{"id":444328,"date":"2026-05-25T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444328\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:56:11","slug":"kristian-gkolomeev-breaks-swimming-world-record-at-enhanced-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444328\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristian Gkolomeev breaks swimming world record at Enhanced Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred Kerley ran 100m in a pedestrian 9.97 seconds Sunday night to win the Enhanced Games in a race where the sprinters had to be placed in the starting blocks four times because of false starts and untied shoes.<\/p>\n

Kerley, who predicted Usain Bolt’s world record of 9.58 seconds would get “destroyed”, ran a time that would have placed him last at the Paris Olympics two years ago, where he actually won a bronze medal.<\/p>\n

How many records were broken at controversial ‘Enhanced Games’ – Watch on TVNZ+<\/a><\/p>\n

The competition\u2019s being described as the Olympics on steroids. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

The only athlete to break a world record over the four hours of swimming, weightlifting and track was Kristian Gkolomeev, who closed the night by swimming the 50m free in 20.81 seconds.<\/p>\n

\"Kristian<\/p>\n

Kristian Gkolomeev, of Greece, celebrates after winning the men’s 100-meter freestyle final at the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

That record won’t go into the books, however, because the Enhanced Games, true to its name, allows performance-enhancing drugs that are banned in mainstream sports.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s 50m freestyle world record of 20.88 seconds was set two months ago in a sanctioned event by Cameron McEvoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fred Kerley ran 100m in a pedestrian 9.97 seconds Sunday night to win the Enhanced Games in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[84183,64445,4480,19552,2944,84184,6804,6267,111,139,69,19098,213,9880],"class_list":["post-444328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-controls","tag-dashboard","tag-drive","tag-driver","tag-inside","tag-interior","tag-light","tag-male","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-safe","tag-sports","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}