{"id":325644,"date":"2018-08-14T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=325644"},"modified":"2019-07-02T11:57:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T18:57:44","slug":"lumalanes-performance-of-the-week-cate-campbell-makes-big-statement-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lumalanes-performance-of-the-week-cate-campbell-makes-big-statement-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"LumaLanes Performance of the Week: Cate Campbell Makes Big Statement In Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s Performance Of The Week, <\/span>sponsored by LumaLanes<\/span><\/a>, goes to <\/span>Cate Campbell<\/b>, who continued her impressive rise back to the top of the international ranks with a <\/span>new best time in the 100 free<\/span><\/a> at last week\u2019s Pan Pacific Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n

Campbell\u2019s ascent back to the top of the world rankings has been well documented this year, and any doubters still out there had to be silenced this week after <\/span>her performances at Pan Pacs<\/span><\/a>. The 26-year-old Australian was the standout performer at last week\u2019s meet in Tokyo, winning five gold medals and making history in the 100 free.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Campbell\u2019s first ever sub-51 second 100 free relay split is something to be celebrated (you can read more about <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>), she was able to back that up with the second fastest flat-start performance in history. Clocking in at 52.03, she broke her own Commonwealth Record of 52.06 that she set in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes Campbell\u2019s performance even more impressive is that this was her <\/span>second <\/span><\/i>major international meet of the summer, and presumably her third major rest meet in the last four months. <\/span><\/p>\n

And while <\/span>Sarah Sjostrom<\/b> still has the world record and remains the only woman to swim under 52 seconds in the event, Campbell did earn the top time in the world this year and swam almost a full second faster than Sjostrom\u2019s winning time of 52.93 in the finals at European Championships just two days earlier. <\/span><\/p>\n

Congratulations Cate Campbell on earning Swimming World\u2019s Performance of the Week!<\/span><\/p>\n