What Was the Best Women’s Long Course World Record of 2025?

What Was the Best Women’s Long Course World Record of 2025? 

During the previous 12 months, 5 girls’s world information had been set within the long-course pool. Three of the information had been established by Canadian star Summer McIntosh, who went sooner than anybody in historical past within the 400-meter freestyle, 200 particular person medley and 400 particular person medley. McIntosh simply missed a fourth international commonplace, as she clocked 2:01.99 within the 200 butterfly to nudge the longstanding report of China’s Liu Zige (2:01.81).

During her report tear, McIntosh churned out a time of three:54.18 within the 400 freestyle and registered a efficiency of two:05.70 within the 200 particular person medley. Her last report was a 4:23.65 within the 400 medley.

The different two long-course world information on the yr had been delivered by American athletes whereas racing on the Fort Lauderdale cease of the USA Swimming Pro Series. At that competitors, Katie Ledecky took down her personal world report within the 800 freestyle, a mark that had stood because the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Ledecky coated her 16 laps in 8:04.12, an effort that lower .67 from her earlier better of 8:04.79.

Meanwhile, Gretchen Walsh additional flexed her muscle within the 100 butterfly, the place she went 54.60. Walsh is the one feminine to ever break the 55-second barrier within the 100 fly, the place she owns the eight-fastest occasions in historical past. Three of these performances are sub-55.

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