2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, December 13 to Sunday, December 18, 2022
- Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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While competing on day three of the 2022 Short Course World Championships, Dutch ace Tes Schouten scored a new national record in the women’s 100m breaststroke.
Finishing with the silver medal behind winner Lilly King of the United States (1:02.67), Schouten reached the wall in a time of 1:03.90 for a new lifetime best.
Schouten’s result this evening is especially remarkable given the fact the 21-year-old had never been under the 1:04 threshold before competing here in Melbourne.
Entering this competition, Schouten’s career-quickest stood at the 1:04.71 she logged just this past October while competing on the FINA World Cup circuit. She dropped that down by just under half a second to a new PB of 1:o4.22 in the heats yesterday morning and was just off that result with a semi-final time of 1:04.31 in the evening.
Flashforward to tonight, however, and Schouten’s 1:03.90 dropped her into entirely new territory. In doing so she sliced .06 off of the longstanding Dutch national record of 1:03.96 Moniek Nijhuis put on the books 8 years ago.
Schouten’s splits this evening included 30.06 on the front half and 33.84 on the way home. That edged out Germany’s Anna Elendt who was right behind in 1:04.05 for bronze.
Schouten has already been on a tear this season, wrangling up two national records in long course. Competing at the Rotterdam Qualification meet earlier this month, she posted 1:06.09 in the 100m breast and 2:23.67 in the 200m breast to become her nation’s fastest-ever in both events.
