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King Makes History with 200-Meter World Title
6/23/2022 3:28:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Former Indiana swimming and diving standout Lilly King won her first-ever 200-meter breaststroke world title at the 19th FINA World Championships on Thursday (June 23) in Budapest and made American swimming history while doing so.
Per Braden Keith, editor-in-chief of the swimming and diving news website SwimSwam, "King is the first American swimmer, male or female, to win a career treble of golds in the 50-100-200 [meter] of any stroke at the long course world championships."
The Evansville, Indiana, native earned her 15th-career world championship medal and 13th gold (combined long course and short course). She previously doubled as the 50-and-100-breaststroke winner at both the 2017 and 2019 championships.
King completed the triple Thursday, swimming the 200-meter race in 2:22.41. She blazed through the final 50 meters in 36.36 to pass Australian Jenna Strauch (2:23.04) and fellow American Kate Douglass (2:23.20).
The 200-meter breaststroke victory is King's second gold of this year's championships after she swam in the preliminary of Team USA's 4x100-meter mixed medley relay on Tuesday. King placed fourth in the 100-meter breaststroke on Monday, finishing in 1:06.07, and will swim the preliminary of her final event, the 50-meter breaststroke, on Friday.
King competed at IU from 2016-19 and won all eight NCAA titles combined in the 100-and-200-yard breaststroke events during that span. She is also a four-time Olympic medalist between the 2016 and 2020 games.
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Per Braden Keith, editor-in-chief of the swimming and diving news website SwimSwam, "King is the first American swimmer, male or female, to win a career treble of golds in the 50-100-200 [meter] of any stroke at the long course world championships."
The Evansville, Indiana, native earned her 15th-career world championship medal and 13th gold (combined long course and short course). She previously doubled as the 50-and-100-breaststroke winner at both the 2017 and 2019 championships.
King completed the triple Thursday, swimming the 200-meter race in 2:22.41. She blazed through the final 50 meters in 36.36 to pass Australian Jenna Strauch (2:23.04) and fellow American Kate Douglass (2:23.20).
The 200-meter breaststroke victory is King's second gold of this year's championships after she swam in the preliminary of Team USA's 4x100-meter mixed medley relay on Tuesday. King placed fourth in the 100-meter breaststroke on Monday, finishing in 1:06.07, and will swim the preliminary of her final event, the 50-meter breaststroke, on Friday.
King competed at IU from 2016-19 and won all eight NCAA titles combined in the 100-and-200-yard breaststroke events during that span. She is also a four-time Olympic medalist between the 2016 and 2020 games.
@IndianaSwimDive
Be sure to keep up with all the latest news on the Indiana men's and women's swimming and diving teams on social media – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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