2024 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP-SHANGHAI
American swimmer Kate Douglass, among the best quick course yards swimmers in American historical past, tied the American File within the 100 meter IM on Friday morning in Shanghai within the preliminary rounds.
Douglass swam 57.72, which tied the time achieved by Beata Nelson, a brief course specialist, at a cease of the Worldwide Swimming League in 2021.
File-tying Splits Comparability
Douglass’ splits by 25: 11.78/14.95/16.90/14.09
The World File belongs to Katinka Hosszu of Hungary, who swam 56.51 at a 2017 World Cup cease in Berlin. Hosszu at present holds the 13 quickest performances in historical past and 19 out of the highest 20. Douglass’ time ties her because the Twelfth-fastest performer within the historical past of the occasion that has traditionally been dominated by Europeans. At every of the final two World Brief Course Championships, the podiums have been made up completely of Europeans.
High 15 Performers All-Time, Girls’s SCM 100 IM
Katinka Hosszu, Hungary – 56.51
Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden – 57.10
Beryl Gastaldello, France – 57.30
Charlotte Bonnet, France – 57.47
(TIE) Alicia Coutts, Australia/Marrit Steenbergen, Netherlands – 57.53
(TIE) Mariia Kameneva, Russia/Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Nice Britain/Anastasiya Shkurdai, Belarus – 57.59
(TIE) – Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuania/Louise Hansson, Sweden – 57.68
(TIE) Beata Nelson, USA/Kate Douglass, USA – 57.72
Hinkelien Schreuder, Netherlands – 57.75
Rikako Ikee, Japan – 57.75
Douglass’ versatility and skill to swim quick in-season made this American File really feel like an inevitability on this, her first tour of the World Cup sequence. She now has or shares American Information in 15 occasions. That features the 50 free (23.91) and 200 breast (2:19.24) individually in lengthy course: among the many rarest document mixtures the game has seen at this stage.
She additionally holds the document within the 200 yard breaststroke and beforehand held American Information within the 50 yard free and 100 yard fly. Final yr, she grew to become the primary lady ever beneath 52 seconds within the 100 yard IM.
Douglass is dedicated to swim all three stops of the World Cup and the World Brief Course Swimming Championships in December in Budapest. The autumn of racing ‘the circuit’ comes after a four-medal efficiency on the Paris Olympics, successful gold within the 200 breast and 400 medley relays and silver within the 200 IM and 400 free relays.
Douglass is at present scheduled to swim the 50 and 100 freestyles, the 200 breast, and the 200 IM for Workforce USA. She wouldn’t have beforehand been eligible for the 100 IM, as she had no time within the occasion, however the U.S. has no entries in that occasion so she could possibly be eligible so as to add one there if she selected to.
She is scheduled to swim 10 races this weekend (although she seemingly received’t), and can be the highest seed within the 200 breast (2:17.11) on Friday. The quick course quickest time by an American within the 200 breast is a 2:14.57 achieved in December 2009 by Rebecca Soni that can be the present World File. By a quirk of the principles, that document is just not what USA Swimming formally acknowledges because the American File – which is as an alternative Lilly King’s 2:15.56 from the 2020 ISL season.
The 100 IM is exclusive as a result of it’s the solely occasion on the standard swimming schedule that may actually solely correctly exist in a brief course pool.
The Shanghai cease of the World Cup sequence runs by way of October 20.
