bronze in the 4x50m mixed medley relay on day two of competition.
Joined by Medi Harris, Ben Proud and Anna Hopkin, the British team finished fourth in a time of 1:37.07, with disqualifications for Germany and the Netherlands bumping them up from sixth.
With an 11-strong team out in Australia, Britain have seen a cluster of sixth place finishes in the first three days of competition.
Olympian Dan Jervis finished sixth in the men's 1500m freestyle on day one whilst Abbie Wood equalled the effort in the women's 200m individual medley.
In the women's 4x50m freestyle, Wood and Hopkin joined forces with Imogen Clark and Isabella Hindley to clinch sixth in a new British record of 1:37.11.
Two-time Olympic champion Tom Dean snuck into a dramatic 100m freestyle final, posting a personal best time of 46.11 in finish eighth.
Peaty begins his quest for 50m glory on Saturday as Proud looks to defend his 50m freestyle title.
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