2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup – Incheon
Make that two short-course world data in a single week for UVA-based swimmers as Kate Douglass provides her identify to the world file ebook for the primary time in a person occasion. Douglass dismantled the super-suited ladies’s 200 breaststroke world file, which Rebecca Soni held at 2:14.57 since December 2009.
Douglass earned her first particular person Olympic gold medal within the long-course 200 breaststroke in Paris. Two years in the past, she received the 2022 SC world title in a championship file 2:15.77, which stood as her lifetime finest till her swim in Incheon. Given the enhancements that Douglass has made within the 50-meter pool within the virtually two years since that meet, there was loads of anticipation to see what she may publish within the lead-up to this 12 months’s version of the Quick Course World Championships in December.
Douglass neared her finest time final week in Shanghai, swimming 2:15.96. Within the Incheon ultimate, she jumped on the race from the beginning, opening in 30.68—properly beneath world file tempo.
Cut up Comparability:
Douglass — 2024 Incheon World Cup
Soni — 2009 Duel In The Pool
Douglass — 2022 SC World Championship
50
30.68
31.05
30.96
100
1:04.75 (34.07)
1:05.18 (34.13)
1:05.35 (34.39)
150
1:39.20 (34.45)
1:40.00 (34.82)
1:40.65 (35.30)
200
2:14.16 (34.96)
2:14.57 (34.57)
2:15.77 (35.12)
Douglass turned on the midway level in 1:04.75, .43 seconds forward of Soni’s 1:05.18 opening 100 meters. Douglass’s third 50 was exceptional—she break up 34.45, extending her lead over the world file line to .80 seconds. Not solely was she .37 seconds forward of Soni’s tempo, however the third 50 break up was a giant drop from 2022, as she out-split herself by .85 seconds.
Then, she managed to maintain herself sub-35 seconds over the ultimate 50 meters of the race. Soni’s world file crept up, however Douglass constructed a sufficiently big lead over the primary 150 meters of the race that she was capable of stave off the world file line. She stopped the clock at 2:14.16, breaking Soni’s world file by .41 seconds.
Douglass is now the world file holder and world champion within the 25-meter pool, the Olympic champion and American file holder within the 50-meter pool, and the NCAA and American file holder within the 200-yard breaststroke. She cements herself as arguably the perfect 200 breaststroker throughout all three pool sizes we’ve ever seen.
By wiping Soni’s file off the books, just one supersuited quick course meters world file stays on the ladies’s aspect: Therese Alshammar’s 24.38 mark within the 50 butterfly from the Singapore cease on the 2009 World Cup.
Douglass received the Shanghai World Cup on the ladies’s aspect. By means of at some point of racing, she’s main the Incheon standings with 39.7 factors and stays undefeated on the 2024 World Cup collection by means of six occasions.
