{"id":527666,"date":"2023-04-19T02:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T09:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=527666"},"modified":"2023-04-19T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:18:18","slug":"kaylee-mckeown-shock-australian-title-win-in-the-200m-breaststroke-stops-the-clock-in-an-eye-catching-2-24-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kaylee-mckeown-shock-australian-title-win-in-the-200m-breaststroke-stops-the-clock-in-an-eye-catching-2-24-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaylee McKeown&#8217;s Shock Australian Title Win In The 200m Breaststroke; Stops The Clock In An Eye-Catching 2.24.18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Kaylee McKeown&#8217;s Shock Australian Title In The 200m Breaststroke, Stopping The Clock In 2.24.18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s number one female backstroker <strong>Kaylee McKeown <\/strong>has tonight won her maiden 200m breaststroke title on night three of the Australian Swimming Championships on Queensland\u2019s Gold Coast &#8211; stopping the clock in the ninth fastest time in the world this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old backstroking demon from the Griffith University also clocked the eighth fastest time by an Australian of 2:24.18 \u2013 beating fellow Olympian <strong>Abbey Harkin<\/strong> (St Peters Western, QLD) 2:25.72 and last year\u2019s World Championship silver medallist <strong>Jenna Strauch<\/strong> (Miami, QLD)\u00a0 third in 2:25.94.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meagan Nay<\/strong>, the two-time Australian Olympic backstroker, commentating for Australian television was quick to heap praise on the triple Olympic and world champion backstroker, saying: What a talent..what a super talent&#8230;.is there nothing this girl can\u2019t do ?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ariarne-titmus-lays-down-a-400-49-to-swim-away-with-the-australian-400m-title-on-the-gold-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaylee McKeown has already taken the 200IM at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre in a personal best time of 2:08.16 (the third fastest time by an Australian) and defending her 100m backstroke title last night in the second fastest time in the world this year with a sizzling 57.90.<\/p>\n<p>The girl who has re-written the backstroking record books over the past three years and dabbling in the IM events, came in to the meet on a 2:29.76 \u2013 clocking 2:30.63 in the preliminaries this morning\u00a0 \u2013 but blowing the field away swimming from lane six in the final that she made her own from the third 50m lap after Harkin led the field through the first 100m.<\/p>\n<p>Kaylee McKeown splitting 1:10.22 before putting together two sublime backend 50s of 37.06 and a final lap of 36.90 &#8211; 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