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Kate Douglass continued her assault on the 50m freestyle world record on Saturday, clocking a stunning 23.19sec to win Pan Pacific Championships gold.
Kate Douglass breaks 50m freestyle world record. (Picture Credit: AP)
Kate Douglass continued her assault on the 50m freestyle world record on Saturday, clocking a stunning 23.19sec to win Pan Pacific Championships gold with her second world record of the day.
The American knocked three-tenths of a second off the world record of 23.49sec she set hours earlier in the heats at Irvine in California.
That broke the world record of 23.55sec set by fellow American Gretchen Walsh on June 28 in Rome — where Walsh broke the world mark that Douglass had set on June 19.
Walsh took silver in 23.74sec while Australia’s reigning world champion Meg Harris was third in 23.89.
Douglass had little time to savor her accomplishment, departing the pool deck to prepare for the 200m breaststroke final on the last day of the four-day meeting that brings together top swimmers from non-European nations.
Hunt bags third Euro gold
Amy Hunt said she was living the “time of my life” after winning her third gold of the European championships in Birmingham by helping Britain to victory in the women’s 4x100m relay on Saturday.
Hunt, who had won the 100 and 200m sprint double at Alexander Stadium in the week, ran the second leg of a flawless relay display in front of a 23,000 sell-out crowd in cool conditions.
The quartet also including Dina Asher-Smith, Success Eduan and Imani Lansiquot clocked 42.05 seconds for victory.
It was a record-equalling seventh continental gold for Asher-Smith, who, having also won two silvers and a bronze, drew level with fellow sprinter Irena Szewinska as the most-decorated European athlete of all time, the Pole having won a total of 10 medals from 1966-1978.
Hunt’s treble gold brought the curtain down on a packed night of track and field that saw the fourth longest triple jump of all time by Italy’s Andy Diaz Hernandez and an outstanding championship record by Germany’s Julian Weber in the javelin.
Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh won a third European title in the high jump with a best of 1.97m, Sweden’s Andreas Almgren shook off the curse of successive fourth-placed finishes and there was a surprise winner in the men’s 1,500m in the shape of Dutchman Stefan Nillessen.
(With inputs from AFP)
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