2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, December 13 to Sunday, December 18, 2022
- Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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WOMEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – FREESTYLE – FINALS
- World Record: 22.93 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED), 2017
- World Junior Record: 23.69 – Anastasiya Shkurdai (BLR), 2020
Championship Record: 23.08 – Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2021 checked- 2021 Champion: 23.08 – Sarah Sjostrom (SWE)
RESULTS:
- GOLD: Emma McKeon (Australia) – 23.04 (Championship Record)
- SILVER: Katarzyna Wasick (Poland) – 23.55
- BRONZE: Anna Hopkin (Great Britain) – 23.68
- Julie Jensen (Denmark) – 23.71
- Michelle Coleman (Sweden) – 23.72
- Meg Harris (Australia) – 23.73
- Erika Brown (United States) – 23.76
- Melanie Henique (France) – 23.90
In the finals of the 50 free at the 2022 Short Course World Championships, Australian swimmer Emma McKeon won in a time of 23.04, taking 0.04 seconds off of Sarah Sjostrom‘s championship record set last year at the 2021 Short Course world championships. In addition, she also broke the Oceanic record, which was previously a 23.19 from her countrymate Cate Campbell.
McKeon is now the third-fastest performer of all-time in the short course 50 free, sitting only behind Ranomi Kromowidjojo and Sarah Sjostrom. Prior to short course worlds, her best time was 23.50 from the 2021 FINA World Cup, which had her at 13th all-time.
All-Time Top Performers, Women’s 50 Meter Freestyle (SCM)
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Netherlands — 22.93 (2017)
- Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden — 23.00 (2017)
- Emma McKeon, Australia — 23.04 (2022)
- Kasia Wasick, Poland — 23.10 (2022)
- Cate Campbell, Australia — 23.19 (2017)
Earlier on during the meet, McKeon had broken the championship record in the 100 free with a time of 50.77 en route to taking gold. She was also a part of Australia’s 4×100 free relay and 4×50 medley relay, both of which broke the world record.
She absolutely eats up water out front. Really incredible to watch.
She still doesn’t see herself as a 50m sprinter despite Olympic and World Gold, Amazing!
2017 was a fast year for women’s free sprints.
Goat
She just keeps getting better! If she can keep this level for Paris that would be incredible.
She only needs 2 medals in Paris (currently on 11) to become second most medalled swimmer of all time after Phelps. She is currently one ahead of Ledecky (10) so would need to at least match her to keep the lead and the only other names in the conversation are Cate Campbell (8) and Dressel (7). Ledecky needs 3, Cate needs 5 and Dressel needs 6 to leapfrog the current four-way tie of 12 medals.
McKeon is certainly the leader in Oly bronze medals, that much is sure–more than a third of her medals.
She literally has more golds than bronze but ok.
If you’re talking about the list of all time top medal counts, Natalie Coughlin is actually the leader in bronze medals with 5.
Come back when McKeon wins individual gold in four straight Olympics and when she wins even one individual event in a Worlds LCM meet (she’s been to four and skipped this year’s, which was telling) and then maybe, just maybe, you can talk about McKeon’s heavily bronze-weighted medal numbers in the same breath as Phelps’ gold. BTW, don’t overlook that four other women won two individual races each in Tokyo–but McKeon was certainly the luckiest of them all given injury/issues of Sjostrom, Manuel, Campbells, Blume, etc.