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American Gretchen Walsh prolonged her torrid run of world information by breaking her personal short-course document within the 50m butterfly at a World Aquatics Swimming World Cup meet in Carmel, Indiana.
Walsh swam 23.72 seconds, beating her earlier world document of 23.94 from final December’s World Short Course Championships.
Walsh, who this time final yr had by no means raced in a short-course meters pool (25 meters), has since damaged a complete of 13 world information in brief course between particular person and relay occasions.
Eleven of them got here ultimately December’s worlds, together with two within the 50m butterfly at that meet. She owns the seven quickest occasions in historical past within the occasion.
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Also Saturday, Shaine Casas broke his personal American document within the 200m particular person medley to upset Olympic gold medalist, world document holder and coaching associate Léon Marchand of France.
Casas swam 1:49.43 — eight hundredths higher than his American document from final December’s worlds — to beat Marchand by three tenths. Marchand, who trains with Casas in Austin, Texas, owns the world document of 1:48.88.
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Shaine Casas bested his personal American document and staved off world document holder Leon Marchand for the win within the males’s 200m particular person medley on the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.
The three-stop World Cup sequence — Carmel, adopted the following two weekends by Westmont, Illinois, and Toronto — is held in 25-meter swimming pools reasonably than 50-meter swimming pools used for the Olympics.
Swimmers accumulate factors primarily based on their outcomes and occasions with general girls’s and males’s champions topped after the ultimate cease.
In 2024, American Kate Douglass and Marchand gained the ladies’s and males’s titles, respectively.
While Marchand is racing in Carmel, he’s not anticipated to compete in Westmont or Toronto. Douglass is anticipated to contest all three stops.
Canadian Summer McIntosh, who gained 4 particular person gold medals at this previous summer season’s long-course World Championships, withdrew earlier than the Carmel cease attributable to sickness however might nonetheless race Westmont and Toronto.
The Carmel World Cup ends Sunday with preliminary heats at 10 a.m. ET and finals at 6 p.m., each reside on Peacock.
Katie Ledecky and Luca Urlando had been honored with Athlete of the Year awards on the 2025 USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards.
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