Walsh gained in 54.33 seconds on the Fort Lauderdale Open in Florida, the place she set her earlier world document of 54.60s.
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American swimmer Gretchen Walsh has stormed to 54.33 seconds within the ladies’s 100-metre butterfly to decrease her personal world document for the fourth time on the Fort Lauderdale Open in Florida, the US.
Walsh on Saturday sliced 27-hundredths of a second off the earlier world document of 54.60 she set in the identical pool at a Professional Swim occasion final Might. She broke the document twice in sooner or later finally 12 months’s assembly and has now damaged the document 4 instances.
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Winner of three world titles in Singapore final 12 months, Walsh is now greater than a second sooner than the second-fastest lady within the historical past of the occasion, with Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom at her better of 55.48 seconds.
She was greater than 4 seconds sooner than world junior document holder Claire Curzan, who clocked 58.44 for silver, and quickest on the planet this season by greater than two seconds.
Walsh now owns greater than a 3rd of the sub-56-second swims within the occasion’s historical past.
The 23-year-old joked about making the world document an “annual factor” as she took to social media quickly after her feat.
“Couldn’t be extra grateful for the WR, the group, and the pool,” she mentioned in a put up on Instagram.
France’s Olympic hero Leon Marchand captured two titles to take his tally for the week to 4.
On Saturday, the four-time Olympic gold medallist gained the 200 metres breaststroke in 2 minutes 9.04 seconds, his finest time of the season, and adopted up with a victory within the 200m particular person medley in 1:57.28.
Hungary’s Hubert Kos, who trains with Marchand beneath former Michael Phelps mentor Bob Bowman in Texas, tied for second within the medley with Carson Foster, each touching in 1:57.95.
Marchand, gearing up for the European Championships beginning in Paris on July 31, had used early meets this season to check himself in much less acquainted occasions.
However in Fort Lauderdale, the 23-year-old has opted for a similar race programme that noticed him win 4 gold medals on the 2024 Paris Video games.
Katie Ledecky opened the day with an 8:12.66 within the ladies’s 800m freestyle to complete greater than 30 seconds forward of 8:40.80 by Katie Grimes.
Ledecky, essentially the most embellished feminine swimmer in historical past with 14 Olympic medals, was simply off her season’s better of 8:08.57 set in March.
