Kaylee McKeown has carried on from where she left off at the Olympics, blasting to a short course world record in the 100m backstroke at the Australian Championships in Adelaide.
It eclipsed the five-year-old record of 54.89 set by fellow Australian Minna Atherton in Budapest during the International Swimming League season in 2019.
Remarkably, the Queenslander, who's already qualified for the World Short Course Championships in Budapest in December thanks to her Olympic heroics, only entered the national event because she felt somewhat bored since getting home from her Paris exploits.ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that's making headlines.
With her coach Michael Bohl taking a break, McKeown has been training under his assistant Janelle Pallister at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. Lani Pallister took the 200m freestyle title, clocking 1min 52.73sec, ahead of Leah Neale , with both earning their trips to Budapest.
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