Douglass breaks 50m free world record second time in one day

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 mark of the day.

The American sliced three-tenths of a second off the world record of 23.49sec she set hours earlier in the heats in Irvine, 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.