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Sports editorial, Oct 20 (EFE).- Australian Kaylee McKeown established a new world record in the 50 backstroke after winning this Friday in the Budapest meeting, the third and final stage of the Swimming World Cup, with a time of 26.86 seconds.
McKeown, current world distance champion, reduced by 12 seconds the previous universal record held by the Chinese Xiang Liu with a time of 26.98 seconds from 2018.
The Australian swimmer, who last week in Athens was only 4 hundredths away from the world record, did not waste the new opportunity and set a new universal limit this Friday in the Hungarian capital.
In the lead from the beginning of the race, thanks to a sensational start, she did not give any of her rivals any chance, as reflected by the 82 hundredths in which she surpassed the Canadians Ingrid Wilm and Kylie Masse, who shared second place with a record of 27.68 seconds.
A world record to add to those that Kaylee McKeown, 22, holds in the 100 backstroke with a time of 57.45 seconds and in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:03.14 minutes.
Records that confirm the oceanic, gold in the 100 and 200 backstroke at the Tokyo Olympic Games and winner of the 50, 100 and 200 backstroke at the World Championships held last summer in Fukuoka, as the undisputed “queen” of the world backstroke.
Sports editorial, Oct 20 (EFE).- The Chinese swimmer Haiyang Qin once again made it clear that today he has no rival in the breaststroke events, after winning this Friday in the 100 meters final of the Budapest meeting, third and last stage of the World Cup, with a time of 57.82 seconds.
Thirteen hundredths more than the time that Qin, current world champion in the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke, set two weeks ago in Berlin, the first stage of the World Cup, where he won with a time of 57.69 seconds, but enough to impose itself clearly.
As reflected by the 86 hundredths in which Haiyang Qin surpassed the Dutch Arno Kamminga, silver with a time of 58.68, and the 1.29 seconds in which he improved the mark of the American Nic Fink, bronze with 59.21 seconds.
Left off the podium was the until now undisputed “king” of the breaststroke, the British Adam Peaty, who had to settle for fourth place with a time of 59.25, almost a second and a half more -1.43- than Qin.
And Peaty, current Olympic champion and universal record holder, seemed willing, unlike what happened in the last two weeks in Berlin and Athens, to question Haiyang Qin’s triumph.
In fact, Adam Peaty, who holds the fourteen best marks of all time in the 100 backstroke, was the fastest at the start, which did not prevent Quin from overcoming the first 50 meters at the front of the test with a time of 26.88 seconds, 37 hundredths less than the British.
An advantage that skyrocketed in the second length that Haiyang Qin completed in 30.94 seconds, the fastest of all the participants, to sign a total time of 57.82 seconds, compared to the 32.00 that Adam Peaty used to swim the second 50 meters of the test .
A performance that, however, did not allow Qin to improve the World Cup record that he established on October 6 in Berlin with a mark of 57.69 seconds, the complete opposite of his compatriot Yufei Zhang, who set a new record. of the competition in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:05.65 minutes.
Zhang, the current Olympic distance champion, lowered by 68 hundredths the previous World Cup record held by American Cammile Adams with a time of 2:06.44 since 2015.
Dutch Tes Schouten also achieved a new competition record after winning the 200 breaststroke final with a time of 2:21.52 minutes, 61 hundredths less than the record she set two weeks ago when she swam in Berlin in a time trial. from 2:22.13.
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