Sarah Sjöström shatters the world record on 50m butterfly

New World Record 24.43 old 25.07

[darwoodji]

50m butterfly without one single breath....incredible.

[rubenpuls]

2023 now and no other swimmer has been near this time. The former WR that she beats here 25.07 by Therese Alshammar (SWE) is still the best time set by other athletes. Sjöström herself has made 25.07 or faster at 22 other occasions since this race:
24.60 (2017)
24.69 (2015)
24.76 (2017)
24.79 (2019)
24.87 (2014)
24.89 (2023)
24.90 (2017)
24.95 (2017, 2022)
24.96 (2015, 2017, 2022)
24.98 (2014)
24.99 (2016)
25.02 (2017, 2019)
25.05 (2022)
25.06 (2015)
25.07 (2015, 2016, 2018, 2023)

[jedimusic]

did she swim that without breathing? Amazing

[MrVpassenheim]

Practically perfect racing. She has the potential to be the first sub 55 swimmer in the 100 distance.

[khaledabdulghani]

It really is disappointing how this MONSTER swim by Sjostrom is perceived. I'm pretty sure a high caliber swimmer such as herself periodically takes part in drug testing. No success goes unnoticed by FINA and it is their job to make sure nothing illegal was involved in it. Now I agree that the drop was significant, her PB coming in was about 25.2. Though it seems plausible to me. A 50 is determined by the start, the surfacing and the finish, after all. She nailed those 3 and went the whole stretch without a single breath. Plus it's not like Sjostrom came out of nowhere. Everyone knows and expects her to perform, she got gold at 14 years in Euros back in '08 for god's sake.

[mrlargo]

That finish is't even perfect, she is amazing! She is the female version of Micheal Phepls, or Micheal is the male version of Sjötröm

[agusromero]

this only proves sarah sjostrom has gills

[dobadobado]

Ahhhhrg skulle vara så bra om det var OS!! Fantastiskt!!!

[fotbollsvictor]

She breaks world record in their city she was born

[Ineddiblehulk]

f my favourite swimmers, SO talented but man does she under perform at the big meets :/

[randomchannel-pxho]

It is rare for huge inprovements of a world record, but if yoy look at the 400 in running you see how it is possible to cream a world record. The same way rafael munoz did in the mens 50 butterfly.

[videoua]

Euro Meet 2020 - Vladislav Bukhov set a new junior world record of 23.14 in the 50m butterfly
Bukhov sliced 0.08secs from the previous WJR set by Michael Andrew at the World Junior Championships in August 2017 en-route to second behind world-record holder and fellow Ukrainian Andriy Govorov who touched in 23.07.
Irina Tereshchenko became a two-time silver medalist of the world championship on swimming

Ukraine has collected all records world-butterfly
Now the 50m butterfly Ukraine belongs not only the adult but also Junior record

Euro Meet 2020 - Український плавець Владислав Бухов встановив новий світовий юніорський рекорд на дистанції 50 м батерфляєм.
Українці завоювали п'ять медалей. Михайло Романчук став першим на дистанції 1500 м вільним стилем, Дар'я Зевіна виграла золото на дистанції 100 м на спині, а Ігор Трояновський - бронзу на дистанції 200 м.

[fopperer]

they banned the old hightech suits and guess what? here are the new ones

[mikhailsungurov]

This is obviously the result of steroids. I'm a swimmer myself and you don't just take off .7 from the world record in a 50!! She was obviously disappointing in her performance from london so she decided to take some illegal substances. You don't see men taking off that much in a 50 world record and women normally stop improving in swimming after 17 so this is not physically possible and training can only help, so much this was definitely steroids or some other drug.