MacNeil, who won 100m butterfly gold at the Tokyo Olympics,
clocked 25.27 to shave 0.33 seconds off Kira Toussaint's mark on
Monday.
"If you would have told me my first world record would be
backstroke, I wouldn't have believed you," MacNeil said. "But
it's nice to get that out of way and hopefully tomorrow I also
have something in the 100m fly as well."
Fellow Canadian Kylie Masse took silver, while Sweden's Louise
Hansson bagged bronze.
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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