Australian Lani Pallister crushed Katie Ledecky's 800m freestyle short course world record on Saturday, roaring to victory in 7min 54.00sec as the Toronto World Cup closed with five world records on the day.

Pallister sliced 3.42sec off the world record that US great Ledecky set at a World Cup meeting in Indianapolis on November 5, 2022 -- and easily out-paced runner-up Erika Fairweather of New Zealand, who was second in 8:09.69

Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands threw down a short course world record of 1:59.52 to win the men's 200m breaststroke, becoming the first to break the two-minute barrier as he bettered the previous mark of 2:00.16 set by Russian Kirill Prigoda at the 2018 short course world championships in Hangzhou, China.

American Kate Douglass lowered her own short course wo

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