Ilya Kharun swims to new Canadian record in win at Tyr Pro Meet

Ilya Kharun set a new Canadian record on the way to a victory in the men's 50m butterfly final on Friday at the Tyr Pro Meet in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The Montreal swimmer, 19, touched the wall in 23.09 seconds to score the win and eclipse the previous Canadian record of 23.25 held by Finlay Knox since early 2024.

Kharun's time on Friday was also a Pro Series Swim record, breaking the 23.11 mark set by Matt Targett in 2012.

Kharun won Olympic bronze medals at Paris 2024 in the 100m and 200m butterfly.

McIntosh nears personal best

Fellow Canadian Summer McIntosh nearly matched her personal best time in the women's 200m backstroke final. The Toronto swimmer finished in second place, touching the wall in 2:06.82. That's just 0.01 back of her best mark, set in 2023.

McIntosh was just 0.50 behind the winner, Regan Smith. The American is the world-record holder in the 100m backstroke.

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The Toronto native and three-time Olympic champion will leave her Sarasota, Fla., training base following this summer's world championship. Among her future options could be joining American coach Bob Bowman, former coach of Michael Phelps, in Texas.

Saturday is the final day of action at the meet, where McIntosh is scheduled to swim in the 200m breaststroke and the 100m butterfly..

In other Canadian results from Fort Lauderdale on Friday, Shona Branton (Port Lambton, Ont.) and Sophie Angus (Weston, Conn.) finished sixth and eighth in the women's 50m breaststroke, respectively. Toronto's Penny Oleksiak was sixth in the women's 50m butterlfy final.

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Ledecky breaks own 800m freestyle world record

American Katie Ledecky shattered her own 800m freestyle world record on Saturday, clocking eight minutes 4.12 seconds to better the previous mark of 8:04.79 that she set at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Ledecky paced a masterful race, surging ahead through 400m before briefly ceding ground at the 450m and 500m marks. By 550m she had reclaimed the lead, and a blistering final leg saw her narrowly edge the world record pace at 700m.

The record-breaking swim capped an extraordinary series of performances for Ledecky, who posted her second-fastest 400m freestyle time on Thursday, her best in nine years and the second-fastest 1500m freestyle time in history on Wednesday.

Before Saturday’s feat, Ledecky’s most recent world record in a 50m pool came in the 1500m freestyle in May 2018. The 27-year-old now holds 15 world records in the 50m pool â€" including six in the 800m free â€" and added to her tally with records in the 25m pool in 2022.