{"id":77453,"date":"2026-08-15T17:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/american-kate-douglass-reclaims-50m-freestyle-world-record-at-pan-pacs\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:54:47","slug":"american-kate-douglass-reclaims-50m-freestyle-world-record-at-pan-pacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/american-kate-douglass-reclaims-50m-freestyle-world-record-at-pan-pacs\/","title":{"rendered":"American Kate Douglass reclaims 50m freestyle world record at Pan Pacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American clocks 23.49sec in Pan Pacs heats<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Douglass reclaims record from teammate Walsh<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Pair to meet again in Saturday night\u2019s final<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kate Douglass shattered the women\u2019s 50m freestyle world record on Saturday, clocking 23.49sec in the heats at the Pan Pacific Championships to set a tantalizing showdown with former record-holder Gretchen Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>Douglass improved on the world mark of 23.55sec that fellow-American Walsh set on 28 June at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/15\/kate-douglass-50m-freestyle-world-record-gretchen-walsh-pan-pacs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American clocks 23.49sec in Pan Pacs heats Douglass reclaims record from teammate Walsh Pair to meet again in Saturday night\u2019s final Kate Douglass shattered the women\u2019s 50m freestyle world record on Saturday, clocking 23.49sec in the heats at the Pan Pacific Championships to set a tantalizing showdown with former record-holder Gretchen Walsh. Douglass improved on &#8230; <a title=\"American Kate Douglass reclaims 50m freestyle world record at Pan Pacs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/american-kate-douglass-reclaims-50m-freestyle-world-record-at-pan-pacs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about American Kate Douglass reclaims 50m freestyle world record at Pan Pacs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}