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Kaylee McKeown is a robust prospect for Australia’s Olympic group for Tokyo subsequent 12 months.© AFP
Olympic hopeful Kaylee McKeown set a brand new 200m backstroke short-course world report on the Australian nationwide championships, officers mentioned on Saturday. The teenager clocked a blistering 1:58.94 to smash Hungarian Katinka Hosszu’s 2014 mark of 1:59.23. “Short-course is something we don’t get to very often so I was excited to see what I could put up after some solid training this year,” mentioned McKeown.”I headed over to my teammates and my coach and they said, ‘you just got a world-record, and I was like, what?’ I didn’t actually know till a few minutes later.” The Australian short-course championships are being held in digital format this 12 months as a result of Covid-19, with swimmers competing on the identical time in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Hobart.
The titles began on Thursday, with McKeown setting her report in Brisbane on Friday night, though Swimming Australia solely tweeted the end result on Saturday.
The 19-year-old is a robust prospect for Australia’s Olympic group for Tokyo subsequent 12 months, having gained silver within the 200m backstroke finally 12 months’s long-course world championships in South Korea.
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