Le Clos breaks 200m butterfly record
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South Africa’s Chad Le Clos shattered his own 200m butterfly shortcourse world record in Singapore yesterday as Australia twice powered to new marks in the mixed 4x50m medley relay.
Under stormy skies, the world and Olympic champion produced a lightning swim to touch in 1:48.56, nearly half-a-second under his record set in August and five seconds ahead of the pack.
He later added 50m butterfly gold to extend his lead in the overall standings with just two stops left in the eight-leg series after Singapore.
“I just heard the crowd pick up and I knew that I was under world record pace,” Le Clos said.
“For me it’s just about getting faster each year, and the most important thing is that I keep dominating the events that I am dominating and extending on other events like the freestyle and individual medley races,” he added.
Le Clos, 21, was the star but Australia also caused fireworks with not one but two world records in the newly introduced 4x50m mixed medley relay.
Robert Hurley, Christian Sprenger, Alicia Coutts and Cate Campbell combined for times of 1:39.08 and then 1:38.02, twice bettering France’s record set in Doha last month.
“We’re going to break it again!” Sprenger said. “We’re definitely going to get it again. We’re progressing well and we’re going to be fast.”
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu added to her lead in the overall standings with another two golds, while Russia’s Vladimir Morozov also topped the podium twice at Singapore Sports School.
The evening started in thrilling fashion as New Zealand’s Lauren Boyle held off world record-holder Mireia Belmonte to win the 800m freestyle.
Three-time world sprint champion Roland Schoeman used a vastly superior start to power home in the men’s 50m breaststroke, beating Sprenger.
Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson annihilated the field in the women’s 100m breaststroke to win by nearly two seconds.
Australia’s Emily Seebohm won the women’s 50m backstroke.
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