US EditionSpeed Cam: Aussie Becomes Fastest Swimmer in History
McEvoy broke a 17-year-old record with a 20.88s swim, while Haughey won gold and silver, continuing her strong sprint form at the China Open.
- On Friday at the China Open in Shenzhen, Australian Olympic champion Cameron McEvoy broke the 17-year-old 50m freestyle world record, clocking 20.88sec to surpass Cesar Cielo's 2009 mark of 20.91sec.
- McEvoy, who claimed gold at the Paris Olympics, has reinvented his physique in recent years by focusing on speed and strength training to become a dedicated 50m freestyle specialist.
- Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey secured victory in the women's 50m freestyle at the Longgang Universiade Centre Natatorium, also claiming silver in the 200m freestyle on the same evening.
- Cielo offered a classy tribute to McEvoy, while veteran swimming correspondent Ian Hanson wrote, "Power power and more power! Take a bow & takes down one of swimming's longest standing world marks."
- The milestone arrives as top swimmers consider the Enhanced Games, where performance-enhancing drugs are permitted; McEvoy's time is 0.01sec faster than an unofficial mark set at that event last year.
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Hardly anyone expected this: Olympic champion Cameron McEvoy swims over 50 metres of freestyle to a world record – without a high-tech suit.
“Congratulations, Cam! Swim fast! Amazing! A while ago I saw a phrase that sums up perfectly what you’ve been doing: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.” To change something, you have to build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete,” wrote on their social networks the swimmer César Cielo even in the early hours of Friday in Brazil, when he rose with a bittersweet news. Australian Cameron McEvoy deleted it from …
Australian swimmer Cameron McEvoy set a world record in the 50-meter freestyle at a competition in China, consigning a result from years ago to the dustbin of history.
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