FILE PHOTO: Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Women's 100m Backstroke Semi-Finals - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 22, 2019. Kaylee McKeown of Australia competes. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Tokyo Olympic hopeful Kaylee McKeown has confirmed her rich vein of form by claiming a 200 metres backstroke short course world record at the virtual Australian national championships in Brisbane.
The teenager clocked one minute 58.94 seconds on Friday to take nearly half a second off Hungarian Katinka Hosszu's 2014 mark (1:59.23).
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