{"id":598724,"date":"2024-11-02T04:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=598724"},"modified":"2024-11-02T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T23:22:29","slug":"flash-regan-smith-takes-down-200m-backstroke-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/flash-regan-smith-takes-down-200m-backstroke-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Regan Smith Takes Down 200m Backstroke World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

FLASH! Regan Smith Takes Down 200m Backstroke World Record<\/h4>\n

Regan Smith<\/strong> made it two world records in as many days as she lowered the 200 back standard to 1:58.83 at the World Cup in Singapore.<\/p>\n

The USA swimmer was inside WR pace throughout as she touched the wall 0.11 faster than the 1:58.94 standard held by Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> since November 2020.<\/p>\n

It was a gutsy final 25 by the American who went 15.06 to McKeown’s 14.77 and came 24 hours after she lowered her own 100 back mark to 54.27.<\/p>\n

Anastasiya Shkurdai<\/strong> was second in 2:01.63 with Iona Anderson<\/strong> third in 2:01.98.<\/p>\n

Smith splits: 27.89\/58.18\/1:28.47\/1:58.83<\/p>\n

McKeown splits: 28.40\/58.59\/1:29.00\/1:58.94<\/p>\n

Smith said: “Feels good. I knew that I’d have to break the world record if I wanted to pass Kate in the overall rankings, and I couldn’t quite do it. I’m a 10th of a point behind her. But we have been having so much fun over the course of these three stops, pushing each other. So it’s been a blast. This is a World Cup, it is so much fun, and I want to keep doing it in future years.”<\/p>\n

Looking to the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest next month, she added: “I want to go to the short-course worlds and have just as much fun as I had here. I think life is too short to take stuff like this so seriously. I’ve been having so much fun, and that’s what swimming should be. And so I think my goal at short course worlds is to swim fast and enjoy it.”<\/p>\n

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