{"id":519180,"date":"2022-12-18T02:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T09:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=519180"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T20:49:10","slug":"world-championships-day-six-nic-fink-does-sprint-breast-double-with-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-six-nic-fink-does-sprint-breast-double-with-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships, Day Six: Nic Fink Does Sprint Breast Double with AR"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Championships, Day Six: Nic Fink Does Sprint Breast Double with AR<\/strong><\/p>\n

At 28 years of age, Nic Fink<\/strong> had arguably the best meet of his career in Abu Dhabi at the 2021 FINA Short-Course World Championship.<\/p>\n

That item on his resume will have to be revised after what he\u2019s done in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

The American capped off a stellar meet at the 2022 World Championships by winning the 50 breaststroke Sunday in a championship record 25.38 seconds. He also lowered his American record from the 25.53 he used to win a year ago.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Fink capped another out-of-this-world championships. Last year, he won gold in the 50 breast and 200 breast to go with bronze in the 100 (plus a medley relay gold and two silvers). This time around, he\u2019s done the 50\/100 double<\/a> and silver in the 200<\/a>. Add gold in the 50 breast at long-course Worlds in Budapest and bronze in the 100, and it\u2019s been quite a year for Fink, who is swimming his best times in sight of age 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to still be going PRs, still be going best times,\u201d he said Sunday, \u201cand most importantly, still having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n