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Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown breaks 200m backstroke short course world record – The Guardian

The teenage Olympic hopeful smashed the six-year-old record at the ‘virtual’ national championships in Brisbane

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Teenage Olympic hopeful Kaylee McKeown has set the virtual Australian national short-course swimming championships alight by smashing the six-year-old 200m backstroke world record in Brisbane.
No one was more surprised by her blistering time than 19-year-old McKeown, who clocked 1 minute 58.94 on Saturday to eclipse the 2014 mark of 1:59.23 set by Hungarys Katinka Hosszu.
Short course is something we dont get to do very often so I was excited to see what I could put up after some solid training…

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