Australia’s most successful Olympian ever, Emma McKeon, lead Australia’s womens 4 x 100 relay team to gold at the World Swimming Championships - breaking a world record.
Emma McKeon became the first woman ever to swim a sub-50 second 100m split in Melbourne last night, swimming with her split of the race coming in at 49.96.
m at 49.96.
McKeon’s time overtakes fellow Aussie Cate Campbell’s 50.38 from 2019 as the all-time fastest relay split.
The team of Mollie O’Callaghan (52.28), Meg Harris (52:00) Madison Wilson (51.28) Meg Haris (52) and McKeon (49.96) set the world record at 3:25.43, taking over a full second off of the Netherlands’ time of 3:26.53 from 2014.
The Aussies were sitting 0.98 seconds behind the lead in third before McKeon charged home in just under 50 seconds to secure a spectacular comeback win.
The US and Canada came in second and third.
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