Kaylee McKeown completes backstroke hat-trick at swimming World Cup

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Kaylee McKeown has won her third backstroke title in consecutive days in Budapest to seal the World Cup series crown and a $158,000 jackpot.

Kaylee McKeown has completed an extraordinary weekend in Budapest with a third race win and the lucrative title of overall women's World Cup champion.Kaylee McKeown won all nine backstroke events in the three-meet Swimming World Cup series

Her consolation this time was a World Cup record of 2 minutes 04.81 seconds, which lowered the mark that she had set the previous weekend in Athens even if it did not threaten her own world record of 2:03.14 set in Sydney in March. But though she could not keep up the assault on her Sydney mark, she still destroyed all her opposition, with 200m runner-up Anastasiya Shkurdai, of Belarus, finishing almost five seconds behind her.

Another stellar Australian performance came from Sydneysider Lani Pallister, who took the women's 800m freestyle by more than 7 seconds and broke her own World Cup record in the process, clocking 8:15.11 while improving on the 8:16.82 she had recorded in Berlin.

 

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