IRVINE, Calif. --- Kathleen Baker had settled for a first-place tie in the 200-meter backstroke. In the 100 back, she wanted the attention for herself. Setting a world record guaranteed it. The 21-year-old Olympian won in 58.00 seconds at the U.S. national championships on Saturday night, lowering the world mark of 58.10 set by Kylie Masse of Canada at last year's world championships in Hungary. Baker finished second to Masse in Budapest. "I'm sort of on cloud nine right now," said Baker, known for keeping her goal times in her cell phone as a daily reminder. "Right now it's a 58.10 and I just broke that so now I'm going to put 57.99 down," she said, laughing. Baker also took poss...
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