Category: world swimming record

Swim Star McKeown Breaks 200M Backstroke World Record

Kaylee McKeown has smashed the 200m backstroke world record on the opening night of finals at the 2023 New South Wales (NSW) State Open Championships. The 21-year-old from Griffith University in Queensland clocked a time of two minutes 03.14 seconds to clip 0.21 seconds off American Regan Smith’s time set at the 2019 World Championships…


Romanian Teen Swimmer Popovici Breaks 100-Meter Freestyle World Record

ROME—Seventeen-year-old David Popovici of Romania became the youngest swimmer to break the world swimming record in the men’s 100-meter freestyle Saturday, beating the mark set more than 13 years ago in the same pool. Popovici touched in 46.86 seconds at the European championships to top the time of 46.91 set by Brazil’s César Cielo at…