Pelham’s Kate Douglass picked up two more gold medals in relays–each of which also set world records–this weekend at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, bringing her haul to a total of three golds and two silvers for the competition.
Earlier today, Douglass swam the breaststroke leg of the US Women’s team’s 4×100-meter medley relay. The Americans crushed their closest rival, Australia, by more than three seconds en route to a world record. Regan Smith swam the backstroke in the first leg of the race, opening up a slight lead, followed by Douglass, who stretched that lead to a full body length by the halfway point. Gretchen Walsh swam the butterfly in the third leg, and Torri Huske closed out the race in the freestyle segment, maintaining the team’s world record pace to the finish.
“I think we’re really happy with that swim,” said Douglass in a comment to Swimswam. “I think we all knew that if we all swam a really good race, we had the possibility of breaking that record.”
On Saturday, Douglass was part of the US team’s mixed 4x100m freestyle relay, which features two men and two women each swimming a 100-meter leg of the race. The American team, which included Jack Alexy, Patrick Sammon and Huske, beat a Russian team by more than a second, setting a world record.
Earlier this week, Douglass won a gold in the 200-meter breaststroke, setting an American record, a silver in the 100-meter breaststroke and a silver in the women’s 4X100 freestyle relay.
The Singapore championships, which ended Sunday, come one year after the 2024 Paris Olympics, in which Douglass won two gold medals and two silvers.
