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Ilya Kharun set another Canadian swimming record, lowering his mark with a 21.67-second clocking in the men’s 50-metre butterfly at the world short course championships on Wednesday in Budapest, Hungary.

Kharun’s previous best was 22.28 from this event two years ago in Melbourne.

A two-time Olympic medallist, the 19-year-old from Montreal is also the 200m national record holder in long course (50m pool) with a time of 1:52.80.

Noe Ponti of Switzerland took Wednesday’s race in a world record 21.32.

Nyls Korstanje of the Netherlands grabbed bronze (21.68).

Earlier, Calgary’s Ingrid Wilm picked up her second consecutive bronze medal in the women’s 100-metre backstroke at the world short course swimming championships on Wednesday in Budapest, Hungary.

The 26-year-old was third after 25 metres and remained there at the finish, posting a time of 55.75 seconds.

WATCH | Wilm collects women’s backstroke bronze in Budapest:

Wilm, who won the first of two semifinals in 55.85, gained a measure of revenge against Australia’s Iona Anderson, who was fourth (56.08).

They battled for silver down the stretch at long course worlds in February, with Anderson touching the wall first in 59.12 in Doha, Qatar, 6-100ths of a second ahead of Wilm, who earned her first medal at the event.

On Tuesday, Wilm helped Canada to bronze in the women’s 100m freestyle relay. The team clocked 3:28.44 and was 38-100ths shy of the national record held by Rebecca Smith, Taylor Ruck and the now-retired pair of Maggie Mac Neil and Katerine Savard.

WATCH | Wilm says race was ‘never supposed to happen’:

Calgary’s Ingrid Wilm credits race that ‘was never supposed to happen’ for latest bronze medal

After winning a bronze medal in the women’s 100-metre backstroke, Ingrid Wilm says she gained confidence from Tuesday’s decision to race the women’s 4×100-metre freestyle relay, where she won her first bronze medal at the World Aquatics short course championships in Budapest.

Regan Smith led a 1-2 American finish on Wednesday in a championship record 54.55, followed by Katharine Berkoff.

Kylie Masse of LaSalle, Ont., was sixth (56.21) at Duna Arena.

This past summer, she was fourth (58.29) in the 100m backstroke final at the Paris Olympics, 31-100ths shy of a medal.

Masse, 28, has medalled at each world championship and Olympics over nine years.

In the men’s 100 backstroke, Saskatoon’s Blake Tierney lowered the Canadian record to 49.39 in a fifth-place finish.

Javier Acevedo set the previous mark of 49.71 on Nov. 5, 2022 in Indianapolis.

Tierney was fourth through 25 metres but slipped to fifth and stayed there until the finish.

At his Olympic debut in Paris, he qualified for the semifinals and placed 16th overall.

Tierney was also a member of Canada’s men’s 4x100m medley relay and mixed 4x100m medley relay teams that finished fifth.

WATCH | Devin Heroux, Brittany MacLean recap Tuesday’s action from Hungary:

Canada caps 1st day of short course worlds with women’s 4x100m freestyle relay bronze

The quartet of Penny Oleksiak, Ingrid Wilm, Summer McIntosh and Mary-Sophie Harvey won bronze in the women’s 4×100-metre freestyle relay, to cap a four-medal opening day for Canada at the World Aquatics short course championships in Budapest.