Douglass breaks 50m free world record at Indy Pro Swim (opens in new tab)

The versatile Douglass, the 200m breaststroke gold medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, sliced two-hundredths of a second off the previous world record of 23.61 set by Sweden's Sjostrom at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, on July 29, 2023. Douglass shattered her personal best of 23.91 -- the previous American record she shared with Gretchen Walsh. To do so she powered past Walsh in the closing 15 meters, beaming in astonishment when she saw the time on the scoreboard. "I mean, wow,...