Douglass breaks 50m free world record at Indy Pro Swim
Kate Douglass surged home in 23.59sec to break Sarah Sjostrom’s 50m freestyle world record in a scintillating final at the Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis on Friday. The versatile Douglass, the 200m breaststroke gold medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, sliced two-hundredths of a second off the previous world record of 23.61 set by Sweden’s […] The post Douglass breaks 50m free world record at Indy Pro Swim appeared first on The Namibian .

Kate Douglass surged home in 23.59sec to break Sarah Sjostrom’s 50m freestyle world record in a scintillating final at the Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis on Friday.

The versatile Douglass, the 200m breaststroke gold medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, sliced two-hundredths of a second off the previous world record of 23.61 set by Sweden’s Sjostrom at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, on July 29, 2023.


