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Kaylee McKeown put a scare into the 50 backstroke world record on Friday, blazing a personal-best 27.02 — just .04 seconds off the Liu Xiang's world record.
Lani Pallister's winning time of 8:16.82 crushed the previous 800 free World Cup record of 8:22.24 set by fellow Australian Kiah Melverton in 2019.
McKeown was more than three seconds off her own world record (2:03.14), but her winning time still took down Emily Seebohm's World Cup record from 2015.
Germany's Angelina Kohler swam the fastest time of the 100 FL heats, positioning her to upset favorites Zhang Yufei & Torri Huske on the last day in Berlin.
Day 2 of finals at the Berlin World Cup gives us a rematch between Sarah Sjostrom and Zhang Yufei (pictured), the Worlds 50 fly gold and silver medalists.