FLASH! Kate Douglass Crushes 200m Breaststroke s/c WR In 2:12.72
Kate Douglass destroyed her 200m breaststroke short-course world record in 2:12.72 at the final leg of the World Cup in Singapore.
The American set a global mark of 2:14.16 at last week’s stop in Incheon, South Korea, where she downed Rebecca Soni’s longstanding standard.
But on Thursday she obliterated that, bypassing 2:13 altogether to take the WR and sweep the 200 breaststroke across all three stops to win the triple crown.
Douglass, who won the 200m breaststroke among four medals at the Olympics in Paris, was inside world record pace throughout, by 0.21 at 50m, 0.68 at 100 and 0.87 at 150 before she swam further away from the WR line to eventually slice a hefty 1.44secs from her own mark.
Splits: 30.47/1:04.07/1:38.33/2:12.72
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