Kate Douglass Takes Down World Record in 100 Freestyle

FLASH! Kate Douglass Takes Down Cate Campbell’s World Record in 100 Freestyle at World Cup

As a collegiate star on the University of Virginia, Kate Douglass established herself as a multi-event marvel. That id was proved on Sunday night time when Douglass clocked the newest world report of her profession, this time within the 100-meter freestyle on the World Cup leg in Westmont, Illinois.

After incomes the highest seed for the ultimate, Douglass put every little thing into her night time swim and emerged with a worldwide commonplace of fifty.19 for the 100 freestyle. That time reduce .06 off the earlier report of fifty.25, set in 2017 by Australian Cate Campbell. Douglass’ earlier finest, in accordance with the World Aquatics database, was the 50.73 she recorded eventually 12 months’s World Short Course Championships in Budapest.

Already the world-record holder within the 200 breaststroke, Douglass confirmed her versatility by excelling in a sprint-freestyle self-discipline. She pressed the tempo from the beginning, splitting 11.27 for the opening 25 meters and going 23.88 by means of the halfway level of the race. Douglass was .33 forward of Campbell’s cut up from her world-record assault, and that early velocity proved to be crucial on the end.

“I feel like my first two races of the stop, I wasn’t super happy with,” Douglass mentioned, referring to the 100 IM and 200 breaststroke. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to go faster in (the 100 free). I had a good prelims swim and so after I watched a few of my friends break world records, I thought I was just going to go for it tonight. Go out fast and see if I can hold on.”

Douglass’ world report was the fourth of the Westmont cease, as Regan Smith tied her report within the 100 backstroke on Saturday, when Mollie O’Callaghan broke the worldwide mark within the 200 freestyle. Earlier Sunday night time, Kaylee McKeown set a world report within the 200 backstroke, an occasion that noticed Smith additionally go beneath the earlier world commonplace.