2021 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, December 16th – Tuesday, December 21st
- Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- SCM (25m)
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Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey missed her own personal best and Asian Record, but earned another gold medal on Saturday in the women’s 100 free final.
Her time of 50.98 broke a World Championship Record in the event that was previously set by Ranomi Kromowidjojo in 2018. Kromowidjojo’s old record time was 51.14.
Splits Comparison:
| Siobhan Haughey | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | ||
| New Meet Record | Old Meet Record |
Personal Best/Asian Record
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| 50m | 24.52 | 24.66 | 24.47 |
| 100m | 26.46 | 26.48 | 26.32 |
| Final Time | 50.98 | 51.14 | 50.79 |
Haughey beat out Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom (51.31) in the race. Sjostrom has 4 World Championship gold medals in short course, but none were in this race – her best finish came in Doha in 2014, where she took silver.
The win for Haughey is her 2nd gold medal of the meet. On Wednesday, she won, and set a World Record, in the 200 free. That made for Hong Kong’s first-ever World Championship in swimming.
Go go…何诗蓓…Siobhan Haughey
Sjostrom is still leaving herself too much to do late in the race. I fully understood it in Tokyo so close to the broken elbow. Later this year I thought the early explosiveness would return. I don’t like comebacks as opposed to asserting yourself.
Wonder what will it take to beat Cate’s 50.25
50.24
Funny how Sarah Sjostrom had the WR in SCM and has the WR in LCM, but no world championship gold medals in the 100 free…
She won the 100 free LC in Budapest 2017 right?
No, Simone Manuel did. Sarah set the WR at that meet though leading off the 4×100 free relay