American swimmer Mary Descenza broke the women's 200m butterfly world record in the heats at the world swimming championships here on Wednesday.
Descenza clocked 2 minutes 04.14 seconds to beat the previous mark of 2:04.18 set by Chinese Liu Zige in winning Olympic gold on August 14 last year in Beijing.
"I didn't even think that I was able to swim that fast," Descenza said. "It was an awesome time. I was so excited when I saw it. I didn't even know it was a world record."
Descenza, who called her failure to make the US team for the Beijing Olympics the biggest disappointment of her career, said swims like this helped make up for it.
"It's moments like this I live for," she said.
"I obviously didn't have that in my plan, but I'll take it," added Descenza, a Tyr-sponsored swimmer who swam in the all-polyurethane Jaked with the logo blacked out.
Liu settled for the 12th-fastest time in the heats.
Source: Xinhua
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