FYI, we just witnessed history 😧 FINAGwangju2019
. He first won the race at age 15, and he shaved seconds off of his time no fewer than eight times over the span of his career. But all of that became history at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships on Wednesday after a Hungarian teen swimming phenom hit the pool.
Kristóf Milák, at 19 years old, took down Michael's record in emphatic fashion with a blazing time of 1:50.73 seconds. That's .78 seconds faster than Michael's best time, 1:51.51, set at the world championships 10 years ago. At that time, Kristóf was 9 years old. And — for those of you really doing the math — the first time Michael set the record, Kristóf was 1.
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