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The United States women ended the Budapest World Championships on a huge note as the women broke the 400 medley relay world record with a 3:51.55 to break the 3:52.05 from the 2012 Olympics. Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Kelsi Worrell and Simone Manuel broke the record that was held by the all-star cast of Missy Franklin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and Allison Schmitt.
Comparative splits:
- Baker (58.54), King (1:04.48), Worrell (56.30), Manuel (52.23)
- Franklin (58.50), Soni (1:04.82), Vollmer (55.48), Schmitt (53.25)
The United States has now won 37 total medals in the pool at the World Championships, surpassing the record total of 36 from the 2007 Worlds in Melbourne ten years ago and the 1978 Worlds in West Berlin.
Russia broke the European Record for the silver medal as Anastasia Fesikova (58.96), Yulia Efimova (1:04.03), Svetlana Chimrova (56.99) and Veronika Popova (53.40) broke the record with a 3:53.38 for silver. The record surpasses Denmark’s 3:55.01 from Rio last summer. The breast split from Efimova is the fastest breaststroke split by a woman in history.
Australia won the bronze medal with Emily Seebohm (58.53), Taylor McKeown (1:06.29), Emma McKeon (56.78) and Bronte Campbell (52.69) at 3:54.29. They just held off Canada (3:54.86) and Sweden (3:55.28). Sarah Sjostrom (55.03) also had the fastest butterfly split of all-time.
China (3:57.69), Great Britain (3:59.51) and Italy (3:59.98) also competed in the championship final.
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Simone had had a great meet! Like an awesome relay swimmer too(jenny Thompson-esqe!)
Awesome! Way to get the job done! Congrats!
Hell yeah!!!! Great swimming!!!
Ladies are killing it right now! Way to go – congrats Team USA.
Go! Team USA!
Congratulations ladys
Simone Manuel results: Gold 100m free, Bronze 50m free New American Record 23.97, anchor the Gold 400m medley New World record. That’s World Class for a classy lady. Congratulations on your world record performance at the 2017 Fina World Championship.
What a team!!