2026 Pan Pacific Championships: Kate Douglass sets 50-meter freestyle world record for the 2nd time in 1 day

Hours after setting a new WR, Douglass did it again, posting a mind-boggling time of 23:19 and shaving 0.3 seconds off her time from Saturday morning.

American clocks 23.19sec to win final at Pan Pacs Douglass had first broken record with 23.49sec in heats Kate Douglass lowered her own world record in the women’s 50m freestyle for the second time Saturday, winning the final in 23.19 seconds. In the morning preliminaries, she swam 23.49 to take the mark away from te

Aug 15 : American Kate Douglass reclaimed the women's 50 metres freestyle world record on Saturday, clocking 23.49 seconds in the preliminaries at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine, California.Douglass and fellow American Gretchen Walsh, her training partner and former University of Virginia teammate, ha

August 15, 2026 / 3:01 PM EDT / AP Add CBS News on Google Kate Douglass set a world record in the women's 50-meter freestyle in the preliminary heats of the Pan Pacific Championships on Saturday.The 24-year-old from the New York City suburb of Pelham touched in 23.49 seconds in her heat at the outdoor pool in Irvine, C

Kate Douglass blazes to 50-meter freestyle world record  espn.com

Kate Douglass blazes to 50 free world record in Pan Pacific prelims  Toronto Star

Kate Douglass has set a world record in the women's 50-meter freestyle at the Pan Pacific Championships

Douglass held the record for nine days in June before U.S. teammate Gretchen Walsh surpassed her. Now, she has it again.