McKeown smashes backstroke world record

Updated November 29 2020 - 11:06pm, first published November 28 2020 - 4:07pm
Australia's Kaylee McKeown has swum a world short-course record 1:58.94 in the 200m backstroke.
Australia's Kaylee McKeown has swum a world short-course record 1:58.94 in the 200m backstroke.

Teenage Olympic hopeful Kaylee McKeown has set the 'virtual' Australian national short-course swimming championships alight by smashing the six-year-old 200m backstroke world record in Brisbane.