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June 29 (Reuters) – Gretchen Walsh broke the ladies’s 50 metres freestyle world report on Sunday on the Sette Colli International Trophy in Rome, reducing a ​mark that had already been crushed this month.

The ‌23-year-old clocked 23.55 seconds, breaking the earlier report of 23.59 set by fellow American Kate Douglass earlier this month at a U.S. Pro Swim Series occasion in Indianapolis.

In May, Walsh bettered her personal 100 ‌metres ​butterfly world report for the third ⁠time in a yr, ⁠posting 54.33 seconds in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

With the 50m freestyle mark, Walsh has now damaged a world report 21 occasions.

She additionally received two relay gold medals at ​the 2024 Paris Olympics and received her first particular person long-course world title in July final yr on the ⁠World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, the place ⁠she took gold within the girls’s 100 ​metres butterfly.

“I would feel a lot of regret if I ​left the time like this on the table and ‌never was able to go (at) it again, so I say the more the merrier,” Walsh informed swimming information outlet SwimSwam after breaking her latest report.

“I’m going to keep ⁠trying to break world records in everything because that’s what it takes to be at the level that I’m at.”

Walsh is ⁠seen as a ‌prime contender for the U.S. heading into ⁠the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, with a number of ​world data ‌and a world championship already to her ​title.

“Maybe some ⁠eyes will be on me more so than ever now and I’m ready for the challenge to handle that pressure especially at a home Olympics, so I’m here, bring it on!” she added.

(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing ​by Thomas Derpinghaus)


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