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Paralympic Champion Benny Hance Pumped With A Second World Record In The 50m Freestyle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s charismatic Paralympic golden boy Benny Hance<\/strong> has finished his Australian Open Championship campaign the same way he started \u2013 on world record pace.<\/p>\n

One of Australia\u2019s more expressive swimmers out of the pool, the two-time Paralympic gold medallist from Tokyo and Paris, set his second Virtus World Record (for intellectually impaired athletes) in the Multi-Class program at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.<\/p>\n

Coached \u00a0by Olympian Ash Delaney<\/strong> at St Andrews on the Sunshine Coast, Hance clocked an eye-watering 22.96 in the heats of the MC 50m freestyle \u2013 narrowly outside that time when he won the final in 23.21.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old S14 category athlete blasting down the pool alongside fellow Paralympic gold medallist, another equally engaging personality in S10 athlete Rowan Crothers<\/strong> \u00a0(Marion, SA) who was second in 23.59, ahead of the S15 hearing impaired Nicholas Layton<\/strong> (Melbourne Vicentre) 23.76.<\/p>\n

Hance<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>opened his campaign on day one with a new mark in the 50m butterfly MD heats at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre clocking a time of 24.17 to set a new Virtus World Record \u2013 taking 0.10secs off his own world record set at the 2025 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championship last December.<\/p>\n

Hance showed he was on song in the opening event of the three-day meet \u2013 the open men\u2019s 50m backstroke \u2013 clocking 25.93 (heat) and 25.92 (final) in a first for a Para swimmer.<\/p>\n

(VIRTUS Games is an international competition for intellectually impaired athletes, this event is not a World Para swimming event).<\/p>\n

Hance is also the Para world record holder in the 100m backstroke.<\/p>\n

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