Australia surprise themselves as supersuit record beaten

It was a world record that few expected to be broken any time soon. "World record," she exclaimed as she looked at the screen after world 100 freestyle champion Cate Campbell touched to stop the clock at three minutes, 30.98 seconds, eclipsing the 3:31.72 set by a flying Netherlands team five years earlier. The record by that Dutch team had been set in the madness that surrounded the 2009 world swimming championships in Rome, when 43 world marks were shattered - many aided by the use of polyurethane bodysuits that have since been outlawed. "Not only a world record, but a supersuits world record," Cate Campbell told the Sydney Morning Herald after she anchored the team of younger sister Bronte, Schlanger and Emma McKeon to gold.
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