Canada’s Maggie MacNeil destroyed the 100m butterfly global report Sunday and america shattered the women’s 4x100m medley relay mark to wrap up the six-day World Short Course Championships.
A 1/3 document tumbled inside the very last race at Melbourne with Australia and the US finishing in a dead warmness to jointly set a new first-rate time inside the guys’s 4x100m medley.
Australia’s Kaylee Mckeown also wrote a slice of records through prevailing the 200m backstroke to come to be the first lady ever to hold the short path, long direction, Olympic and Commonwealth titles within the identical event concurrently.
Defending champion MacNeil become at the back of Torri Huske as they turned for the final 25m lap, but powered home in fifty four.05 seconds to demolish the preceding mark of American Kelsi Dahlia by over half of a 2nd.The USA’s Huske took silver ahead of Sweden’s Louise Hansson.
It turned into MacNeil’s 2d international report of the meet after breaking her personal 50m backstroke pleasant on Friday.
South African veteran Chad Le Clos made it a butterfly double with the aid of disposing of the guys’s 100m title in 48.59 to go with his 200m crown.
It changed into his fifth world crown over 100m to go with those he won in 2012-14-16-18.
Backstroke queen Mckeown led from the start to clock 1:fifty nine.26, shy of her personal international file but in advance of American Claire Curzan and Canada’s Kylie Masse.
In the men’s race, Ryan Murphy additionally led all the way to take it out in 1:forty seven.41 and cement his status as a amazing after additionally claiming the 50m and 100m titles.
Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte, who broke the arena record inside the semi-finals, changed into too sturdy in the ladies’s 50m breaststroke, coming home in 28.50. South Africa’s Lara van Niekerk received silver and American Lilly King bronze.
Among the men, Nic Fink edged Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi in 25.38, including to the American’s 100m breaststroke identify. But Britain’s Adam Peaty best controlled 6th.
World record holder Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong successfully defended her 200m freestyle crown in 1:51.65, whilst Sunwoo Hwang stunned a top field to clinch the guys’s gold in 1:39.Seventy two.
The South Korean, swimming in lane eight, held off Romanian sensation David Popovici and British Olympic champion Tom Dean.
Culminating the six-day meet, the American group of Curzan, King, Huske and Kate Douglass smashed their very own 4x100m medley relay file once they surged home in 3:forty four.35 ahead of Australia and Canada.
The feat turned into matched through the guys with Australia and the United States cracking a report that had stood when you consider that 2009 to together win gold in 3:18.Ninety eight.
The United States finished top of the medal table with 17 gold, thirteen silver and six bronze in advance of arch-opponents Australia with thirteen-eight-5.