Hubert Kos, Josh Liendo break swimming world data at Toronto World Cup

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After 5 girls lowered world data over the primary two swimming World Cups, the lads broke by means of on the primary day of the final cease in Toronto on Thursday.

Olympic gold medalist Hubert Kos of Hungary smashed a 10-year-old brief course world report within the 200m backstroke. Olympic silver medalist Josh Liendo of Canada clipped the 100m butterfly world report in entrance of residence followers.

Each three-day World Cup cease is held in a 25-meter, short-course pool. That differs from the Olympics and summer season World Championships, that are held in 50-meter swimming pools. There are separate world data in brief course.

At the primary two World Cups in Carmel, Indiana, and Westmont, Illinois, Kate Douglass, Regan Smith, Gretchen Walsh, Kaylee McKeown and Mollie O’Callaghan all broke world data. No males did.

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Kos emphatically modified that on the Pan Am Sports Centre. He clocked 1:45.12, crushing the earlier 200m again report of 1:45.63 set by Australian Mitch Larkin in 2015. Kos beforehand got here inside two hundredths of Larkin’s report on the 2024 World Short Course Championships.

It was the second-oldest males’s particular person short-course world report behind the 400m freestyle report set by Frenchman Yannick Agnel in 2012.

About quarter-hour after Kos, Liendo swam the 100m fly in 47.68, shaving three hundredths off Swiss Noe Ponti’s world report from 2024. Liendo went 1.88 seconds quicker than he did final week in Westmont.

In girls’s occasions, Olympic champion Kate Douglass took the 200m breaststroke in 2:13.45, the third-fastest time in historical past. Douglass owns the highest 5 occasions, together with the world report of two:12.50 from the 2024 World Short Course Championships.

Australian Lani Pallister swam the third-fastest girls’s 400m free in historical past — 3:51.87. That slots in behind the final two world data: 3:50.25 from Canadian Summer McIntosh and three:51.30 from China’s Li Bingjie.

The World Cup continues Friday with prelims (10 a.m. ET) and finals (6 p.m.) stay on Peacock.

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