Kate Douglass wins another swimming world title, breaks another world record in epic 2024

Make that 14 global swimming medals for Kate Douglass in 2024.

Douglass, a 23-year-old American, won the 200m breaststroke in world record time at the world short course championships on Friday. Douglass, who later took silver in the 100m individual medley, is putting the finishing touches on an all-time year.

In the 200m breast, she clocked 2 minutes, 12.50 seconds, in Budapest, taking 22 hundredths off the world record she set at a World Cup on Oct. 31.

The former rubber duck collector prevailed by 2.64 seconds over Russian Yevgeniya Chikunova, the long-course world record holder.

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Douglass previously won the 200m individual medley at short course worlds in world record time on Tuesday, the opening day of the six-day meet.

In 2024, Douglass won five medals at the long course world championships in February (the first long course worlds held in an Olympic year); four medals at the Paris Olympics in July and August and so far four medals at short course worlds.

She won individual and relay gold at each of the three meets, including 200m breast titles at the Olympics and short course worlds and 200m individual medley titles at both worlds.

Douglass can win more medals at short course worlds, which run through Sunday. Finals each day are at 11:30 a.m. ET, live on Peacock.

Short course worlds are held in 25-meter pools rather than the 50-meter pools used at the Olympics, long course worlds and other major international meets.

Later Friday, Regan Smith won the world title and broke the world record in the 50m backstroke.

She touched in 25.23 seconds, two hundredths faster than Canadian Maggie Mac Neil’s world record from 2022. Smith now owns all three backstroke world records in 25-meter pools (50m, 100m, 200m).

Gretchen Walsh broke two world records in about a half-hour span. She has now broken six individual world records — two times each in three different events — in a four-day span.

She took 1.18 seconds off the 100m butterfly world record Friday between the morning preliminary heats and the evening semifinals.

With that, she became the first swimmer in 20 years to break the world records in long course and short course meters and the American record in short course yards in the same individual event in one year, according to USA Swimming.

About a half-hour after her 100m fly semi, Walsh won the 100m individual medley final, lowering the world record for a second consecutive day. More on Walsh’s feats here.