{"id":596803,"date":"2024-09-28T06:53:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T13:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=596803"},"modified":"2024-09-28T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T22:06:42","slug":"kaylee-mckeown-agonizingly-close-to-second-wr-in-50-backstroke-at-aussie-short-course-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kaylee-mckeown-agonizingly-close-to-second-wr-in-50-backstroke-at-aussie-short-course-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaylee McKeown Agonizingly Close to Second WR in 50 Backstroke at Aussie Short Course Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kaylee McKeown Agonizingly Close to Second WR in 50 Backstroke at Aussie Short Course Champs<\/strong><\/p>\n

World beating Australian backstroker Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> has gone within a whisker of her second world record in Adelaide tonight \u2013 missing by almost the barest of margins \u2013 swimming 0.15secs outside the 50m short course world mark.<\/p>\n

Her time of 25.40, coming just 48 hours after her opening night world record in the 100m backstroke which set the Australian Short Course Championships alight at the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre.<\/p>\n

Missing the world mark in the 50m but setting a new Oceania and Australian record – the second fastest time in history – just 0.09 under Mollie O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s<\/strong> record of 25.49 set when the teenage Olympic sensation led off Australia\u2019s world record-breaking 4x50m medley relay team at the 2022 World SC Championships in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

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CHARGING Kaylee McKeown. (Swimming Australia Image\/David Mariuz)<\/p><\/div>\n

And the time came 24 hours after McKeown withdrew from the 200m backstroke won by fellow Paris Olympian Iona Anderson<\/strong> -elevated to silver in the 50m final after former Australian champion Bronte Job<\/strong> was disqualified.<\/p>\n

McKeown said the last time she had swum Short Course was in fact in 2022 at the World Championships in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven’t been training a whole lot, so I didn\u2019t have any expectation on myself, but I have really enjoyed this meet \u2013 I may pull up sore tomorrow though,\u201d said McKeown, who is expected to be named on the 24-strong Australian Team for the 2024 World SCX Championships in Budapest in December.<\/p>\n

The second world mark of the meet was also broken with Victoria\u2019s two-time Paralympic medallist Ahmed Kelly<\/strong> who clocked 2:55.06, breaking the old mark \u2013 which was also his \u2013 by just 0.05 in the SM3 150m IM multi-class.<\/p>\n

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FLASH! Kaylee McKeown Shatters 100 Backstroke World Record at Aussie Short Course Champs<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n