Kate Douglass began the 2024 Short Course World Championships in Budapest, Hungary with a splash by breaking a decade-old world record in the 200 IM. Additionally, Team USA, consisting of Pelham native Douglass, Katharine Berkoff, Alex Shackell, and Gretchen Walsh, set the world record for the 4×100 women’s freestyle relay on Tuesday.

Both races, as part of the Short Course World Championships, were specific to short course pools, which are 25-meters long, while long course races, such as the ones at the Olympics, are contested in 50-meter pools.

In the 200 IM, Douglass beat Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszú’s world record of 2:01.86 with a time of 2:01.63, according to SwimSwam.

Douglass then joined Berkoff, Shackell, and Walsh to finish the 4×100 freestyle relay race with a final time of 3:25.01, 0.42 seconds faster than the previous world record of 3:25.43 set by Team Australia- Mollie O’Callaghan, Madi Wilson, Meg Harris, and Emma McKeon- in 2022, according to SwimSwam.

Douglass’s new world records followed her world-record performance in the short-course 200m breaststroke at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in October and visit to the Picture House in November.

Her success this week comes after her stellar performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she won gold medals in the women’s 200m breaststroke and the women’s 4×100 medley relay and silver medals in the women’s 200m IM and the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay.

Douglass also holds the U.S. records in the 50m freestyle and 200m breaststroke in long-course pools.