DOHA – Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom sizzled in the women’s 50 fly with a meet record time at the FINA World Short Course Championships. Watch Race Video
Sjostrom threw down a winning effort of 24.58, lowering the meet mark of 24.87 set by compatriot Therese Alshammar back in 2010. That’s the top time in the world this year as well, undercutting Inge Dekker’s 24.59 from the Dubai stop of the FINA World Cup.
Sjostrom becomes the third Swedish woman to ever win this event, joining Alshammar (2006, 2010) and Anna-Karin Kammerling (2002).
Denmark’s Jeanette Ottesen raced her way to silver in a time of 24.71, better than her third-ranked season best of 24.88 from the Danish Open Championships.
Dekker, meanwhile, couldn’t replicate her World Cup speed as she settled for bronze with a 24.73.
China’s Lu Ying, the defending champion, took fourth in 25.21. She won in 2012 with a 25.14, demonstrating just how much faster this event has progressed since then.
Italy’s Silvia Di Pietro (25.38), Poland’s Aleksandra Urbanczyk (25.65), France’s Melanie Henique (25.75) and Brazil’s Daynara De Paula (25.94) finished fifth through eighth in the finale.
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- Women’s 100 free finals
- Men’s 50 fly semis
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- Men’s 200 breast finals
- Women’s 50 fly finals
- Men’s 400 free finals
- Women’s 100 breast semis
- Women’s 100 IM finals
- Men’s 50 free finals
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