Walsh smashes 100m butterfly short course world record
Gretchen Walsh continued her outstanding form at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Friday as she broke the world record for the 100m butterfly.
Competing in the heats, the 21-year-old American clocked 53.24 seconds, smashing the previous record of 54.05sec set by Canada's Margaret Mac Neil in 2022.
Make that individual world record NUMBER 4 on the week for Gretchen Walsh 😱🔥
— USA Swimming (@USASwimming) December 13, 2024
(and her second that was set in prelims 😳)#AQUABudapest2024 | #OMEGAOfficialTimekeeper pic.twitter.com/z5nW1xH3vr
It was Walsh's fifth record since the start of the week and her fourth in the individual events.
Walsh got the competition off to a flying start, breaking the 50m butterfly record twice in the same day on Tuesday, before helping the American women's relay to win and set the record in the 4x100m freestyle relay.
On Thursday, she also set the fastest 100m medley time in history, bettering her own record.
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