Seebohm: WR 50m Back 27.95
2008-03-22
Craig Lord
The achievement makes 15-year-old the youngest swimmer ever to hold a 50m world record.

Emily Seebohm, of Australia, has broken her first world record. The 15-year-old stopped the clock at 27.95sec in the non-Olympic 50m backstroke at Australian nationals in Sydney. The time shaves 0.05 off American Hayley McGregory's mark, set last month, and makes Seebohm the youngest swimmer ever to hold a 50m world record. Seebohm clocked 28.14 in heats and the world record in the semis.

'The goal was pretty much all this season to get that world record and being 0.01 off it last time I just had to go under 28 this time,' said, who clocked 28.10 this month when the world record still stood to Yang Li (CHN) at 28.09. 'Aren't the Queenslanders just like the best,' Seebohm was quoted as saying by AAP. 'I am going to be in the Guinness Book of world records.'