FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Lowers 100 Fly WR To 53.24; Takes Down Maggie MacNeil’s Mark
Gretchen Walsh lowered the 100 fly world document to 53.24 on day 4 of prelims at short-course worlds in Budapest.
The USA swimmer took 0.71 from the earlier commonplace of 54.05 set by Canadian Maggie MacNeil at Melbourne 2022.
It was Walsh’s fourth particular person world document of the meet in as many days.
She set her sights on going by means of the 53-second barrier in tonight’s semis. She stated: “That was my first time ever doing that occasion briefly course metres. Now that I’ve set the place my finest time is, I undoubtedly suppose I can attempt to go 52 tonight.
“I appeared on the document earlier than my swim and I didn’t know the place I might stand, however I feel I broke it by 0.8 which is loopy.”
The Olympic silver medallist added: “I feel I’m going to attempt to be the most effective model of me, each time I swim it
“Stroke rely and kick-out in that race is all the pieces, particularly for me, simply maximising my kicks whereas additionally getting my fingers on the wall,
gliding is de facto essential for my execution of my race methods.
“We’ll see, I don’t know, I want to speak to my coach Todd to see if we’ll make any modifications for tonight. I feel that I’m sooner at night time anyway so I hope that I can get underneath that point.”
