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American Kate Douglass broke the 50m freestyle world record twice in one day as she dominated at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine, California.<\/b><\/p>\n
The double Olympic champion won the final in a blistering 23.19 seconds, shattering the 23.49 world record she set hours earlier in the heats.<\/p>\n
It marks the third time 24-year-old Douglass has broken the world record after swimming 23.59 in June before compatriot Gretchen Walsh lowered the mark to 23.55 nine days later.<\/a><\/p>\n Walsh finished second in the final with a time of 23.74, with Australia’s Meg Harris coming third.<\/p>\n At the European Aquatics Championships in Paris, Germany’s Johannes Liebmann knocked nearly four seconds off the world record in the men’s 1500m freestyle.<\/p>\n The 19-year-old completed the distance in 14 minutes 26.79 seconds – 3.88secs faster than the previous record which was set by American Bobby Finke at the 2024 Olympics, also held in the French capital.<\/p>\n Liebmann became the first swimmer to go under 14:30 for the distance as he slashed the most time off the record since Australia’s Grant Hackett in 2001.<\/p>\n Three-time Olympic champion Hackett took more than seven seconds off when he swam 14:34.56 – a record which stood for 10 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n