McKeown Busts Out 4:28.22 400 IM Aussie Record To Overtake Rice's Beijing Mark
18/04/2024 11:05
By Retta Race on SwimSwam
2024 AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, April 17th – Saturday, April 20th
- Prelims at 10am local (8pm previous night ET), Finals at 6pm local (4am ET)
- Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, Australia
- LCM (50m)
- Non-Olympic Qualifying Event
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Racing on night two of the 2024 Australian Open Championships, a non-Olympic qualifying competition, 22-year-old Kaylee McKeown fired off the best 400m IM time of her already-prolific career.
McKeown of Griffith University produced a monster effort of 4:28.22 to handily defeat the field en route to winning the Aussie national title. In doing so, her time overtook the legendary Stephanie Rice‘s longstanding Australian national record of 4:29.45 that’s been on the books since the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
McKeown attacked the race from start to finish, leading wire-to-wire to crush her previous personal best of 4:31.68 from last year’s Sydney Open, getting under the 4:30 barrier for the first time ever.
She now ranks as the #3 performer of all time in this grueling women’s 4IM.
All-Time Women’s LCM 400 IM Performers
- Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 4:25.87, 2023
- Katinka Hosszu (HUN) – 4:26.36, 2016
- Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 4:28.22, 2024
- Ye Shiwen (CHN) – 4:28.43, 2012
- Stephanie Rice (AUS) – 4:29.45, 2008
This pairs with the mind-boggling 2:06.99 200 IM national record she set last night to become the 5th fastest performer in history.
Despite McKeown’s result coming within striking distance of Canadian Summer McIntosh‘s world record, the Aussie said after her race tonight that she is ‘one and done’ and will not be taking on this event at June’s Olympic Trials.
Splits Comparison
| MCINTOSH – 2023 | MCKEOWN – 2024 | MCKEOWN – 2023 | |
| 100 | 59.47 | 1:01.68 | 1:03.01 |
| 200 | 2:06.39 (1:06.92) | 2:09.99 (1:08.31) | 2:12.77 (1:09.76) |
| 300 | 3:25.31 (1:18.92) | 3:26.16 (1:16.17) | 3:29.38 (1:16.61) |
| 400 | 4:25.86 (1:00.56) | 4:28.22 (1:02.06) | 4:31.68 (1:02.30) |
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