Kate Douglass Smashes Personal World Record With 23.19 50 Freestyle

2026 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

Women’s 50m Freestyle – Final

Top 8 Finishers

1. Kate Douglass (USA) — 23.19 **NEW WORLD RECORD
2. Gretchen Walsh (USA) — 23.74
3. Meg Harris (AUS) — 23.89
4. Taylor Ruck (CAN) — 24.23
5. Olivia Wunsch (AUS) — 24.57
6. Kayla Sanchez (PHI) — 24.86
7. Cheng Yujie (CHN) — 24.96
8. Rikako Ikee (JPN) — 25.30

Kate Douglass broke the World Record within the girls’s 50 freestyle for the second time right this moment, dropping from her time of a 23.49 in prelims as she touched in a 23.19 in finals tonight.

This is the third time that Douglass has swam to a brand new World Record within the 50 freestyle this summer time as she initially broke the report swimming a 23.59 on the Pro Series cease in Indianapolis again in July. Her Virginia coaching accomplice Gretchen Walsh lowered that report with a 23.55 in June however Douglass claimed the report again this morning together with her 23.49 earlier than posting a 23.19 tonight.

With her time tonight, Douglass now has three of the highest 5 performances all-time within the girls’s 50 freestyle.

All-Time Top Performances, Women’s LCM 50 Free

1. Kate Douglass, 23.19, 2026
2. Kate Douglass, 23.49, 2026
3. Gretchen Walsh, 23.55, 2026
4. Kate Douglass, 23.59, 2026
5. Gretchen Walsh, 23.60, 2026

The 50 free is the primary of three occasions tonight for Douglass as she additionally swims the person 200 breast and the freestyle leg on the ladies’s 4×100 medley relay to shut the session and meet in Irvine.