2024 SC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
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Women’s 200 Backstroke — Final
World Record: 1:58.83 — Regan Smith, USA (2024)World Junior Record: 2:00.03 — Missy Franklin, USA (2011)Championship Record: 1:59.23 — Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2014)- 2022 Champion: Kaylee McKeown, AUS — 1:59.26
Final:
- Regan Smith (USA) — 1:58.04 ***WORLD RECORD***
- Summer McIntosh (CAN) — 1:59.96 ***WORLD JUNIOR RECORD***
- Anastasiya Shkurdai (NAA) — 2:00.56
- Phoebe Bacon (USA) — 2:00.76
- Carmen Weiler Sastre (ESP) — 2:02.26
- Pauline Mahieu (FRA) — 2:03.21
- Iona Anderson (AUS) — 2:04.60
- Milana Stepanova (NAB) — 2:05.06
Regan Smith broke her own World Record in the SCM women’s 200 backstroke swimming to a time of a 1:58.04. That broke her record of a 1:58.83 that she swam this fall at the World Cup stop in Singapore. Australian Kaylee McKeown was the previous World Record holder at the time.
Split Comparison
| Regan Smith | Regan Smith | Kaylee McKeown | |
| New WR | Old WR |
Previous WR Holder
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| 50m | 27.76 | 27.89 | 28.4 |
| 100m | 29.83 | 30.29 | 30.19 |
| 150m | 30.24 | 30.29 | 30.41 |
| 200m | 30.21 | 30.36 | 29.94 |
| 1:58.04 | 1:58.83 | 1:58.94 |
Smith was out under her World Record pace and stayed under her old pace on all four 50s. Her biggest difference was the 2nd 50 as she was almost half a second faster today.
Smith swept all the backstroke events in Budapest, something fellow American Ryan Murphy did in the men’s events in 2022 at SC Worlds.
Smith holds all three World Records in the SCM backstroke events. She set the 100 and 200 backstrokes this fall at the World Cup stop in Singapore before adding the 50 backstroke this week. She broke the old 50 back record held by Maggie MacNeil. Now, she broke her own record in the 200 back.
Regan continues to crush records throughout her career.
I think this record could really drop in a few years, between Reagan and Kaylee. They have the speed to go out in 56, so what can they come back in? 59? And with walls it can keep the back half fast.
probably. Regan has better underwaters while Kaylee makes it up in the swimming component. Should be an interesting few years.
2 Wr records in One evening for Regan ! fantastic
Wow, she’s amazing. Who was the other girl that used to be good in this event? The aussie
McKeown
who? Kaylee McKeown; the four time individual Olympic champ something Regan has yet to accomplish.
Has Regan really not won an individual backstroke gold?
she hasn’t won an individual Olympic gold medal. that’s what i’m saying. she won gold at 2022 world champs and 2019 world champs but never at the olympics; the pinnacle of swimming
used to be good. Thats like saying Ledecky used to be good at the 800 or 1500. Just because they are not here swimming SC doesnt mean much for LC in the coming years.