May 22

On this day in 2022 at Australian Championships in Adelaide, Olympic champions Ariarne Titmus and Zac-Stubblety-Cook joined the World-record holders club with respective global marks in the 400m freestyle and 200m breaststroke.

Titmus's 3:56.40 took down the 3:56.46 at which Katie Ledecky had left the 400m free standard when she claimed Olympic gold at Rio 2016.

Stubblety-Cook's mark of 2:05.95, the first sub-2:06 in history, confined to history the 2:06.12 in which Russian Anton Chupkov Russia had claimed the World title in 2019.

On the same day, May 22, a year before, in 2021, Benedetta Pilato, of Italy, also stamped her ticket to the club, when she raced inside American Lily King's 2017 50m breaststroke standard.

Titmus would go on to break the mark once more, as the first ever inside 3:56, at Fukuoka 2023 Worlds, on the way to retaining the 400m free crown at Paris 2024 as the first woman to achieve that feat since Martha Norelius, USA, kept the crown in 1928:

Fukuoka 2023

W400 Free - Ariarne Titmus Turns Three-Way Fight Into A Left-Right Knockout With 3:55.38 World Record - StateOfSwimming

AAriarne Titmus made it a battle of one when it came to gold, her 3:55.38 World-record 400 free victory delivering a knockout blow

StateOfSwimmingCraig Lord

Paris 2024:

Titmus Is The First To Keep The Crown Since 1928

Ariarne Titmus became the first woman to retain the 400m freestyle crown since American Martha Norelius kept the title in 1928 in a World record four years after setting an Olympic standard for her first triumph

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

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