Oh Canada, the drought is over.
Kylie Masse became the first Canadian female swimmer to win a world title, breaking the 100m backstroke world record at the world championships in Budapest on Tuesday.
Masse, 21, clocked 58.10, relegating American Kathleen Baker to silver by .48. Baker took silver and Masse bronze in Rio behind Hungarian Katinka Hosszu.
Baker led after 50 meters in Budapest, but Masse had the fastest second half by .48 to nab the world record by .02. She wiped the longest-standing women’s world record off the books from Great Britain’s Gemma Spofforth at the 2009 Worlds.