2024 Brief Course World Championships
Day three of the Brief Course World Championships noticed Gretchen Walsh of the USA rip a brand new championship file within the heats of the ladies’s 100m IM.
Racing on this morning’s prelims in Budapest, 21-year-old Walsh scorched a time of 56.06 to say the highest seed by practically a second.
Teammate Kate Douglass was the next-closest swimmer in 56.98 for the 2nd seed whereas Tessa Giele of the Netherlands earned the third seed in 57.87.
As for Walsh, the College of Virginia swimmer’s efficiency overtook the earlier championship file of 56.70 Hungarian Olympic icon Katinka Hosszu placed on the books a decade in the past on the 2014 version of this competitors.
Splits for Walsh’s effort included 11.24/13.73/17.06/14.03 to fall simply .08 exterior of her personal World Document mark of 55.98 logged at a twin meet time trial in October of this yr.
This morning’s time checks in because the #2 efficiency solely behind this WR with the semi-final and remaining rounds but to go.
At these championships, Walsh already established a brand new World Document within the girls’s 50m fly on day one.
Ladies’s 100 IM
World Document: 55.98 — Gretchen Walsh (USA), 2024
World Junior Document: 57.59 – Anastasiya Shkurdai (BLR)- 2020
World Championship Document: 56.70 — Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2014
2022 World Champion: Marrit Steenbergen (NED)— 57.53
High 16 Qualifiers:
Gretchen Walsh (USA)- 56.06 **New Championship Document**
Kate Douglass (USA)- 56.98
Tessa Giele (NED)- 57.87
Mary-Sophie Harvey (CAN)- 58.21
Rebecca Meder (RSA)- 58.44
Beryl Gastaldello (FRA)- 58.58
Diana Petkova (BUL)- 58.79
Ellen Walshe (IRL)- 58.85
Sydney Pickrem (CAN)- 58.92
Tamara Potocka (SVK)- 58.95
Louise Hansson (SWE)- 59.02
Helena Gasson (NZL)- 59.14
Barbora Janickova (CZE)- 59.25
Huiyu Zheng (CHN)- 59.58
Fernanda Gomes Celidonio (BRA)- 59.78
Anastasiya Kuliashova (NAA)- 59.82
