2020 SWIMMING AUSTRALIA VIRTUAL C’SHIPS
- Thursday, November 26th – Sunday, November 29th
- Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Perth & Melbourne
- SCM (25m)
- Start dates & times vary in each city
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- Start Lists/Results
Correction: an error in the USA Swimming databases led us to originally report McKeown as the 7th-fastest performer in history. She is, in fact, 2nd.
19-year-old Kaylee McKeown already broke through with a World Record in the women’s 200m back from session 1 of these Australian Virtual Championships. But, in session 2, the USC Spartan wowed again, taking down the national record in the 200m IM.
Entering these virtual championships, which are taking place at 5 separate locations with results compiled at the end, McKeown’s lifetime best in this SCM 200 IM was previously the 2:08.12 she put up at the 2017 edition of this in-person meet.
However, competing in Brisbane tonight, McKeown blew away that time, as well as the rest of the field, hitting the wall in a result of 2:03.68. That not only lays waste to the aforementioned previous personal best, but it also checks-in as the new Australian standard, overtaking the previous mark of 2:05.63 Alicia Coutts put on the books way back in 2013.
Splits for McKeown’s race will not be available until all sites have concluded their session #2, but we will update as soon as they are published.
McKeown now ranks as the 2nd fastest performer all-time in this event behind only Katinka Hosszu, and she’s only 19 years of age.
Women’s All-Time SCM 200 IM Performers
| Rank | Time | Swimmer | Nation | Date |
| 1 | 2:01.86 | Katinka Hosszu | Hungary | 12/6/2014 |
| 2 | 2:03.68 | Kaylee McKeown | Australia | 11/27/2020 |
| 3 | 2:03.93 | Yui Ohashi | Japan | 11/14/2020 |
| 4 | 2:04.00 | Sydney Pickrem | Canada | 11/21/2020 |
| 5 | 2:04.06 | Melanie Margalis | United States | 10/16/2020 |
Just from an ISL perspective, McKeown’s time would have ranked her as the top swimmer in the league for season 2, beating even the undefeated Yui Ohashi of the Tokyo Frog Kings. Ohashi held the fastest time of season 2 in 2:03.93.
This is about a 2.08 flat LC transferable because KM i s a primarily a LC swimmer. An interesting match to Baker in both back & IM .
Let’s hope she swims this event in Tokyo it would be great to watch
This is another event that can be very interesting at the Olympics, 4 out of the top 5 performers top times are from the last few weeks.
Really puts into perspective HOW GOOD 2014 Hosszu really was…
She swam faster in 2013,14,15,16, and in 18 (alltogether 11 times) than Kaylee.
Dominant!
Downvote guy. Fact is fact 🙂
What is the source for that ranking?
From FINA:
http://www.fina.org/fina-rankings/results?top=10&gender=Women&year=All&poolConfiguration=SCM&distance=200&style=Medley×Mode=BestTimes&continentId=All&countryId=All&type=overall-rankings&selectedGroup=Medley&selectedGender=Women&selectedDistance=200
RANK EVENT TIME PTS ATHLETE NF YOB COMPETITION COUNTRY / DATE
1 Women 200 Medley 2:01.86
WR 1033
HOSSZU Katinka
HUN 1989 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) 2014 QAT
06 Dec 2014
2 Women 200 Medley 2:03.93
950
OHASHI Yui
JPN 1995 ISL 2020 Season – Semifinal 1 HUN
14 Nov 2020
3 Women 200 Medley 2:04.00
949
PICKREM Sydney
CAN 1997 ISL 2020 Season – Final HUN
21 Nov 2020
4 Women 200 Medley 2:04.06
947
MARGALIS Melanie
USA 1991 ISL 2020 Season… Read more »
2nd fastest swimmer but 12th fastest swim.
Those Japanese swims were probably logged under the wrong event!
Agree. I think McKeown is now the 2nd fastest performer ever.
Lol
Obviously.
You’re definitely right. Ohashi owns the national record by a sizable margin.
I double-checked — none of the times by the Japanese swimmers ahead of McKeown exist in FINA’s database.