100 m breaststroke, men, 25 m pool

What to remember

Not the Olympics, not the World Championships, but a match of the International Swimming League in Eindhoven, Netherlands: that is where Ilya Shymanovich swam the 100 m breaststroke in 55.28 s on November 26, 2021, in a short course pool.

The Belarusian had already broken the record before: on December 20, 2020, he had already lowered it. He is also a former world record holder in the short course 50 m breaststroke. His 2021 season was full: at the European Short Course Championships he won the 50 m and 200 m breaststroke and took silver in the 100 m, and he also became world short course champion in the 100 m breaststroke. In 2018 he had won two silver medals at the World Championships, in the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke.

Olympic since 1968, the distance joined the programme of the World Aquatics Championships in 1973. In short course, the men's record belongs to Shymanovich, the women's to Lithuania's Rūta Meilutytė and Jamaica's Alia Atkinson.