Swimming: Aussie Kaylee McKeown breaks the 50m backstroke world record at the World Cup in Budapest.
Aussie Kaylee McKeown sets world record | 01:03Kaylee McKeown has done it again, breaking her second swimming world record in as many days as her sensational form continues.
In a blistering swim, McKeown touched in a time of 57.33 seconds to shave 0.12sec off the global mark she set in 2021 at the Australian trials for the Tokyo Olympics.The 22-year-old is surely now a certainty to win the Female World Swimmer of the Year, completing an Aussie hat-trick after Emma McKeon and Ariarne Titmus won the award in the last two years.
Kaylee McKeown has done it again, breaking her own world record. She is just the second swimmer to hold all three backstroke world records after American Lenny Krayzelburg broke the 50-100-200 treble at the 1999 Pan Pacific Championships. McKeown won gold in the 100m and 200m backstroke in Tokyo, and will be favoured to repeat that double at next year’s Paris Olympics.
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