{"id":77717,"date":"2022-04-30T13:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T13:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=77717"},"modified":"2022-04-30T13:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T13:49:27","slug":"american-armstrong-sets-swimming-world-record-in-50-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=77717","title":{"rendered":"American Armstrong sets swimming world record in 50 back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><img class=\"wp-image-77718 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Armstrong-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Armstrong-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Armstrong-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Armstrong-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Armstrong-696x387.jpg 696w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Armstrong-1068x594.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Armstrong-756x420.jpg 756w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Armstrong.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\" \/>Sports Desk:<\/strong> American Hunter Armstrong has set a swimming world record in the men\u2019s 50-meter backstroke.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ev-meter-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Armstrong posted a time of 23.71 seconds in the non-Olympic event while competing Thursday night in the International Team Trials at Greensboro, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The meet is selecting the U.S. team that will compete at this summer\u2019s world championships in Budapest, Hungary, an event that was added to the calendar after the 2021 worlds in Fukuoka, Japan, were postponed twice because of the\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/coronavirus\/\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0pandemic. That competition will now be held in 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=indianexpress&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1519934695580049409&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Findianexpress.com%2Farticle%2Fsports%2Fsport-others%2Famerican-armstrong-sets-swimming-world-record-in-50-back-7894018%2F&sessionId=75a42d914a7742c944a8a62b6c4ef71cb2b19df4&siteScreenName=The%20Indian%20Express&theme=light&widgetsVersion=c8fe9736dd6fb%3A1649830956492&width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1519934695580049409\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 21-year-old Armstrong, who attends Ohio State, won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics last summer by swimming the backstroke leg in the prelims of the 4\u00d7100 medley relay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Still, he was stunned by his time in the 50 back, which eclipsed the mark of 23.80 set by Russia\u2019s Kliment Kolesnikov in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Armstrong established an American record in the morning prelims \u2014 then went even faster in the evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt was a complete shock,\u201d he said. \u201cMy best time before this was a 25.50 and in prelims I was able to throw down a 24.00 and that gave me hope, but you know Kolesnikov is one of the fastest backstrokers and freestylers in the world. To be up there with him is just incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Desk: American Hunter Armstrong has set a swimming world record in the men\u2019s 50-meter backstroke. Armstrong posted a time of 23.71 seconds in the non-Olympic event while competing Thursday night in the International Team Trials at Greensboro, North Carolina. The meet is selecting the U.S. team that will compete at this summer\u2019s world championships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":77718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=77717\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American Armstrong sets swimming world record in 50 back - Bornomalanews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sports Desk: American Hunter Armstrong has set a swimming world record in the men\u2019s 50-meter backstroke. 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