Overview
- Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan lowered the women’s short‑course 200m freestyle world record to 1:49.77, becoming the first woman under 1:50 and eclipsing Siobhan Haughey’s 2021 mark.
- Kaylee McKeown won the 200m backstroke in a world record 1:57.87, with Regan Smith second in 1:57.91 as both finished under Smith’s previous standard of 1:58.04.
- Regan Smith equalled her 100m backstroke world record at 54.02 and earlier improved the American 200m butterfly record to 2:00.20 to open the meet.
- American Kate Douglass set a 100m freestyle world record of 50.19, bettering Cate Campbell’s 2017 best, as O’Callaghan took silver in 51.44.
- Ireland’s Ellen Walshe won the 400m individual medley in an Irish record 4:25.38 and Mona McSharry claimed 50m breaststroke gold in 29.59, as the World Cup now heads to Toronto on Oct. 23–25.