Swimming World Cup: Kaylee McKeown breaks second world record in 24 hours
Australian swimming sensation Kaylee McKeown has capped off a remarkable World Cup, with her domination of women’s elite backstroke reaching legendary levels.
Australian swimming sensation Kaylee McKeown has broken a second world record in 24 hours on what was supposed to be an end of season European holiday.
A day after breaking the 50 metre record to become the first female to hold the world records in every backstroke distance, the 22-year-old lowered her own mark in the 100m.
Racing in the final leg of the World Cup in Budapest, McKeown blew her opposition to smithereens to stop the clock at an eye-popping 57.33 seconds.
That wiped 0.12 seconds off the previous record she set at the 2021 Australian Olympic trials.
The margin – a big chunk by swimming standards – was exactly the same amount of time she lopped off the 50m mark the previous day when reaching the wall in 28.86.
McKeown’s domination of women’s elite backstroke is already reaching legendary levels.
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The reigning Olympic champion in the 100m and 200m and also won the 50m-100m-200m treble at this year’s world championships in Japan and has continued her rich vein of form on the end of year World Cup series in Europe.
She has won so many races she is now certain to be named this week as World Aquatics’ best female swimmer of 2023.
But her main goal is next year’s Paris Olympics where she is bidding to join Dawn Fraser as the only Australian female swimmer to win back-to-back individual titles.
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