New Zealand Olympian Helena Gasson has finished her swimming career in style on the final day of racing at the World Short Course Swimming Championship in Budapest, Hungary.
Gasson from the Coast Swim Club broke the New Zealand record in the 100m backstroke by leading off the women's 4x100m medley relay with a time of 57.04 seconds in Heat one.
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Thirty-year-old Gasson combined in the relay team with Brearna Crawford (Waitakere Swimming Club), Hazel Ouwehand (Phoenix Aquatics) and Zoe Pedersen (Coast Swim Club), demolished the New Zealand record in the 4x100m medley relay, taking nearly four seconds off the previous best.
Gasson raced a 57.04 split which broke her own 100m backstroke set earlier on day one of the championships, going 0.39 seconds faster.
Crawford was next on the breaststroke leg, with the Indiana University senior touching second at halfway (1:07.13 split).
Ouwehand (59.27 split), who raced in the semifinal in the 100m butterfly on day four, returned to the pool for her final swim of the championships, where she maintained the second position for 17-year-old Pedersen to set a fast freestyle split (53.58) and anchor the team home in second place in their heat behind the Neutral Athletes team.
The team record a time of 3:57.02 breaking the New Zealand record set in Melbourne two years ago by nearly four seconds to finish 12th overall.