Source :- PERTH NOW NEWS
American Kate Douglass has reclaimed the women’s 50m freestyle world record, clocking 23.49 seconds in the preliminaries at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine, California.
Douglass and fellow American Gretchen Walsh, her training partner and former University of Virginia teammate, have traded the record this summer.
Walsh, who’d set the previous mark of 23.55 at the Sette Colli meet on June 28, posted the second-fastest time in Saturday morning’s preliminaries, finishing in 23.78 in her heat after Douglass, with the pair set to meet again in the evening final.
Douglass also helped break the world record in the mixed 4x100m medley relay on the opening night of the meet, alongside Walsh, Van Mathias and Will Modglin.
