Mollie O’Callaghan breaks 200m file – once more – to finish gorgeous week at Swimming World Cup | Swimming

Mollie O’Callaghan has capped an excellent week on the Swimming World Cup in Toronto, setting a brand new short-course world file within the 200m ladies’s freestyle. 

The 21-year-old Australian obliterated a star-studded subject to the touch in 1:49.36 on Friday, simply seven days after setting a then new mark of 1:49.77. 

O’Callaghan swam away from compatriot Lani Pallister, who equalled her private better of 1:51.75, and New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather (1:52.71) for an all Oceanian podium.

In the aftermath of all-time Australian swimming nice Ariarne Titmus’s retirement at age 25, O’Callaghan produced an ideal tonic for the nation in a surprising efficiency.

O’Callaghan, who already holds 5 Olympic gold medals, flew out of the blocks and was three-quarters of a second up after the primary 50m. She maintained world-record tempo all through, barring the final 50m. 

The triumph earned O’Callaghan a $A15,000 bonus for taking out the Triple Crown, after she gained in any respect three World Cup stops within the US this month, and one other $A15,000 for her world file.

O’Callaghan will now flip her consideration to the 100m free the place she may pose a risk to Triple Crown contender Kate Douglass of the US. 

The meet is proving to be massively profitable for Australia with Kaylee McKeown and Pallister scorching their opposition.

After setting a short-course world file (1:57.87) to take out the 200m backstroke then a World Cup and nationwide file (25.35) to win the 50m, McKeown adopted it up with victory within the 100m in 54.49 seconds.

She shed 0.07 seconds off her earlier finest to topple the world record-holder Regan Smith (54.57).

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McKeown went out in 12.72, 0.34 seconds sooner than Smith, however the American fought again within the second 25m, earlier than taking three-tenths off the Australian within the third size.

But McKeown got here residence in 13.89 within the remaining 25m to forestall her longtime rival from successful the Triple Crown within the occasion.

Pallister, in the meantime, made the ladies’s 400 freestyle occasion hers in a brand new World Cup file time of three:51.87.

She produced the third quickest swim in historical past, with solely American Summer McIntosh and Chinese star Li Bingjie having gone faster.

Pallister’s first 200m was in 1:54.10 and she or he got here residence in 1:57.77 to beat Fairweather (3:56.12) and Freya Colbert (3:58.46).