The world famous Australian, Cam McEvoy, showed incredible stamina and concentration as he produced a 21.13 heat swim at the World Championships in Doha, nearly setting a new world record with his incredibly fast performance. This has once again put Cesar Cielo’s time of 20.91 set in December 2009 in trouble, a record that has been unbeaten for 15 long years.
The amazing performance was 0.22 seconds faster than McEvoy’s heat swim from Fukuoka last year, which he followed with a world crown-winning swim of 21.06. This makes McEvoy the fourth fastest performer in the history of the event. As the twelfth and final heat concluded, McEvoy led the field with the Ukraine’s Vladislav Bukhov (21.56) and veteran Greek sprinter Kristian Gkolomeev (21.70) closely behind, taking the second and third spots respectively.
McEvoy also came close to breaking Caeleb Dressel‘s Championship mark of 21.04, which was set back in 2019 in Gwangju, missing it by just a mere 0.09. With his impressive performance, McEvoy has entered the list of the top five performers with only Cielo, the 2008 Olympic champion, and Frenchman Fred Bousquets standing as the two other swimmers to have ever swum under 21 seconds, leaving Dressel’s 21.04 as the third fastest time.
Having qualified in first position, Simon Bucher (51.42) from Austria leads the men’s 100m butterfly, showing that the event is wide open with many talented swimmers. Despite winning the final heat, Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto (51.60) posted the second fastest time of the day. Two-time champion, Chad Le Clos from South Africa who took the title in Budapest in 2013 and Kazan in 2015, landed as the equal eighth fastest qualifier into the semi-finals with two-time champion, winning bronze in 2019 with a time of 52.04 along with last night’s 200 individual medley champion, Canadian Finlay Knox.
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