{"id":489267,"date":"2021-10-09T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=489267"},"modified":"2021-10-23T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T17:06:27","slug":"2021-fina-world-cup-budapest-day-three-emma-mckeon-crushes-50-58-100-freestyle-moves-to-no-2-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2021-fina-world-cup-budapest-day-three-emma-mckeon-crushes-50-58-100-freestyle-moves-to-no-2-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 FINA World Cup Budapest Day Three: Emma McKeon Crushes 50.58 100 Freestyle, Moves to No. 2 All-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

2021 FINA World Cup Budapest Day Three: Emma McKeon Crushes 50.58, Moves to No. 2 All-Time in 100 Freestyle (SCM)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australia’s Emma McKeon<\/strong> is only months removed from the meet of her career and the most prolific Olympic performance ever by a female swimmer. She won seven medals total at the Tokyo Games, four of them gold, and two of those golden efforts came in individual events, the 100 freestyle and 50 freestyle. And after a quick post-Olympics break, McKeon has has steadily built back up to elite form during her brief short course season.<\/p>\n

This week, McKeon is competing at the FINA World Cup (short course) in Budapest, and McKeon posted the highlight swim of the third and final day of the event. In the 100 freestyle, she swam a 50.58. That tied the World Cup record of 50.58 set by Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong> back in 2017, a mark that was, at the time, the world record.<\/p>\n

The only swimmer to ever go faster is McKeon’s fellow Australian\u00a0Cate Campbell<\/strong>, who swam a 50.25 for the world record in October 2017. McKeon will be back in action during the ISL playoffs in November in Eindhoven and then the ISL final early next year, so she will have more chances to chase Campbell’s record — or perhaps even the vaunted 50-second barrier. Already, McKeon has become the second-fastest performer in history in the long course 100 free (51.96), so we’ll see if she has a magical short course performance in store over the next few months.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the same race, Sweden’s\u00a0Michelle Coleman<\/strong> finished second in 52.07, and another Aussie, Madison Wilson<\/strong>, finished third in 52.16.<\/p>\n

Matt Sates Holds Off Kyle Chalmers Again<\/h3>\n

One week after 18-year-old South African\u00a0Matt Sates<\/strong><\/a> knocked off Australian star\u00a0Kyle Chalmers<\/strong> in the 200 free at the previous stop of the FINA World Cup in Berlin, the teenager repeated his effort in Budapest. Sates built a slight lead going out and extended that margin to a half-second on the third 50. But then Chalmers, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist in the 100 free and silver medalist in Tokyo, closed hard (25.17), but Sates had just enough to hang on.<\/p>\n

Sates swam a time of 1:41.51, compared to Chalmers’ 1:41.60. In Berlin, the results had been Sates 1:40.65 and Chalmers 1:40.82, so the Australian cut the margin in half while both men were a bit slower this time around. Last week’s efforts moved Sates to sixth all-time in the 200 free and jumped Chalmers up to ninth.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hungarian superstar\u00a0Kristof Milak<\/strong> put up a 1:42.61, beating out Olympic finalist\u00a0Danas Rapsys\u00a0<\/strong>(1:41.80). Milak is not swimming all his best events this week (including butterfly), but he has had some nice efforts in front of a home crowd in Budapest.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the same session, Sates comfortably won the 400 IM in 4:04.21. That was about two seconds off the 4:01.98 he swam in the event last week in Berlin. The Hungarian duo of Balazs Hollo<\/strong> (4:09.07) and\u00a0Hubert Kos\u00a0<\/strong>(4:09.24) finished second and third, respectively, but they were a full five seconds behind the winner.<\/p>\n

World Junior Record in Mixed 200 Medley Relay for United States Teenagers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The mixed 200 medley relay concluded this World Cup stop, and a quartet from the United States won by more than two seconds while knocking three tenths off the world junior record set by the Americans six days earlier at the World Cup in Berlin. The group of\u00a0Quintin McCarthy<\/strong> (24.07),\u00a0Zhier Fan\u00a0<\/strong>(26.75),\u00a0Charlotte Hook<\/strong> (26.27) and\u00a0Kristina Paegle<\/strong> (24.12) combined for a time of 1:41.21, compared to the previous record of 1:41.55.<\/p>\n

South Africa’s group placed second in 1:43.68, and third went to Sweden in 1:44.37.<\/p>\n

Check out the rundown of the rest of the day’s action from Berlin.<\/p>\n