Gretchen Walsh lowers own 100m butterfly world record for fourth time

Walsh won successful 54.33 seconds astatine the Fort Lauderdale Open successful Florida, wherever she acceptable her erstwhile satellite grounds of 54.60s.

American swimmer Gretchen Walsh has stormed to 54.33 seconds successful the women’s 100-metre butterfly to little her ain satellite grounds for the 4th clip astatine the Fort Lauderdale Open successful Florida, the United States.

Walsh connected Saturday sliced 27-hundredths of a 2nd disconnected the erstwhile satellite grounds of 54.60 she acceptable successful the aforesaid excavation astatine a Pro Swim lawsuit past May. She broke the grounds doubly successful 1 time astatine past year’s gathering and has present breached the grounds 4 times.

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Winner of 3 satellite titles successful Singapore past year, Walsh is present much than a 2nd faster than the second-fastest pistillate successful the past of the event, with Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom astatine her champion of 55.48 seconds.

She was much than 4 seconds faster than satellite inferior grounds holder Claire Curzan, who clocked 58.44 for silver, and fastest successful the satellite this play by much than 2 seconds.

Walsh present owns much than a 3rd of the sub-56-second swims successful the event’s history.

The 23-year-old joked astir making the satellite grounds an “annual thing” arsenic she took to societal media soon aft her feat.

“Could not beryllium much grateful for the WR, the crowd, and the pool,” she said successful a station connected Instagram.

France’s Olympic leader Leon Marchand captured 2 titles to instrumentality his tally for the week to four.

On Saturday, the four-time Olympic golden medallist won the 200 metres breaststroke successful 2 minutes 9.04 seconds, his champion clip of the season, and followed up with a triumph successful the 200m idiosyncratic medley successful 1:57.28.

Hungary’s Hubert Kos, who trains with Marchand nether erstwhile Michael Phelps mentor Bob Bowman successful Texas, tied for 2nd successful the medley with Carson Foster, some touching successful 1:57.95.

Marchand, gearing up for the European Championships starting successful Paris connected July 31, had utilized aboriginal meets this play to trial himself successful little acquainted events.

But successful Fort Lauderdale, the 23-year-old has opted for the aforesaid contention programme that saw him triumph 4 golden medals astatine the 2024 Paris Games.

Katie Ledecky opened the time with an 8:12.66 successful the women’s 800m freestyle to decorativeness much than 30 seconds up of 8:40.80 by Katie Grimes.

Ledecky, the astir decorated pistillate swimmer successful past with 14 Olympic medals, was conscionable disconnected her season’s champion of 8:08.57 acceptable successful March.