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Kate Douglass Downs Her 200m Breaststroke WR En-Route To Title Defense<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Kate Douglass<\/strong> lowered her 200m breaststroke world record to 2:12.50 as she became the first woman to defend the title at the short-course worlds in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old set the previous record of 2:12.72 at the final leg of the World Cup in Singapore at the end of October.\u00a0On Friday, the Olympic champion cut 0.22 from that time in what was also a championship record.<\/p>\n<p>It means that an American tops the podium for the fourth straight short-course worlds following <strong>Annie Lazor<\/strong> in 2018, <strong>Emily Escobedo<\/strong> in 2021 and Douglass in Melbourne and Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>Neutral athlete <strong>Evgeniia Chikunova<\/strong> was second in 2:15.14 with <strong>Alex Walsh<\/strong> making it a USA 1-3 in 2:16.83.<\/p>\n<p>While Douglass makes history as the first woman to have won the title on more than one occasion, she finds herself among a host of American breaststroke greats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Soni<\/strong> &#8211; who won consecutive Olympic titles in 2008 and 2012 &#8211; claimed the short-course gold in 2010 while <strong>Lilly King<\/strong> was second behind Douglass two years ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kate Douglass short course worlds\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9sRzmUIwBZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2024-short-course-world-championships\">All Budapest 2024 Coverage\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"601774\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/flash-kate-douglass-downs-her-200m-breaststroke-wr-en-route-to-title-defence\/w200brwr\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w200brWR.png\" data-orig-size=\"722,329\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"w200brWR\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w200brWR-700x329.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w200brWR.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-601774\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w200brWR-700x329.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w200brWR-280x128.png 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w200brWR-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w200brWR-450x205.png 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w200brWR-533x243.png 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/w200brWR.png 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLASH! 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