Marrit Steenbergen Blasts 51.68 World Record within the 100 Freestyle

67th SETTE COLLI TROPHY

Dutch sprinter Marrit Steenbergen blasted a brand new world document within the girls’s 100 freestyle, swimming 51.68 to take three hundredths off Sarah Sjostrom‘s 51.71 world document from 2017.

WOMEN’S 100 FREE – FINAL

• World Record – 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2017
• World Junior Record – 52.70, Penny Oleksiak (CAN), 2016
• European Record – 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2017
• European Junior Record – 53.61, Freya Anderson (GBR), 2018
• Italian Record – 53.01, Sara Curtis, 2025
• Meet Record – 52.57, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2024

GOLD – Marrit Steenbergen (NED), 51.68 **New World Record
SILVER  – Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 52.52
BRONZE – Sara Curtis (ITA), 52.69 **New Italian Record

Steenbergen made the flip in 2nd place, splitting 24.98 to take a seat 4 hundredths behind Siobhan Haughey‘s 24.94 in 1st. Steenbergen got here residence in a blistering 26.70 to earn the win, dropping two tenths from her 51.86 final month to cease the clock in 51.68.

She took three hundredths off Sarah Sjostrom‘s 2017 world and European record time of 51.71, and almost a second off Sjostrom’s meet document time of 52.57 from 2024.

Steenbergen got here into the season with a time of 52.26 from the 2024 World Championships, marking greater than half-a-second dropped this season alone. She first dropped to 52.13 on the first leg of the Mare Nostrum tour in Monaco earlier than blasting the 2nd quickest time in historical past, 51.86 just some days later in Canet.

Split Comparison

Top Ten Women’s LCM 100 Freestyle All-Time Performances

1. Marrit Steenbergen (NED) — 51.68 (2026)
2. Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) – 51.71 (2017)
3. Anna Moesch (USA) – 51.94, 2026
4. Emma McKeon (AUS) – 51.96 (2021)
5. Siobhan Haughey (HKG) – 52.02 (2023)
6. Cate Campbell – 52.03 (2018)
7. Simone Manuel – 52.04 (2019)
8. Britta Steffen – 52.07 (2009)
9. Mollie O’Callaghan – 52.08 (2023)
10. Bronte Campbell – 52.27 (2018)