Australian swimmer Lani Pallister has created history to set a record time in the 800m freestyle short course, breaking the US’ Katie Ledecky’s record, roaring to a win in 7min 54 seconds as the Toronto World Cup closed with five world records on the day.

Pallister shattered the world record by 3.42 seconds, eclipsing the mark set by Ledecky at the World Cup in Indianapolis on November 5, 2022 and finished ahead of New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather, who took second in 8:09.69.

Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands made history in the men’s 200m breaststroke, clocking 1:59.52 to set a new short-course world record and become the first swimmer to break the two-minute barrier.

Corbeau went past the previous mark of two minutes set by Russia’s Kirill Prigoda at the 2018 World Championships in

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