Dutch swimmer Marrit Steenbergen sets new women’s 100m freestyle world record with 51.68 seconds at Rome’s Sette Colli International Trophy, surpassing Sarah Sjostrom’s 2017 record of 51.71.
Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey has broken the meet record in the women’s 200m freestyle at the Bergen Swim Festival in Norway. Haughey’s time of one minute, 54.31 seconds not only won gold but was also her fastest time in almost two years. The previous meet record of 1:54.77 was set by Haughey’s Swedish rival Sarah Sjostrom. Haughey’s swim also moved her to third-fastest in the world this season, and is just 0.39 seconds off her own Asian record of 1:53.92, which she set at the Tokyo Olympics in...
