Canada’s Maggie Mac Neil sets world record, takes backstroke gold at short course worlds | CBC Sports
Canada’s Maggie Mac Neil set a brand new world document on her strategy to her second gold medal on the world quick course championships in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday.
The Canadian blazed to a time of 25.25 seconds within the 50-metre backstroke to assert the highest spot on the rostrum, forward of American Claire Curzan (25.54), and Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan (25.61).
Fellow Canadian Kylie Masse, of La Salle, Ont., completed simply off the rostrum in fourth with a time of 25.81.
WATCH | Mac Neil swims to gold in document time:
Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ont., broke her personal world document, swimming the 50-metre backstroke in a time of 25.25 seconds to win her second gold medal on the world swimming championships (25) in Melbourne.
Mac Neil, of London, Ont., already had a gold medal within the 50-m butterfly on Wednesday, in addition to a bronze medal win as a part of the Canadian staff within the 4x100m remaining on Tuesday.
“I’m ecstatic. I knew it would be hard to go a best time but I just really wanted to see the improvements and I’m glad I did it,” Mac Neil mentioned. “I’ve been learning so much from each swim that I’ve been doing and I think I was able to fix all those little errors tonight.”
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Masse, the reigning world champion, swam within the lane subsequent to her Canadian teammate and lifted her arm in celebration on the end.
“I just said, ‘Incredible job,’ and I told her that she broke the world record because I couldn’t tell if she could see or not,” Masse mentioned of her Mac Neil, who wears glasses exterior of the pool and sometimes squints to see remaining instances on the scoreboard.
“It’s always a pleasure to race next to Maggie. She continues to push me and it’s incredible to be able to be next to her when she does something amazing like that.”
Mac Neil mentioned she appreciates Masse’s help.
“It’s great to swim with Kylie, she’s one of my best friends so it’s just amazing,” mentioned Mac Neil. “We’ve gotten really close over the last couple of years. We both kind of had some struggles with COVID and changing environments and stuff. So we’ve been able to work through that together and I wouldn’t be where I am without her.”
Canadian males share podium
In the boys’s 100m medley, a pair of Canadian swimmers captured medals by breaking the nationwide document within the occasion. Toronto’s Javier Acevedo took silver in 51.05 whereas Finlay Knox, of Okotoks, Alta., swam to bronze in 51.10. Both swimmers touched the wall forward of Acevedo’s earlier Canadian document time.
“Finlay and I have gotten really close in the last couple years. This past fall and summer we’ve gone to concerts together, the international film festival together and just even now sharing the podium is so special. I train with the guy every day and he pushes me and I push him,” Acevedo mentioned.
Italian Thomas Ceccon gained the race in 50.97.
Canada now owns a complete of 9 medals on the meet, together with two gold, two silver and 5 bronze.
WATCH | Acevedo, Knox attain podium collectively:
Toronto’s Javier Acevedo gained silver and set a brand new Canadian document within the males’s 100-metre particular person medley, whereas Finlay Knox of Okotoks, Alta., completed proper behind him on the world swimming championships (25) in Melbourne.
In different Canadian outcomes, Sydney Pickrem of Toronto posted a private greatest 58.26 in the ladies’s 100 particular person medley, ending fourth, whereas Mary-Sophie Harvey, of Trois-Rivières, Que., was eighth (59.11). Pickrem was additionally sixth (2:19.35) within the ladies’s 200m breaststroke remaining.
The males’s 4×200 freestyle relay staff of Knox, Acevedo, Toronto’s Ruslan Gaziev, and Montreal’s Ilya Kharun set a brand new Canadian document on the way in which to a seventh-place end within the remaining. The 4 Canadians posted a time of 6:56.02, obliterating the earlier document of seven:05.77.
Competition in Melbourne runs by way of Sunday.
