Lani Pallister and Kaylee McKeown set world information at brief course swimming World Cup in Toronto

Lani Pallister and Kaylee McKeown have continued Australia’s file breaking run on the brief course swimming World Cup in Toronto.

Pallister adopted up her Australian file within the 400m freestyle on day one by posting a world file within the 800m on Saturday, native time.

Her time of seven:54.00 additionally took greater than three seconds off the earlier file set in 2022 by American nice Katie Ledecky.

McKeown broke her personal world file within the 200m backstroke only a week after setting the earlier mark within the World Cup occasion in Westmont.

Pallister dominated the 800m, profitable by greater than 15 seconds forward of New Zealanders Erika Fairwather and Caitlin Deans.

The Australian went out onerous, posting a midway cut up that may have positioned her second within the 400m, solely behind her personal profitable time and two seconds underneath world file tempo.

She then stretched the benefit additional within the third 200m earlier than closing out in type.

In her record-breaking swim, McKeown touched in 1:57.33, sooner than her 1:57.87 from per week in the past to edge out Regan Smith from the US who additionally swam slightly below McKeown’s earlier mark with 1:57.86.

Fellow American Phoebe Bacon closed out the rostrum however was greater than three seconds behind the Aussie star.

McKeown’s win places her second within the total World Cup standings and on high for the Toronto meet.

AAP