Regan Smith made it two world records in two days at the Swimming Scene Cup 2024 Singapore on Saturday (2 November).
Having brought down her own ladies’ 100m backstroke short course blemish on Friday, the American controlled to triumph in the 200m backstroke in 1:58.83. That was a little more than a 10th inside Kaylee McKeown’s time set in November 2020.
It was Smith’s third world record in the series, having broken the 100m backstroke record last week in Incheon, with just Kate Douglass ready to get her in the general ladies’ Reality Cup standings.
“Kaylee gets back home areas of strength for so’s, what she’s astounding at,” Smith said of McKeown, who exited the current year’s Reality Cup. “That is the reason she’s the most elite. I can feel it getting back home, totally, and I was pursuing it.”
Smith currently holds the world records in the 100m back in both 25-and 50-meter pools notwithstanding the 200m back short course.
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Leon Marchand proceeded with his Reality Cup hot streak with an agreeable triumph in the men’s 400m variety.
The four-time Olympic boss, who broke the men’s 200 IM short course world record on Friday, was the main competitor to complete under four minutes, halting the clock at 3:58.45 to land his 10th World Cup title.
A couple of races later, the Frenchman, possibly over-applied by his bustling timetable, completed second to Extraordinary England’s Duncan Scott in the men’s 200m free-form, while Olympic 100m free-form champion Dish Zhanle took third.
Somewhere else on the last night of contest, Individuals’ Republic of China’s Yang Junxuan won the ladies’ 800m free-form in 8:34.77, while Sweden’s Louise Hansson fixed the ladies’ 100m butterfly title in 55.46.
Noe Ponti of Switzerland, who further developed his men’s 50m butterfly world record in the first part of the day’s warms with a period of 21.50, won the last in the hour of 21.64.
South Africa’s Pieter Coetze caused a shock in the men’s 100m back, where he pipped Olympic 100m champion Thomas Ceccon to best position in 49.36, before Kate Douglass of Group USA defeated Hong Kong, China’s Siobhan Haughey in the ladies’ 100m free.
The last occasion of the meet saw China’s Yu Yiting land the ladies’ 200m mixture title in a period of 2:03.99.
