Kaylee McKeown sets a new World 200m women’s backstroke record in a time of 2:03.14
Every body is writing about this fabulous swim so it is hard to say anything new.
What mywaterworld.life has done is look at some of the stats of Kaylee’s magnificent 200 backstroke and we have included, as a comparison, the former world record holder’s times.
Kaylee’s 200m stats
| Meters Under Water (at Start and Turn) | Strokes (per 50m) | Lap time | Split time | DPS* (meters) | Regan Smith (lap time) | Regan Smith (split time) |
| 14 | 32 | 29.32 | 29.32 | 1.13 | 29.06 | 29.06 |
| 10 | 35 | 31.41 | 1:00.73 | 1.14 | 31.31 | 1:00.37 |
| 9 | 36 | 31.11 | 1:31.84 | 1.14 | 31.47 | 1:31.84 |
| 9 | 37 | 31.30 | 2:03.14 | 1.11 | 31.51 | 2:03.35 |
Taking a closer look at this data, Kaylee did a magnificent 2nd 100m – just fabulous pacing. Her 1st 100 was in 60.37 while the 2nd was in 62.41. Kaylee was behind Regan by 0.26 seconds at the 50, and a further 0.10 seconds at the 100 meter mark.
From then on it was all Kaylee who caught up the 0.36 advantage Regan held at the 100m mark on the 3rd 50, and then powered home in a 31.30, outpacing Regan on the last 50 by 0.21 seconds.
mywaterworld.life has located footage of this swim on YouTube that is worth watching.
Controlled pace and an amzingly powerful last 50m by Kaylee – a must watch and a lesson to all.*
The footage on YouTube comes from the BairnOwl channel, while Regan Smith’s times were sourced from a SwimSwam news story from July 26, 1019. mywaterworld.life was poolside in Gwangju when Regan smashed Missy Franklin’s record by 0.71 seconds.
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