Los Angeles, United States, Aug 16, 2026 (AFP) - Douglass breaks 50m freestyle world record second time in one day

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Kate Douglass continued her assault on the 50m freestyle world record on Saturday, clocking a stunning 23.19sec to win Pan Pacific Championships gold with her second world record of the day. The American had regained the world mark with a time of 23.49 in the heats at Irvine, California. That broke the world record of 23.55sec that fellow American Gretchen Walsh set on June 28 in Rome -- where Walsh broke the world mark that Douglass had set on J......

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