That sounds like a perfect dress rehearsal for the Olympics, but it’s not enough for a ticket to Paris: Gretchen Walsh has a World record over 100 meters butterfly The 21-year-old swam a time of 55.18 seconds.
Walsh beat the previous record of Sarah Sjostrom by three tenths of a second. The Swede set her record of 55.48 seconds at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
“I definitely felt it. I thought I was going to die and I didn’t know I was going that fast,” Walsh said.
Tough competition for the Olympics
To qualify as one of the two first-place finishers over this distance for the Games next month in Paris To qualify, the swimmer from the University of Virginia still has to strong competition out of the way.
In the final on Monday night, Torri Huske, Regan Smith and Claire Curzan are all waiting Medalists from Tokyo 2020.