Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown clocked the fourth-fastest women's 400m medley in history on Thursday. The 22-year-old holds world records in all three backstroke distances (50, 100, and 200m).
She broke the Australian record set by Stephanie Rice at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was almost six seconds faster than anyone else this year over the distance. The swimmer said she had no plans to compete in the distance at the Olympic Games in Paris, three months before the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She said: "I did it and I'm glad I did it. It's good to challenge yourself." The performance comes a day after she became only the fifth woman to go under 2min 7sec in the 200m Medley, again breaking a former Australian record owned by Rice.