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Gretchen Walsh Shatters 100 IM World File In 55.98, First Swimmer Sub-56

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Florida vs. Virginia

  • October 18, 2024
  • Charlottesville, Virginia
  • 25 Meters (SCM)
  • Outcomes on Meet Cell: “Virginia vs Florida”
  • Full Meet Recap

After setting three American Information in the course of the first hour of racing throughout Virginia’s quick course meter twin meet with Florida, Gretchen Walsh was removed from finished.

Competing in a 100 IM time trial, Walsh rocketed to a time of 55.98, demolishing the world report of 56.51 set by Katinka Hosszu again in 2017.

Walsh is the primary swimmer in historical past below 56 seconds, and breaks the hours-old American File of 56.99 set by Kate Douglass earlier on Friday on the Shanghai cease of the World Cup.

It’s apparent Walsh is a greater fly/again sprinter than Hosszu and Douglass when evaluating their splits, as Walsh was nine-tenths away from Hosszu on the 50 with a scintillating opening of 25.07, whereas she was practically two seconds head of Douglass.

Douglass got here again sooner than anybody, leaning on her breaststroke prowess, however the hole created by Walsh on the opening 50 was sufficient to place her greater than half a second away from the world report and over a second away from the American File.

Cut up Comparability

Hosszu, Previous WR Douglass, Previous AR Walsh, New WR
25.97 26.96 25.07
56.51 (30.54) 56.99 (30.03) 55.98 (30.91)

All-Time Performers, Ladies’s 100 IM (SCM)

  1. Gretchen Walsh, USA – 55.98
  2. Katinka Hosszu, Hungary – 56.51
  3. Kate Douglass, USA – 56.99
  4. Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden – 57.10
  5. Beryl Gastaldello, France – 57.30
  6. Charlotte Bonnet, France – 57.47
  7. (TIE) Alicia Coutts, Australia/Marrit Steenbergen, Netherlands – 57.53
  8. (TIE) Mariia Kameneva, Russia/Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Nice Britain/Anastasiya Shkurdai, Belarus – 57.59

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Earlier this month, Walsh recorded the fourth-fastest 100 IM of all-time in brief course yards (52.63), with Douglass proudly owning the quickest time ever at 51.97.

If Walsh’s swim is ratified and acknowledged by World Aquatics, it would qualify her to swim the 100 IM on the Brief Course World Championships, which she’s scheduled to contest in December.

Douglass can also be anticipated to race the 100 IM after registering an official time on Friday in Shanghai.

When the U.S. introduced its roster for the championships final week, there have been no entrants within the 100 IM as nobody had posted a qualifying time. Assuming it’s Walsh and Douglass representing the U.S. within the occasion in Budapest, the Individuals will greater than seemingly be a 1-2 end.

Earlier within the twin meet with Florida, Walsh set American Information within the 50 free (23.10), 50 again (25.37) and 100 again (54.89), rating t-4th, third and t-2nd all-time.

In a single afternoon, she did some critical injury on the SCM report books with extra to return later this 12 months in Budapest.

Occasion WR (Pre-UVA/FLORIDA) AR (Pre-UVA/FLORIDA) Walsh @ UVA/FLORIDA
50 free 22.93 (Kromowidjojo) 23.44 (Weitzeil) 23.10
50 again 25.25 (MacNeil) 25.54 (Curzan) 25.37
100 again 54.56 (McKeown) 55.04 (Smoliga) 54.89
100 IM 56.51 (Hosszu) 56.99 (Douglass) 55.98

In keeping with USA Swimming’s database, Walsh has by no means raced SCM in an official meet till at the moment.

Discover the total reside recap of the twin meet right here.



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