Torri Huske Downs 17-18 100 Fly NAG with 56.69; Jumps to #4 American All-time | SwimSwam

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In the final of the women’s 100 meter butterfly at the TAC Titans Premier Invitational, 18-year-old Torri Huske took a huge bite out of the 17-18 National Age Group Record in the same race that 16-year-old Claire Curzan lowered the 15-16 mark.

Swimming side-by-side in lanes 4 and 5, Curzan and Huske were both out in 26.21 and came to the wall in 56.20 and 56.69, respectively, to become the #2 and #4 American performers in the event in history.

Smith, March 2020	Huske, March 2021
27.04	26.21
30.30	30.48
57.34	56.69

Huske’s previous best time, which she swam in November at U.S. Open Richmond, was 57.36. At the time, she was .02 off Regan Smith’s 17-18 record of 57.34 from 2020 Pro Swim Series Des Moines. Huske’s first foray into sub-57 territory took a huge .65 bite out the previous mark.

Huske moved past Swedes Louise Hansson and Sarah Sjostrom to the #4 spot in the world for the current LCM season, behind only Zhang Yufei, Curzan, and Emma McKeon.

2020-2021 LCM Women 100 Fly

ZhangCHN
Yufei

09/29
55.62

2	Claire Curzan	USA	56.61	11/13
3	Emma McKeon	AUS	56.65	03/20
4	Louise Hansson	SWE	56.73	04/09
5	Sarah Sjostrom	SWE	57.34	02/06

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With two months left before U.S. Olympic Trials, Curzan and Huske rank #1 and #2 on the prospective list for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team in the 100 fly.

ALL-TIME TOP U.S. PERFORMERS

1. Dana Vollmer, PC CAL: 55.98 – 2012 Olympic Games 7/27/2012 London
2. Claire Curzan, NC TAC: 56.20 – 2021 TAC Titans Invitational 4/10/2021
3. Kelsi Dahlia (Worrell), KY UN: 56.37 – 2017 World Championships 7/22/2017 Budapest
4. Torri Huske, PV AAC: 56.59 – 2021 TAC Titans Invitational 4/10/2021
5. Christine Magnuson, US TENN: 57.08 – 2008 Olympic Games 8/8/2008 Beijing

 

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