{"id":44198,"date":"2026-06-29T06:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/gretchen-walsh-beats-training-partner-kate-douglasss-nine-day-world-record\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:45:32","slug":"gretchen-walsh-beats-training-partner-kate-douglasss-nine-day-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/gretchen-walsh-beats-training-partner-kate-douglasss-nine-day-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Walsh beats training partner Kate Douglass&#8217;s nine-day world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">American swimmer Gretchen Walsh has broken the women&#8217;s 50m freestyle world record just nine days after her training partner Kate Douglass set the mark.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walsh clocked 23.55 seconds at the Sette Colli meeting in Rome on Sunday, beating Douglass&#8217; time from 19 June by 0.04 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair train together at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sweden&#8217;s Sarah Sjostrom, who held the world record before Douglass, finished second behind Walsh in 23.86.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walsh, 23, also holds the the 50m freestyle short-course world record as well as the 100m butterfly long-course mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She won two relay gold medals and two silvers at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/swimming\/articles\/ckg5xq064lno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American swimmer Gretchen Walsh has broken the women&#8217;s 50m freestyle world record just nine days after her training partner Kate Douglass set the mark. Walsh clocked 23.55 seconds at the Sette Colli meeting in Rome on Sunday, beating Douglass&#8217; time from 19 June by 0.04 seconds. The pair train together at the University of Virginia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44200,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44198\/revisions\/44200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}