{"id":357680,"date":"2019-03-12T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=357680"},"modified":"2019-03-12T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:16:32","slug":"zumo-performance-of-the-week-regan-smith-breaks-bakers-american-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/zumo-performance-of-the-week-regan-smith-breaks-bakers-american-record\/","title":{"rendered":"ZUMO Performance of the Week: Regan Smith Breaks Baker\u2019s American Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis week\u2019s ZUMO Performance of the Week goes to <\/span>Regan Smith <\/b>for <\/span>setting a new American record in the 200 back<\/span><\/a> at the 2019 Cary Sectionals. <\/span><\/p>\n

The 17-year old came into the meet with a lifetime best of 1:48.30, exactly one second off of <\/span>Kathleen Baker\u2019s <\/b>then-American record of 1:47.30. Smith had just narrowly missed the American record in the 100 back the day prior, hitting two sub-50 second 100 backstrokes for the first time in her career to make her the third-fastest performer ever (49.74) and smash the 17-18 NAG record. <\/span><\/p>\n

The 200 back was Smith\u2019s last individual finals swim of the meet and she didn\u2019t disappoint. Splitting 25.05\/26.49 on the way out (51.54), Smith was under Baker\u2019s record pace by more than a second (52.77). She was able to hold on with closing splits of 27.59 and 28.03 to get to the wall in 1:47.16, taking .14 off of Baker\u2019s record and breaking her first short course yards American record of her career. <\/span><\/p>\n

That makes her the fourth woman to swim under 1:48 in the 200 yard back, and also gave her the 17-18 NAG record that had belonged to <\/span>Missy Franklin<\/b>. You can check out the race video of Smith\u2019s swim below:<\/span><\/p>\n