Three months after successful her first Olympic gold medal, American famous person Kate Douglass has added one other marquee accomplishment to her resume, setting the primary particular person world file of her profession.
Competing on the second of three legs of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup circuit in Incheon, South Korea, Douglass clocked a time of two:14.16 within the girls’s 200 breaststroke (SCM), reducing the 15-year-old world file of two:14.57 set by fellow American Rebecca Soni again in 2009.
Douglass’ earlier greatest time stood at 2:15.77, set on the 2022 SC World Championships the place she received the title.
On the opening leg of the World Cup in Shanghai, she completed simply shy of that point in 2:15.96.
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Soni’s earlier file was set in December 2009, lower than a month earlier than the polyurethane “tremendous fits” had been banned on January 1, 2010. With Douglass erasing that mark, just one girls’s SCM world file, Therese Alshammar‘s 24.38 within the 50 fly, stays from the super-suit period.
Douglass was underneath world file tempo the complete method, out-splitting Soni on every of the primary three 50s earlier than giving a while again coming residence.
WR Cut up Comparability
| Douglass — 2024 Incheon World Cup |
Soni — 2009 Duel In The Pool |
| 30.68 | 31.05 |
| 1:04.75 (34.07) | 1:05.18 (34.13) |
| 1:39.20 (34.45) | 1:40.00 (34.82) |
| 2:14.16 (34.96) | 2:14.57 (34.57) |
In Incheon, Douglass received by greater than 5 seconds, with Australia’s Tara Kinder ending because the runner-up in 2:19.21.
Lower than half an hour later, Douglass was again within the water within the girls’s 100 IM, successful in 56.97 to ascertain a private greatest and enhance her time because the #3 performer in historical past.
The 22-year-old received all 4 occasions she raced in Shanghai (200 breast, 50 fly, 100/200 IM), and might be aiming to take action the identical over the following two days in Incheon.
Previous to the World Cup, Douglass received gold within the 200 breast on the Paris Olympic Video games, and added a second gold on the ladies’s 4×100 medley relay, and a pair of silvers within the 200 IM and 4×100 free relay.
Along with being the brand new world file holder within the 200 breast briefly course meters, Douglass can be the quickest swimmer in historical past briefly course yards (2:01.29), and ranks #4 all-time in lengthy course meters (2:19.24).
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