Gretchen Walsh Breaks First Individual American Record for 50 Free

Gretchen Walsh Units First American Particular person File in 50 Freestyle

20-year-old College of Virginia sophomore, first time in his already rewarded profession Gretchen Walsh is a person American document holder. After swimming in a number of record-setting relays, together with the 200 medley relay on Tuesday night and the 200 free relay earlier in the identical session on Wednesday, Walsh hit 20.83 within the 50 freestyle finals, 20.84 p.c off his Virginia teammate’s earlier highest time. knocked one down. Kate Douglass established finally yr’s NCAA Championships. Walsh additionally led the aforementioned 200 free relay within the early night, breaking Douglass’ ACC match document of 20.95 units.

Beforehand, Walsh was the third quickest participant in historical past with 20.94, swam second behind Douglass within the NCAAs in 2022, however Douglass was sitting outdoors of the person 50 to concentrate on 200 IMs on Wednesday night time (an occasion he swam) the quickest in historical past. second time), Walsh took benefit. Walsh took full benefit of the 15 meters allowed underwater as he burst in entrance of the courtroom, and even in a loaded occasion, Walsh received the race by greater than half a second.

A pair of Louisville Cardinals, podium Gabi Albiero completed second at 21.36 and Christiana Regenauer Third place at 21.58 is sweet sufficient for fourth and seventh, respectively, within the nationwide rankings. NC State Katharine Berkoff (21.73) and North Carolina’s Grace County (21.84) completed simply outdoors the highest three.

Individually, Walsh is the defending NCAA champion in 100 freestyles and was second within the 50 freestyles (behind Douglas) and 100 behind (behind Berkoff) final yr. It would not be shocking if he is chasing extra data in his subsequent occasions this week. He’s at present ranked second within the 100 trailing (49.00) all-time and fourth within the 100 freestyle (46.05).

Results

Occasion 13  Girls 50 Yard Freestyle
=========================================================================
         MEET: # 21.00  2/16/2022 Katherine C Douglass, UVA-VA
         CONF: % 20.84  3/16/2022 Kate Douglass, UVA-VA
         AMER: $ 20.84  3/16/2022 Kate Douglass, UVA-VA
         USOP: & 20.84  3/16/2022 Kate Douglass, UVA-VA
         NCAA: ! 20.84  3/16/2022 Kate Douglass, UVA-VA
     GAC Pool: ^ 21.09  3/18/2021 Kate Douglass, UVA-VA
                 21.66  A
                 22.16  IV22 Invited NCAA 2022
                 22.71  B
    Title           12 months Faculty            Prelims     Finals       Factors 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Last ===                            
 
  1 Walsh, Gretchen  SO UVA                 21.01      20.83percentA       32  
    r:+0.76  10.10        20.83 (10.73)
  2 Albiero, Gabi M  JR Louisville          21.59      21.36 A       28  
    r:+0.64  10.40        21.36 (10.96)
  3 Regenauer, Chri  SR Louisville          21.88      21.58 A       27  
    r:+0.70  10.51        21.58 (11.07)
  4 Berkoff, Kathar  SR NC State            21.68      21.73 IV22    26  
    r:+0.70  10.61        21.73 (11.12)
  5 Countie, Grace   SR UNC                 21.84      21.84 IV22    25  
    r:+0.71  10.47        21.84 (11.37)
  6 Yendell, Sophie  JR PITT                22.00      21.89 IV22    23.5
    r:+0.70  10.44        21.89 (11.45)
  6 Welch, Ella G    FR Louisville          21.98      21.89 IV22    23.5
    r:+0.63  10.64        21.89 (11.25)
  8 Alons, Kylee J   SR NC State            21.93      22.09 IV22    22  
    r:+0.66  10.48        22.09 (11.61)