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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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