2024 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – INCHEON
Regan Smith unleashed the quickest swim in historical past on Friday on the World Cup cease in Incheon, breaking Kaylee McKeown‘s less-than-a-month-old world report within the last of the ladies’s 100 backstroke (SCM).
Smith, 22, blasted her method to a time of 54.41, knocking 15 one-hundredths off McKeown’s report of 54.56 set 29 days earlier on the Australian Quick Course Championships in late September.
The swim for Smith comes after she tied the American File and moved to #2 all-time within the 100 again in the course of the opening leg of the circuit final week in Shanghai, having gone 54.89 to match the time achieved by Gretchen Walsh earlier within the day.
Along with reducing McKeown’s world report and the American File, Smith additionally broke her personal World Cup File (54.89) set in Shanghai. That mark had beforehand stood at 55.23 from Japan’s Shiho Sakai in 2009.
Smith was really slower than she was final week in Shanghai on the 50, handing over 26.67, however stormed house greater than half a second faster in 27.74, out-splitting McKeown on each of her 50s within the course of.
Break up Comparability
| McKeown, Previous WR | Smith, Previous AR | Smith, New WR |
| 26.69 | 26.59 | 26.67 |
| 54.56 (27.87) | 54.89 (28.30) | 54.41 (27.74) |
Within the final month, the ladies’s 100 again all-time rankings have seen a large shakeup. Previous to McKeown’s world report swim, Minna Atherton was the one swimmer in historical past having damaged 55 seconds, and now there have been 4, with Smith doing it twice in back-to-back weeks.
All-Time Performers, Girls’s 100 Backstroke (SCM)
- Regan Smith (USA), 54.41 –2024
- Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 54.56 – 2024
- Minna Atherton (AUS) / Gretchen Walsh (USA), 54.89 – 2019 / 2024
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- Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 55.03 – 2014
- Olivia Smoliga (USA), 55.04 – 2020
- Kira Toussaint (NED), 55.17 – 2019
- Louise Hansson (SWE), 55.20 – 2021
- Kylie Masse (CAN), 55.22 – 2021
- Shiho Sakai (JPN), 55.23 – 2009
That is Smith’s second 100 backstroke world report of the yr, having lowered the all-time mark within the lengthy course pool on the U.S. Olympic Trials in June in 57.13—additionally beforehand a McKeown report.
Friday’s swim was Smith’s first SCM world report, having solely raced the format at a handful of World Cups in 2016 and 2017 previous to the 2024 World Cup.
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Smith gained the occasion decisively over Canadian Ingrid Wilm (56.14), whereas American Beata Nelson (56.41) rounded out the rostrum.
On Thursday, Smith gained the 50 again (25.71) and was the runner-up within the 200 fly in Incheon. She is scheduled to swim the 200 again on Saturday.
