Liendo Cracks 50 Free Canadian Record Twice, Record #10 and #11 for Canada | SwimSwam

By Spencer Penland on SwimSwam

2021 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

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MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – SEMIS

• World Record: 20.16 – DRESSEL Caeleb (USA) 21 NOV 2020
• Championship Record: 20.26 – MANAUDOU Florent (FRA) 5 DEC 2014
• World Junior Record: 20.98 – SIMONS Kenzo (NED) 22 DEC 2019

Top 8:

1. Ryan Held (USA) – 20.81
2. Joshua Liendo Edwards (CAN) – 20.88
3. Ben Proud (GBR) – 20.95
4. Thom de Boer (NED) – 20.98
5. Lorenzo Zazzeri (ITA) – 21.02
6. Szebasztian Szabo (HUN) – 21.06
7. Maxime Grousset (FRA) – 21.16
8. Ian Ho (HKG) – 21.22

Canadian 19-year-old Josh Liendo finished 2nd in semifinals of the men’s 50 free tonight, clocking a 20.88. Liendo has been fantastic through the first 2 rounds of the event, posting a new personal best of 21.01 in prelims, before bringing that time under 21 seconds here in semis. His prelims swim blew away the previous Canadian Record of 21.34, which was held by Brent Hayden. So, Liendo broke the record twice today, marking his 3rd and 4th individual national records of the week.

Canada has been tearing its national records down all week. Liendo’s performances mark the 10th and 11th Canadian Records of the meet. Here is a breakdown of the 11 Canadian Records that have gone down so far this week.

Canadian Records Through Day 3 Of Short Course Worlds

• Rebecca Smith, 200 freestyle: 1:52.24
• Women’s 4×100 freestyle: 3:28.52
• Women’s 4×50 medley (prelims): 1:45.17
• Women’s 4×50 medley (finals): 1:44.16
• Josh Liendo, 50 butterfly: 50.00
• Josh Liendo, 100 butterfly: 23.13
• Summer McIntosh, 800 freestyle: 8:13.37
• Kylie Masse, 100 backstroke: 55.22
• Mixed 4×50 freestyle: 1:28.55
• Josh Liendo, 50 free (prelims): 21.01
• Josh Liendo, 50 free (semifinals): 20.88

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