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2024 SC World Championships Day Three Prelims Record Roundup

Check out the slew of national records that bit the dust on both the men’s and women’s sides during day three prelims of the SC World Championships.

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Gretchen Walsh Posts 56.06 100 IM Meet Record On Day 3 In Budapest

American Gretchen Walsh continued her record-breaking tear in Budapest, establishing a new competition mark in the women’s 100m IM.

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Olympic Champion Summer McIntosh Hits 2:01.96 World Junior Record In 200 Fly

18-year-old Summer McIntosh ripped a new World Junior Record of 2:01.96 in the women’s 200 fly on day 3 prelims of the Short Course World Championships.

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Olympic Champion Lukas Maertens Drops Out of SC Worlds with an Illness

Lukas Maertens admitted he wasn’t in top shape for Worlds, but he was in Budapest intending to race before he woke up sick this week.

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Watch: Noe Ponti Shatters 50 Butterfly WR (Again), Other Race Videos from Day 2 of SC Worlds

On day 2 of the 2024 SC World Championships, records continued to tumble as Noe Ponti led the charge with a World Record in the 50 butterfly.

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Beryl Gastaldello Jumps To #4 All-Time With New French Record In Women’s 50 Fly (24.43)

The 29-year-old touched in a time of 24.43, winning the silver medal and breaking the French National Record of 24.56 set by Melanie Henique in 2019.

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Europe, Asia, Oceania, World Junior, Canada Records Fall In Mixed 4×50 medley relay

Russia’s 4×50 Mixed Medley Relay Victory was one of three new continental records. Russia’s lead-off leg, swum by Miron Lifinstev, was an unofficial WJR.

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Lani Pallister Sets New Championship Record In 800 Free, Gose Breaks 2nd German Record Of Meet

Lani Pallister (Australia) swam to a new Championship Record, breaking the old record that China’s Li Bingjie swam at the 2021 edition of the meet.

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Listen To The World Aquatics Anthem

The World Aquatics anthem is being played instead of the national anthem for swimmers competing as individual neutral athletes in Budapest.

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Noe Ponti, imparable: oro con récord del mundo en Budapest 2024

El suizo estableció una nueva plusmarca de los 50 mariposa en piscina corta al imponerse en la final en Hungría, con un tiempo de 21.32 segundos.

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Noe Ponti Breaks World Record Again With 21.32 50 Butterfly In Budapest

Ponti continues to drop time off his own World Record, earning him another $25,000 World Record bonus as well in Budapest.

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Neutral Athlete Miron Lifintsev Breaks World Junior Record in the 100 SCM Backstroke

Russia’s talented young backstroker Miron Lifintsev has broken his countrymate’s World Junior Record to win gold at the World Championships.

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Budapest 2024: Carmen Weiler, séptima en su final de miércoles

La española que estudia y entrena en Estados Unidos, en la universidad de Virginia Tech, seguirá su Mundial en los 50 y 200 espalda.

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Neutral Athlete Kirill Prigoda Breaks Russian Record in the 100 Breast at World Championships

Russian Kiril Prigoda, competing under a neutral banner this week, has broken the National Record in the 100 breaststroke in prelims.

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Angharad Evans Crushes British Record In 100 Breast Prelims To Claim Top Seed At SC Worlds

Evans posted the fastest time of the morning in 1:03.45, knocking nearly a full second off the British Record of 1:04.37 set by Molly Renshaw in 2021.

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