It was not so way back that Australian famous person Kaylee McKeown might have claimed all six backstroke world data throughout long- and short-course swimming pools.
Now, she is left with two after American backstroke star Regan Smith claimed the 200-metre short-course file on the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Singapore.
Smith, who McKeown beat to gold within the 100m and 200m again on the Paris Olympics, completed in 1 minute and 58.83 seconds, taking 0.11 seconds off the earlier mark, held by the Australian.
Australian Iona Anderson completed third in 2:01.98.
Smith had already additional lowered her 100m backstroke mark with a 54.27 the day earlier than, marking a massively profitable meet.
Regan Smith received $US10,000 for breaking the world file. (Getty Pictures: Yong Teck Lim)
“We’ve been having a lot enjoyable over the course of those three stops,” Smith instructed media on the World Cup collection.
“It has been a blast. This can be a World Cup, it’s so a lot enjoyable and I wish to maintain doing it in future years.”
McKeown had competed on the primary day of the primary leg of the three-leg World Cup in Shanghai.
There, she beat Smith within the 50m backstroke in a brand new World Cup main time of 25.36, however withdrew from additional competitors to prioritise her psychological well being.
“I wish to thank World Aquatics for the chance to return out and race at World Cups, it has been a lot enjoyable right here in Shanghai,” McKeown wrote on Instagram in October.
“Placing my psychological well being first I’ve determined to chop my expertise quick.
“As an athlete it is so vital to hearken to your coronary heart and to know when sufficient is sufficient.
“Time for a effectively overdue break.”
Final 12 months, McKeown broke a number of world data and received the general ladies’s title through the World Cup collection.
Nevertheless, regardless of her beautiful efficiency in Paris, McKeown was again in motion quickly after, competing within the Australian short-course Nationals in September.
“I used to be going a bit stir loopy, sitting at house,” McKeown stated in Adelaide.
“So I made a decision to leap again in two and a bit weeks in the past and [I am] simply rising the classes.”
It proved a good selection, as she broke the just about five-year-old 100m short-course backstroke world file, taking 0.33 off compatriot Minna Atherton’s mark.
Then she was non-committal about competing within the World Quick Course Championships in December, saying she wouldn’t put any stress on herself.
McKeown was named within the squad of 24 for the Championships, set to be held in Budapest, which incorporates 10 Paris Olympians and eight debutants.
Kaylee McKeown beat Regan Smith in each the 100m and 200m backstroke in Paris. (Getty Pictures: Maddie Meyer)
Quick-course swimming takes place in a 25-metre pool, making for extra turns and sooner instances than a long-course 50m pool, which is the dimensions of pool the Olympics takes place in.
McKeown now holds the non-Olympic 50m backstroke world file and the long-course 200m again, however having claimed their 12 months’s two main prizes in Paris, she is unlikely to be too phased by shedding her data.
Smith, however, who broke McKeown’s 100m long-course mark earlier than the Olympics, was bullish.
“I wish to go to the short-course worlds and have simply as a lot enjoyable as I had right here.
“I feel life is just too quick to take stuff like this so significantly. I have been having a lot enjoyable, and that is what swimming must be. And so I feel my purpose at short-course worlds is to swim quick and revel in it.”
Elsewhere in Singapore, Aussie Isaac Cooper received the boys’s 50m again in 22.61, Mo Johnson completed third within the 800m, whereas Brittany Castelluzzo received the 200m butterfly and got here third within the 200m free.
There have been loads of different Paris Olympians in motion as effectively, together with French hero Léon Marchand, who swept the medley occasions, breaking the world file within the 200m IM.
In the meantime, Kate Douglass of America received 4 occasions, together with breaking the world file within the 200m breaststroke as she edged Smith for the general World Cup title and a cheque for $US100,000 ($152,000).
