American Walsh broke the world record for swimming in the 100 m butterfly

On May 3, American Gretchen Walsh set a world record for swimming in the 100 m butterfly.

The athlete updated her own world record at the Pro Swim Series tournament in Fort Lauderdale (USA), showing a result of 55.09 seconds. Prior to that, the record was 55.18 seconds, which Walsh set last year.

Gretchen Walsh is 22 years old, she is a two-time champion and two-time silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Paris, as well as the 2023 world champion, Sport-Express clarifies.

Did not meet the standard: which of the Russians will go to the Swimming World Cup in Singapore

The long—term leaders of the national team, Yulia Efimova and Evgeny Rylov, did not qualify for the main starts of the year.

Earlier, on April 12, German athlete Lukas Mertens set a new world record in 400 m freestyle swimming. He showed the result in 3 minutes 39.96 seconds.