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Canadian Para swimmer Danielle Dorris made it three world records in three days at the Canadian short-course championships in Sherbrooke, Que., breaking the world mark in the SM7 100-metre individual medley on Saturday night.
Dorris, a 22-year-old from Moncton, N.B., posted a time of one minute 22.57 seconds in the 25-metre pool. She had already set the Americas record during the morning preliminaries in 1:23.50.
New Zealand’s Nikita Howarth held the previous world record of 1:23.07, set at her country’s national championships in 2020.
“Coming into this meet, I was expecting to break a few records, but tonight was a bit of a surprise,” Dorris said. “I didn’t know exactly what the previous record was, so I didn’t know if I could lower it. I’m definitely very happy that it worked, and it’s a nice confidence boost before going into [long-course] worlds in Singapore next month.”
Dorris broke the world record in the S7 50m butterfly — her signature event — twice on Thursday. The two-time Paralympic champion clocked 33.38 in the preliminaries before shaving .27 seconds off in the final.
She also holds the long-course world record in the S7 50 fly, having clocked 32.99 to win her first Paralympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021.
Dorris, who swims for the Codiac Vikings Aquatic Club, set the S7 50m backstroke world record on Friday with a time of 35.20. She will swim the 50m freestyle on Sunday to conclude the meet.
Dorris was born with underdeveloped arms due to a condition called bilateral radial dysplasia.
She made history at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro as a 13-year-old, becoming the youngest Canadian swimmer ever to compete at the Paralympics.
Dorris has won three Paralympic medals and six world-championship medals in her career, including a successful title defence in the 50m butterfly at Paris 2024.
The World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore will run from Sept. 21 to 27.
