US EditionAmerican Walsh improves own 100m butterfly world record for third time in a year
Walsh cut 27-hundredths of a second from her own mark and has now broken the record four times.
- On Saturday, American Gretchen Walsh lowered the women's 100m butterfly world record to 54.33 seconds at the Fort Lauderdale Open in Florida, marking her fourth record-breaking performance in the event.
- Walsh sliced 27-hundredths of a second off her previous world record of 54.60, which she set in the same Florida pool last May at a Pro Swim meeting.
- With this feat, Walsh is now more than one second faster than Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom, the second-fastest woman in event history, and finished more than four seconds ahead of runner-up Claire Curzan.
- The 23-year-old joked about making the world record an "annual thing" in an Instagram post soon after her swim, expressing gratitude for the crowd and pool.
- Elsewhere in Fort Lauderdale, France's Leon Marchand captured two titles to bring his weekly tally to four, while Katie Ledecky won the 800m freestyle, finishing 30 seconds ahead of Katie Grimes.
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American Walsh improves own 100m butterfly world record for third time in a year
Gretchen Walsh bettered her own 100m butterfly world record for the third time in a year as she clocked 54.33 seconds in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the same event where she became the first woman to breach the 55-second mark.
The American ondina completed the test in Fort Lauderdale with a time of 54.33 seconds, improving by 27 hundredths the previous universal plus mark in its power.
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