{"id":519179,"date":"2022-12-18T01:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T08:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=519179"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T20:37:21","slug":"world-championships-day-six-womens-finals-maggie-mac-neil-goes-54-05-to-add-100-fly-wr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-six-womens-finals-maggie-mac-neil-goes-54-05-to-add-100-fly-wr\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASH! World Championships, Day Six Women’s Finals: Maggie Mac Neil Goes 54.05 to Add 100 Fly World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Championships, Day Six: Maggie Mac Neil Goes 54.05 to Add 100 Fly WR<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was nothing to separate Torri Huske<\/strong> and Maggie Mac Neil<\/strong> in the final of the women\u2019s 50 butterfly. It took something outstanding from Mac Neil in the final.<\/p>\n

The Canadian delivered a savage third 25 to take control of the race, obliterating the world record with a time of 54.05 seconds. That\u2019s more than a half-second lopped off the world record set last year by Kelsi Dahlia<\/strong> at 54.59.<\/p>\n

She needed it to hold off Huske, the precocious young American who had her by seven tenths of a second in front at the midway point. She turned in 25.08, with Louise Hansson<\/strong> second in 25.61 and Mac Neil at 25.78. But MacNeil covered the next 25 meters, with her unparalleled underwaters, in 13.63, clawing back all of that deficit on Huske.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy,\u201d MacNeil said. \u201cI was relatively close in Toronto so I knew that that was something I was aiming for this week, but to break it by that much, I was really surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n