Extremely Swim Swimmer of the Month is a recurring SwimSwam characteristic shedding gentle on a U.S.-based swimmer who has confirmed themselves over the previous month. As with every merchandise of recognition, Swimmer of the Month is a subjective train meant to focus on one athlete whose work holds noteworthy context – maybe a swimmer who was visibly outperforming different swimmers over the month, or one whose accomplishments slipped via the cracks amongst different high-profile swims. In case your favourite athlete wasn’t chosen, be happy to respectfully acknowledge them in our remark part.
Gretchen Walsh‘s historic efficiency on the Brief Course World Championships makes her the clear-cut Extremely Swimmer of the Month for December.
After a record-setting quick course meter debut in October, Walsh rewrote the ladies’s SCM world information over a six-day stretch in Budapest.
The 21-year-old set a complete of 11 world information throughout six occasions, successful seven gold medals on the championships.
Walsh broke the world document 3 times within the girls’s 100 fly, twice in every of the ladies’s 50 free, 50 fly and 100 IM, and added two extra all-time information as a member of the U.S. girls’s 4×100 free and 4×100 medley relay.
Having received gold in all six of these races, she added a seventh within the girls’s 100 free, clocking 50.31 for the second-fastest swim ever, simply six one-hundredths shy of the world document held by Cate Campbell (50.25).
Under, discover a full record of Walsh’s world document swims and the place the information stand now versus the place they have been getting into Brief Course Worlds (as initially seen in The Gretchen File article).
World Report Swims – 11
The place It Began vs The place It Is Now
| Occasion | World Report Coming In | New WR | Enchancment |
| 50 free | 22.93 | 22.83 | 0.10 (0.44%) |
| 50 fly | 24.38 | 23.94 | 0.44 (1.80%) |
| 100 fly | 54.05 | 52.71 | 1.34 (2.48%) |
| 100 IM | 55.98 | 55.11 | 0.87 (1.55%) |
| 4×100 free relay | 3:25.43 | 3:25.01 | 0.42 (0.20%) |
| 4×100 medley relay | 3:44.35 | 3:40.41 | 3.94 (1.63%) |
Walsh’s gold medal haul ranks #2 all-time, as American Olivia Smoliga claimed eight world titles on the 2018 SC World Championships in Hangzhou.
Walsh was named Swimmer of the Meet after one of many best performances in historical past. With all the world information including as much as go together with her seven gold medals, she walked away with a staggering $290K in prize cash.
Under, discover Walsh’s full program from Brief Course Worlds, which featured 18 swims over six days.
- Day 1 – December 10
- Ladies’s 50 fly prelims – 24.02 (WR)
- Ladies’s 4×100 free relay prelims – 3:31.16 /50.51 anchor
- Ladies’s 50 fly semi-finals – 23.94 (WR)
- Ladies’s 4×100 free relay last – 3:25.01 (WR) / 50.67 anchor
- Day 2 – December 11
- Ladies’s 100 free prelims – 51.64
- Ladies’s 50 fly last – 24.01
- Ladies’s 100 free semi-finals – 50.49 (AR/CR)
- Day 3 – December 12
- Ladies’s 100 IM prelims – 56.06 (CR)
- Ladies’s 100 free last – 50.31 (AR/CR)
- Ladies’s 100 IM semi-finals – 55.71 (WR)
- Day 4 – December 13
- Ladies’s 100 fly prelims – 53.24 (WR)
- Ladies’s 100 IM last – 55.11 (WR)
- Ladies’s 100 fly semi-finals – 52.87 (WR)
- Day 5 – December 14
- Ladies’s 50 free prelims – 23.02 (CR/AR)
- Ladies’s 100 fly last – 52.71 (WR)
- Ladies’s 50 free semi-finals – 22.87 (WR)
- Day 6 – December 15
- Ladies’s 50 free last – 22.83 WR)
- Ladies’s 4×100 medley relay last – 3:40.41 (WR) / 52.84 fly cut up
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