Kyle Chalmers has given Australia a stunning finish to swimming's world short course championships, anchoring the 4x100m men's medley relay team to a dead-heat world record
Kaylee McKeown makes history with 200m backstroke win
It also meant Australia won a national record 13 golds at the Melbourne short course worlds, bettering the 12 they claimed in the 1995 and 2006 editions. They finished second on the medal table behind the Americans’ 17 golds and Chalmers hailed their gold haul as “incredible”.“You look at the splits ...
Compatriot Grant Hackett is the only other swimmer to achieve the same feat, in the 1500m. “I had no idea and it’s pretty surreal. To be up there with someone like him, it’s phenomenal,” she said. McKeown, Jenna Strauch, Emma McKeon and Meg Harris clocked 3:44.92, but the Americans led throughout to win in 3:44.35 and better their own world mark of 3:44.52.
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