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Siobhan Haughey — Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Scala \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto<\/p><\/div>\n
The 100 free turned out much better, however, as Haughey took second behind O’Callaghan in the final in 52.49<\/a>. The 25-year-old finally benefitted from an absence as the swimmers who posted the second and third-quickest flat-start 100 free performances at the meet, Sweden’s\u00a0Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong> and Australia’s\u00a0Shayna Jack<\/strong>, were not entered in the individual event. That allowed Haughey to secure her first-ever medal at a long course Worlds.<\/p>\n
Strong results and a solid setup for the Paris Olympics one year away. But as the rest of the world reset and turned their attention toward those Games, Haughey still had business to attend to. The results have been some of the quickest in her career and 100-meter speed she had never before touched, even in her medal-winning moments.<\/p>\n
Haughey won six medals at the Asian Games, including golds in the 200 free and 100 free. She took silver behind Zhang Yufei<\/strong> in the 50 free and also earned bronze in a rare appearance in the 50 breaststroke. Haughey helped a pair of Hong Kong relays reach the podium as well. Breaststroke, obviously, will not be a focus for Haughey on the world stage, but her times in her main events were plenty elite: her 52.17 in the 100 free clipped her Asian record by a tenth<\/a> and broke a tie with\u00a0Bronte Campbell<\/strong> for seventh all-time, and her 200 free time was 1:54.12, just off her Worlds effort.<\/p>\n
And at the opening stop of the World Cup this weekend in Berlin<\/a>, Haughey blasted a 52.02 100 free time, the 15-hundredth drop propelling her into third on the all-time list for the race<\/a>. Only Sjostrom (51.71) and McKeon (51.96) have ever broken 52, and no one has done so since McKeon’s run to Olympic gold two years ago. Haughey now leads the logjam of 52.0s, having surpassed the lifetime-best efforts of Cate Campbell (52.03), Simone Manuel<\/strong> (52.04),\u00a0Britta Steffen<\/strong> (52.07) and O’Callaghan (52.08).<\/p>\n
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\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf0 Siobhan Haughey in the Women\u2019s 100m freestyle at the Berlin World Cup setting the third fastest performance in HISTORY 52.02 \ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31 #SWC23<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/GD3UDrS3ud<\/a><\/p>\n
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