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Watch Kaylee McKeown break the World Record in the 100 backstroke IN SEPTEMBER!
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Already on fire from her double gold medal-winning performances at the 2024 Olympic Games, Kaylee McKeown of Australia is now doing damage on the short course record book.
While racing on day one of the 2024 Australian Short Course Championships, 23-year-old McKeown of Griffith University fired off a new World Record mark in the women’s 100m backstroke.
McKeown crushed a result of 54.56 to get to the wall first, defeating the field by over a second.
Iona Anderson was next in 55.79 while Gemma Cooney rounded out the top 3 in 57.80.
As for McKeown, the megastar split 12.82/13.87/13.90/13.97 to overtake the former World Record of 54.89 fellow Aussie Minna Atherton put on the books during the 2019 International Swimming League (ISL) season.
Both Aussies remain the only women ever to have delved under the 55-second barrier in this event.
Top 10 Women’s SCM 100 Backstroke Performers All-Time
- Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 54.56, 2024
- Minna Atherton (AUS) – 54.89, 2019
- Katinka Hosszu (HUN) – 55.03, 2014
- Olivia Smoliga (USA) – 55.04, 2020
- Kira Toussaint (NED) – 55.17, 2019
- Louise Hansson (SWE) – 55.20, 2021
- Kylie Masse (CAN) – 55.22, 2021
- Shiho Sakai (JPN) – 55.23, 2009
- Emily Seebohm (AUS) – 55.31, 2014
- Ingrid Wilm (CAN) – 55.36, 2022
Entering this competition, McKeown’s lifetime best in this SCM 100 back rested at the 55.49 logged at the 2022 Short Course World Championships. That rendered her the gold medalist and the Michael Bohl-trained athlete also won the 200m back in 1:59.26 at those championships.
McKeown is accumulating a highly impressive list of current World Records, now owning the following:
- LCM 50 back – 26.86, 2023
- LCM 200 back – 2:03.14, 2023
- SCM 100 back – 54.56, 2024
- SCM 200 back – 1:58.94, 2020
McKeown is set to race the 50m back, 200m back and 100m IM later on at this competition.
Who is her coach these days?
Janelle Pallister
Backstroke GOAT
we’re all just living in Kaylee’s world
26.11 australian record for grayson bell. took the commentators a while to realise…
No Kaylee in the 200 back 😭
She looked so smooth and swam with no pressure. Too bad she couldn’t set the record in Paris against Regan.
Too bad she has 4 individual gold medals to Regan’s 0
Too bad she beat Regan in all individual races since 2019
Kaylee is doing Kaylee things, making history. 200 back today, 100im later in the meet.
What does this roughly convert to in SCY? No based on some calculator lol
Who cares real swimming is done in metres! Americans can hate me all they want for the comment but that’s the truth why else would world aquatics be using metres of yards
You need the calculator to accurately convert lol, but here’s a clue, the rest of the world dont swim in yards for solid reasons,
49:47.38SCY…Unimpressive next to GW 48.26
Your are joking. Kaylee has been back training for 3 weeks or less.
Trying to reason with Swimdad is like debating someone from the Flat Earth Society.
Did Kaylee cut you off in traffic or something?