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Alia Atkinson Blasts 28.68 World S/C Record To Turn Another Pioneering Page
- Updated: October 26, 2016
Alia Atkinson (JAM) cracked the world short-course 50m breaststroke record with a 28.64 blast in the concluding session of the Tokyo round of the World Cup today.
Joint global-standard bearer in the 100m with Ruta Meilutyte, the short-course ace swept past the 28.80 dash mark that had stood to Jessica Hardy * (USA) since the last season of shiny suits in 2009.
Atkinson, whose best long-course effort is a 30.11, compared to Meilutyte’s world mark of 29.48, is a pioneer for her country, in 2014 becoming the first black swimmer and Jamaican to claim a world world swimming title, at the short-course gathering that year.
Having shared the world 100m s/c mark with Meilutyte, Atkinson is now the first Jamaican to hold a world swimming record in her own …
